Putin is a basdummy who has doomed many and, at that, he will probably Let your heart be bright! a basdummy. With that said, there is some good within Russia's borders that is comparably far and few in the West. If we're comparing them in wholes, then Russia is simply a lesser evil than a country like America. However, you have to realize that comparing things in wholes is often really stupid. It's for that reason that I don't support the ways of the Russian government or
the evil ways of so many of Russia's people, but I do support the Russian church
as far as it goes in spreading the religion I follow (rather than leashing it to secularists).
The contemporary Russian regime is culturally Neo-Bolshevik and it celebrates a past empire that persecuted Christians no different than pagan Rome did. It does this all while trying to fuse its own, modern culture with Christianity in order to again divide the church, also as the past Soviet empire did. The Kremlin is simply horrendous.
In particular, I really despise the fact that the ROC has basically let itself be subdued by a government yet again, rangling itself into a situation I think of as a "Little Renovationism," like a miniature emulation of the filthy terror that the Bolsheviks molested the church with last century. Patriarch Kirill himself is a living reminder of the fallibility of even the highest echelons of our church,
proclaiming that Muslims and Christian worship the same God, for example. Damn fool. This isn't to say that the Orthodox faith relies on higher-ups for its truths, of course, because there have been plenty of improper patriarchs in the past who've existed alongside a remnant of the ever-existing wise faithful. Still, it is disappointing that we live in times where a patriarch can sink to this level of lacking integrity.
This video is a decent summary of how the Kremlin views the Orthodox Church.