This is a hopelessly biased article (with the connection to Canada a bit fabricated). There are multiple articles across the web about this that a more balanced and nuanced.

Leonid Ragozin condemned Russia aggression against Ukraine, but also spread pro-Kremlin narratives. Ragozin was heavily criticized, for example, when he argued that the Kremlin felt compelled to use “brute force” in response to Western encroachment on its sphere of influence.

In an August column for The American Conservative, for example, Ragozin argued that ordinary Russians perceive greater threats from Western nations than from their own government.

You'll easily find very good reports about this case that are more revealing. This piece is just rage-bait producing content to serve a particular community imo.