The problem with the "beat-up" is that there are set rules governing number of passes, distance and minimum altitudes for these situations. As far as I know, they were agreed 40 years ago and haven't changed since. In the case of this event, you can clearly see that those stand-off minima and direction of approach were completely ignored, and neither were the Russians monitoring Guard as they are obliged to do.
As a former MPA pilot, used to gathering int on non NATO warships on a daily basis, you would be in for a proper bollocking if you decided to carry out several passes of that nature. I imagine the Russian crews have probably been giving their boss a darned good listening to back at base, while the official line from the Kremlin remains that it was all perfectly legal.