I don't know how serious Crybran was being with the Putin money bit to be honest.
My impression of him is he is one of those crazy Bulgarian pan-slavism people.
Whats telling to me is that for all his anti-Americanism and anti-EUism, his most vitriolic ire is aimed at Turks, Muslims and Neighbors of Bulgaria who aren't Russia. He's pretty much text book when it comes to his anti-American and anti-EU tropes. The other stuff though? It almost seems like he enjoys saying it.