Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Patriarch Kirill: Russia Must Have Basic Values; Says Deny Political Power to Dissenters of Values

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said today (December 28, 2010) that authorities and society in Russia need to agree on fundamental values and develop the country based on them, the Interfax-Religion website reports.

"We need to agree on the corpus of these values and say: If a party's political program doesn't agree with these values, this political power can't be in our society," the Patriarch said at his meeting with the State Duma (Congress) in Moscow.

He added, "If we have a clear set of values that no one can ignore, destroy, or fight against, then we will have a minimal foundation for public consensus."

According to Patriarch Kirill, it is "the strategy to develop people's life" and political forces should abandon "superstructure values."

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