Caesar demanded to be worshiped. The word “Tsar” comes from the word Caesar. We see in Putin the desire to be a modern day Tsar with all the power of life and death. It’s clear too that he wants to be worshiped, like the narcissist that he and Obama both are. It appears that we have a faction here that want to worship Putin as well, not Christ. They sanction his violence and praise his hubris and his glorying in war and power.
There is a reason for this, Putin is percieved as keeping the Muslims at bay.
But don’t you see? Vladimir is SO much better at playing “Tsar” (or “Czar”) than the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut, it is the throwing of live grenades against flipping Tiddly-Winks back.
The Russian Orthodox Church will be tolerated, so long as that rather uncomfortable prohibition against having any other gods before the Almighty Creator is not being actively enforced.