It seems Putin sees religion and traditional values as a way to prop birth rate, so in this regard we are likely to diverge more.
In terms of control of speech on the internet it seems that West is catching up to Russia.
That's just what came to mind first.
My sense of the control of speech is that in the West we don't really have freedom of speech; culturally everyone is offended of different opinions and politically the West censors via finance rather than official controls. You won't go to jail, but you will lose your job, so if you don't have money...you don't have speech. It's a more elegant form of control since it costs less and is less overt. In any case, indoctrination seems to be the aim of the game more than speech; who cares if the truth is available if no one believes it. Admittedly that's just my own observations of Australia (where I live), which never had explicit freedom of speech legal protections.
How do Russians feel about the hatred that has come out of the West over the last two years, particularly from Europe/Poland (since that's my background)?
On the other hand, some Russians distinguish between Western governments and people, and understand that most people are fooled by propaganda and are not genuine Russophobes.
I get the sense that Russia is on the up whilst the West is on the decline but I've never been to Russia and don't speak the language.