"Refuses to confront" means colluding with the enemy. The Orthodox Church is the ONLY approved state church in Russia and they are serious about eliminating protestant evangelical infiltration from the decadent degenerate west. Lots of top Russian brass are secret protestants. There never was a protestant revolution in Russia and looks like there will never be one either. Only a coup by top brass can change this. The news writers of the west were raised in secular humanist schools and are devoid of knowledge of religion save for their imprinted bias that all religion is bogus, god is a myth and how can anyone take religion seriously. That is why they don't report the real news, they cant see the it due to liberal bias.
Why is Putin cracking down on nonorthodox sects like Baptists and Jehova's Witnesses and Assemblies of God? The orthodox church wants this to further their consolidation. They want to keep their monopoly on God - Bog - in Russia.