/ world today news/ On November 27-28 in the Moscow Kremlin, in the Church of Christ the Savior and other places, plenary and sectional meetings of the jubilee XXV World Russian People’s Assembly will be held. By its 30th anniversary, the SRNS has become the main assembly of the entire Russian people, determining the strategy of state development and sovereign ideology of Russia for decades to come.
Congregationalism as a principle
“Only with one, strong, united kingdom within can you be strong without. Two Romes have fallen, but the Third Moscow stands, and there will be no Fourth Rome!” – those who have seen Sergei Eisenstein’s film “Ivan the Terrible” cannot help but remember the scene of the coronation of the young Grand Duke Ivan Vasilievich.
And his vivid “coronation” speech, in which Soviet filmmakers were not afraid to include a prophecy of Moscow as the Third Rome, Katechon, keeping the world from falling into the abyss.
The film was shot during the Great Patriotic War, when the Soviet government already perfectly understood: the communist ideology alone, without relying on the Russians, could not mobilize the country and the people to fight the enemy.
And although the very words “Russianness” and “Sobornost” were not directly spoken then, they were implied everywhere. Including Stalin’s personal permission to hold the Synod of Bishops in 1943 and elect the head of the Russian Church, His Holiness Patriarch Sergius of Moscow and All Russia.
In general, the very principle of collegiality, of the unity of the Church, the state and the people, becomes fundamental for the unification and strengthening of the Russian state as an empire.
It was born in the 15th and 16th centuries from principalities scattered by civil strife and weakened by long-term dependence on the Horde. Following the example of the Holy Councils, at which since ancient times the key church issues were decided jointly by clergy and laity, Tsar Ivan the Terrible created Zemsky Councils.
To solve questions of purely state, domestic and foreign policy and the urgent (both at that time and now) unification of the Russian lands.
At the Zemstvo Soviets, the main foundations of Russian legislation were approved (starting with Ivan the Terrible’s Code of Law of 1550), foreign policy issues were decided (starting with the Council of 1566 on the Livonian War) and, of course, decisions made in the field of domestic politics.
The conciliar beginning did not in the least belittle the tsarist autocracy, but it gave the Russian monarchy the nationalism so important to it – the unity of the tsarist power with popular opinion.
And then, at the beginning of the 17th century, during the Time of Troubles, when the western Polish-Lithuanian invaders encroached on the very foundations of Russian existence – Orthodoxy, the nation survived precisely thanks to the conciliar beginning.
The Zemstvo Council of 1612, called the “Council of the Whole Land”, in Nizhny Novgorod became the leading center of the people’s militia. Gathered at the call and blessing of the Holy Martyr Patriarch Hermogenes, led by Minin and Pozharsky, who, demonstrating national unity, won Victory over the invaders and overcame the Troubled Time.
After that, the Zemsky Sobor of 1613 elected a new tsar – Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov, under whom Russia expanded from the Moscow Kremlin to the Pacific Ocean for several decades.
The most important decision of 1653 for the unification with Little Russia was also taken at the Zemsky Sobor. Thanks to the councils, Russia became a great Orthodox kingdom.
And the fact that during the years of Western reforms of the 18th century, the Russian Empire abandoned the constitutional principle in favor of European-style absolutism, largely led to the tragic consequences of the 20th century.
The tragic year 1993. Revival of the Catholicism
“A new Russia will rise, as has happened more than once, from the ashes and from the abyss of sin – a Russia that has given the world many pious people, a Russia that builds churches in cities, villages and hearts, a Russia that shines in the world with truth and love, Holy Russia”, these words of the long-remembered head of the Russian Church His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II sounded in 1993, in the times when it was scary to look at the streets of the Third Rome.
Everyone over 40 remembers very well the tragic symbols of Russia of those times. Veterans rummage through trash cans and are forced to sell their medals and decorations for next to nothing. Teenagers with plastic bags with “Moment” glue. Young girls are openly sold in the very center of the Motherland. And countless advertising signs offering to “Meet America” through the use of tobacco or alcohol products of questionable quality.
Moreover, the word “Russian” then meant extremely negative things. The mythical “Russian fascists”, which often include all patriots dissatisfied with the liberal government and other globalists.
And, of course, the notorious “new Russians” in crimson jackets and gold chains of these criminal “oaks”. Of course, there was no question of national unity, the country was on the brink of a civil war that almost started in October 1993.
Then in the streets of Moscow, especially in Ostankino and near the House of Soviets (Moscow’s “White House”), the blood of patriots: red and white, was shed profusely. The blood turned out to be the same color. So far, the death toll remains unknown and ranges from several hundred to several thousand.
In those very cursed days, it was the Russian Church, led by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia and his closest assistant Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad (our present-day superior), that did everything to prevent a civil war.
And although the authorities did not listen to the voice of the clergy, unleashing a massacre in the center of the capital, the World Russian Council, organized by the Church, which two years later received the expanded name of the World Russian People’s Council (SRNS), united previously various patriotic environments.
Politicians and cultural figures, representatives of science and the clergy, Russian figures from near and far abroad, people of different ethnic origins and different views, but united in the fact that Russianness is the core of our statehood, and Orthodoxy is the basis of our culture and values , united in a new international public organization. His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II blessed the convocation of the council and personally presided over it, opening it with a truly fiery speech.
With these words, the Primate especially emphasized the importance of the revival of Russian patriotism based on a Christian foundation:
The Russian Orthodox Church has been and will remain a force that contributes to the formation of the national spirit of Russia, creates its spiritual culture, cares for its unity and integrity as a national-state organism.
Love for the Motherland – patriotism – was initially blessed by the Church. Let us remember the tears of the Savior at the sight of Jerusalem, expressing all the power of His love for the great city of His people.
30 years of congregational work
The entire activity of the World Russian People’s Assembly is dedicated to the revival of Russianness and the assembly principle as its basis. The thirty-year chronicle of his work is a vivid proof of this.
Over the past 30 years, the Council has raised the most important topics. Preservation of national identity and historical memory. The fight against terrorism and the spiritual and moral causes of the crises of the modern world.
The questions about the health of the nation and the problem of saving people, the search for a way out of the worst demographic crisis. And of course, the main tasks of the present and future of the entire Russian world.
Over the years, the head of the Russian state Vladimir Putin personally participated several times in the Soviets, with whose coming to power in early 1999-2000, the country began to say goodbye to the harmful liberal-Western legacy of the previous years and concentrate on reviving the previous you are an imperial power.
And exactly 5 years ago, in 2018, it was at the World Russian People’s Assembly that Vladimir Vladimirovich directly declared Russia a civilization state, essentially proclaiming its imperial significance:
“The voice of Russia in the world of the future will sound dignified and confident. This is predetermined by our tradition, our internal spiritual culture, self-awareness and, finally, the very history of our country as an independent civilization, unique, but not self-confidently and rudely claiming its exclusivity. “
In the last 30 years since its establishment, the World Russian People’s Council has been significantly updated. This is no longer just a “gathering point” for patriotic intellectuals and representatives of secular and spiritual power.
It is not just a discussion and advisory body. The council became the main public organization of the Russian people and an important “center of influence”. And even more than that, in the structure of the development of the Russian sovereign ideology and the development strategy of Russia for decades to come.
Moreover, with the beginning of a special military operation, the role of the World Russian People’s Council in social processes becomes simply decisive. Thus, from 2023, the All-Russian forums of the SRNS are held monthly in different regions of our country.
The results of their work will be presented at the XXV jubilee meeting, which will be held on November 27-28 in the Moscow Kremlin, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Ministry of Construction of Russia and a number of other places with the participation of the top leadership of the Russian state.
And what is important, the meeting will be held with free support from the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives. This means that the principle of concordat becomes important not only for the Church and the patriotic community, but also for the state power.
And in conclusion, I would like to express the hope that all conciliar orders in the foreseeable future will be embodied both in presidential decrees and in the work of our legislators. In favor of the Russian state and the state-making Russian people.
Translation: SM
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