Vladislav Surkov (Wikipedia), the Kremlin's chief ideologist, has written an essay in praise of Joan Miro. Surkov's early access to Western Modernism seems to have echoed that of Soviet artists (Russkii Pioner, reproduced by v_orlov):

I was twelve years old when, in the impoverished library of a remote Russian town, by chance I came across a scraggy book with the impudent title Criticism of Modernist Tendencies in Western Visual Art or something similar.

The article is not devoid of ideology. He characterises Miro as a "naive seeker after God", a kind of Orthodox ascetic.