Daily Journal:

Formally speaking, Patriarch Kirill can be understood in different ways. One may not see a call not to go to demonstrations, but only regret that “Orthodox people do not know how to go to demonstrations.” And I think there is such a note of regret in the patriarch’s speech: how good it would be if those hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Orthodox Christians who stood at the belt of the Virgin Mary would go out to demonstrate in support of the patriarch’s ideas...
But rather, this is precisely a call not to go to rallies, not to listen to the “piercing word,” that is, not to be seduced by the revolution. It is not said what the patriarch’s attitude in this case is to the pro-rather than anti-Putin rally.
But in general, everything is clear: the leader of the Church, as before, calls for avoiding revolutions and political conflicts in general, that is, he acts as a peacemaker, but non-conflict, on the other hand, is always beneficial to the existing government. As doubts gradually weaken that the existing political regime will survive the current crisis, the patriarch is gradually shifting the balance of his statements in favor of the authorities.