Moscow is talking about a third among equals it's deserved for practically 1000 years, when 75% of the Orthodox world is in its direct jurisdiction.
The "3rd Rome" thinking YOU are reffering to was the thinking excommunicated with the Old Beleivers.
BTW Let's be perfectly honest.
The result with Estonia had less to do with a major Orthodox backing of the EP than it did mistrust for Post Soviet patriarch.
With continued ignoring of canon and down right defiance of it in the EP. And the coninued re-communion of the Slavic churches it's unlikely this trend will continue. Folks simply will not watch an Orthodox patriarch flout canon like he's the Bishop of Rome and not speak up.
"Folks simply will not watch an Orthodox patriarch flout canon like he's the Bishop of Rome and not speak up."
Perhaps; that's the job of the People of God. The GOA did exactly that here within the past 10 years. And it looks like the assembled representatives gave a similar slap to Moscow at Belgrade.
Don't ever trust hierarchs, Kawaii, no matter what language they speak. The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.