1. he keeps the homo-degeneracy out of Russia

That is true. But he could not do otherwise. Orthodox Christianity beliefs among people and just traditional value and meaning of family is still have weight. Once he do something gay-tolerant, he will completely lose all ratings.

2. he won't accept refugees;

That is not true. Russia is constantly invaded by people with alien values and muslim religion from Middle Asia countries. Also, nearly all food trade is seized by muslims from Caucasus. Formally they are citizens of Russian Federation, but they bring their weird traditions and behaviour to Russian regions. All that etnicities have high birth rate, deny any acceptance of Russian culture and way of life and cause a lot of problems. Officials even don't hide that they welcome that etnicity replacement. All resistance was violently suppressed by authority (check Kondopoga event, f.e.) under the flags of "tolerance" and "multietnicity".

3. Western Europe still needs a counter balance

Russian Federation could not be a counterweight to Western Europe.

First of all, Russians are completely European people. Just because of same roots, culture, religion, outlook, habits, etc. Being in Europe, I always was taken as Polish or, say German, depending on the country. So the most Russians too. There could be only artificial division, like it was many times in the past. And even after worst wars, the things always quickly return to the normal. You could check it from the Middle Ages. Really, Russians have nothing against Europeans and vice versa. Yes, we are not exactly the same, but the real differences is very tiny, mostly in some specific traditions.

Second is fact that most wealth our authorities stole from Russians is hidden on the West. They just can't counter balance with the countries where all their rich villas and bank accounts with billions euros/dollars reside.