For many years, in many speeches, in the open.
If someone told me when I was a kid that the President of Russia was more an open champion for Western Civilization and Christianity than the US President, well, we would have called him retarded, I guess.
What a world we live in.
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/russian-president-putin-defends-christian-culture-western-values-condemns-political#tools-share