Oh, really? This is the same Russian Orthodox Church that struggled to survive under murderous atheistic Communism for more than six decades? They're going to ally with a guy you say is pushing Communism and new (Communist) Soviet Union?
Get real, and quit unjustly demonizing Christian clerics because you don't like Putin.
The Church deals with Putin because he's not anti God, anti Christian or anti Jew.
Putin is pro Russia, interestingly, so is the Russian Orthodox Church.
And because he's not pro-individual rights.
And he has balls
Looks good bare chested to be old
Loves young girls
Scares the shit out of Islamic separatists
Broke up the appartchik oy vey in name only Mafia and replaced it with loyalists of his own
And is willing to preserve Russian culture.....he gets it
While we let ours be destroyed before our eyes
You could do worse for a nationalist would be autocrat
He will parole them in 6 months or less.....