It is. Plus the little known fact that Russian stubbornness is a thing to behold. Like an obstinate and determined mule, once they get their mind set to something.
Dan 5:5-65 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.6 His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way.
NIV
http://sfpride.org/window.html?ifr=photos/
acting out like this at the Olympics is sure to change a few Russian hearts and minds
NOT
That is what my Swedish wife of 57 years tells me.