"Lowercasing ‘Russia’ and ‘Moscow’ in unofficial documents will no longer be considered a mistake." Sounds a bit childish to me. Proper names are proper names,

"Lowercasing ‘Russia’ and ‘Moscow’ in unofficial documents will no longer be considered a mistake." Sounds a bit childish to me. Proper names are proper names, regardless of your view of the entity. For example, writing "Stalin" instead of "stalin" just recognizes that "Stalin" was someone's name, not that one has any respect for that person.