Lots of doomerisms on this thread. One must remember what we are actually talking about in regards to Russia.
Before you go out waving the Russian flag to own the Libs, you should remember what kind of a country we are talking about. Russia is a one-party dictatorship run by an oligarchic elite that considers their own people no better than cattle to the exploited for their own benefit. This elite was born at a time where every school taught the Marxist maxim of "religion is the opium of the masses". They just turned that around and are using a faux-traditional doctrine to keep their own population in line.
In terms of tyranny, this is no different from the globohomo wokeness of the West, it's just imposed on the people from a pseudo-traditionalist angle, where worshipping the state is the greatest virtue imaginable. The average Russian accepts this because he has been indoctrinated from birth to believe that everything the state does is right and everything one sees in the state-owned news is the whole truth. He doesn't have to think about politics, because the state does that for him. It's only when he personally gets his business forcefully foreclosed upon because a fat oligarch with a government job wants it for himself that he starts to reconsider his worldview.
The Russian government speaks a lot about the oppression of Russians and the right of self-determination for peoples, but their own country bans all types of separatism by imposing lengthy prison sentences for talking about separating from Russia, even incidentally. Nowhere in the world is the Russian more oppressed than in Russia,
