The time when we live makes us define our personnal position in this continually changing world. Young and middle-aged people start to consider the eternal questions of life and death, good and justice, conscious and humanity. Living in the Soviet empire we did not notice how important the sense of community and social protection was, provided by the power of the State and its firm boundaries. The main reasons for the dissolution of this great state were probably linked with economical problems and situation of the world of politics. However the fact that we were living in a country where the belief in God had been called an obsolete superstition cannot be insignificant. The “mass atheism” of Soviet people is one of the most important reasons for total confusion in front of today’s changes. In this difficult period of the destruction of former ideals, when we can but accept new social economical conditions, we obviously need a great and serious idea that could unite all the citizens of new Russia. We don’t have to invent something new, we only have to consider whether Russia had already had such an idea. Russia (whatever was the name) has existed for long centuries as the biggest state in the world which citizens had common goals. The main pivot of Russian state, the guarantee of its prosperity is the Orthodox Church. This is a universal religion that stands over ethnic and social differences. Christianity reconciles everybody and gives a belief in truth, justice and intelligence. Russia is the only country in the world where there were no religious conflicts in spite of the exitence of numerous confessions. The thing is that the freedom of conscience is inalienable from the Orthodox Church.
To achieve any results we need joint efforts of like-minded people having a common ideological programm. We need a party. In January 1997 a new party was registered on initiative of parishioners of the Church of Assumption at Malaya Okhta where I am a chairman: it was called the Party for the Orthodox Revival. The party’s aims are defined in it’s programm: “The Orthodox Revival means the revival of the Orthodox Christianity as a state idea, uniting Russian people over ethnic and social barriers. The Orthodox Christianity is a universal religion that doesn’t depend on ethnic questions. The Orthodox Christianity is preser ved as a world religion, in particular owing to the fact that it remains Russian religion for one thousand years.” One of the most important aims of the Party is the calling of Zemsky Sobor, the highest national representative power that will establish, thanks to its indisputable authority, the basis of the Russian State: an Orthodox constitutional monarchy.
(V. Kovalevsky)
To achieve any results we need joint efforts of like-minded people having a common ideological programm. We need a party. In January 1997 a new party was registered on initiative of parishioners of the Church of Assumption at Malaya Okhta where I am a chairman: it was called the Party for the Orthodox Revival. The party’s aims are defined in it’s programm: “The Orthodox Revival means the revival of the Orthodox Christianity as a state idea, uniting Russian people over ethnic and social barriers. The Orthodox Christianity is a universal religion that doesn’t depend on ethnic questions. The Orthodox Christianity is preser ved as a world religion, in particular owing to the fact that it remains Russian religion for one thousand years.” One of the most important aims of the Party is the calling of Zemsky Sobor, the highest national representative power that will establish, thanks to its indisputable authority, the basis of the Russian State: an Orthodox constitutional monarchy.
(V. Kovalevsky)
