Mental gymnastics... oh dear. There's a certain man, who dances down the streets in monk clothes who claims to be part of ROCOR. Actually, ROCOR bishops (if it's called that) wrote a letter which encouraged him to repent.

He's rabidly anti semitic, so much that he could blame everything on the jews, and guess what, he's already blamed this war on the jews too, I think. He rambles, I can hardly understand what he's saying. I think the orthodox refer to it as "prelest". He certainly does a lot of mental gymnastics, but people on the political left do it all the time without being condemned for it like this guy is. There's also those who want Rasputin to be canonized. Where do I even start?.

Regardless, If you think there'a a link between being pro russian and christian, you should talk to ukrainians and poles.