Stop reading these crappy Russian financed “news outlets”. In 1999-2008 their economy was growing due to unusually high prices of natural resources, once that's over they are collapsing. They hardly export anything else. There's been totally no progress in building up any real economy and their “religion” is ROC - KGB “church”, basically government's department of religion.
Question is, does it preach family and love your neighbor or harems and kill your infidel neighbors. Or as in the EU, where they preach nothing of value. Or as in the US, we are preached sodomy.
Some times the truth is hard to accept when things have changed so fast here in the last 30 years.