I have had a sneaking suspicion that the long US State Department Neocon effort to bring down Russia stems largely from Putin’s announcement some years ago that Russia is a Christian country.
(I’m not defending Putin or even saying he’s corect, but that statement seemed to be the proverbial waving a red shirt in front of a bull, at least to the US governing elites.)
Russia isn’t a Christian country, no one attends church there and the state church is a part of the government with the government building empty churches for it and the state church serves and works with the government and the government suppresses and harasses Christians outside of that government religion such as Catholics and Protestants, the people do their birth formalities and marriage formalities in the government church but don’t actually do Christianity.