On November 1, 2017, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' spoke at the opening of the 21st World Russian People's Council, dedicated to the theme “Russia in the 21st century: historical experience and development prospects.”

Your Eminences and Graces, venerable participants of the World Russian People's Council, brothers and sisters!

We have gathered at a historical moment when we have the opportunity to summarize the experience of an entire era, full of events significant for our country’s destiny, and talk about the future. It seems as if today the words with which the prophet Jeremiah exhorted people in ancient times were spoken: “Thus says the Lord: Stand still in your ways and consider, and ask about the ancient ways, where is the good way, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” "(Jer. 6:16).

Over the past century, our society has acquired a certain maturity and reached that historical distance in relation to the events of 1917, which allows us to talk about them in a balanced and substantive manner - without avoiding assessments and without getting carried away by excessive politicization.

It is difficult to deny that the revolution was a tragedy. A fratricidal civil war, the death and expulsion of millions of people, huge losses in the spiritual and economic spheres. The worst thing is that during the revolutionary struggle, the seeds of hatred and evil were sown in the souls of people. And today we can observe with pain how the same hatred is being revived in different parts of the modern world: both in distant countries and among nearby peoples, among our brothers.

But this hatred today wears different ideological clothes and is associated with the drawing of new and deepening old dividing lines on the planet, with the growth of global inequality and its ideological justification, with the cultivation of artificial differences in society. These processes are no longer connected with the ideas of the previous revolution; they have different ideological foundations.

Despite the fact that the number of conflicts, wars and revolutions in the world is growing rapidly, Russia nevertheless has the strength to remain an island of stability in this dangerous flow, to follow its own historical path.

Today our society is consolidated, it does not have that tragic civil split that divided the people in half. On the contrary, today we are learning again to rejoice in national unification and reconciliation. This unification and reconciliation gives us confidence that the country and society will not stumble and fall into a historical abyss, as happened in early 1917. The history of Russia does not go in circles. We learn from our own mistakes. We have acquired immunity to all types of political radicalism; consensus is more important than ever for us, common values ​​are important. What matters is what unites, not what divides. By continuing to cultivate and increase peace at home, Russia can be an example and moral support for everyone who wants to survive the current crisis.

The world community today has come close to a historical point beyond which a new era begins - an era when a lot will change in the lives of peoples, mainly their worldview. A new era is inevitably coming due to the fact that the limits of globalization have been reached and a crisis of its unifying criteria has begun. This does not mean that the values ​​of democracy, humanism, and human rights will completely disappear from our lives. But they will no longer depend on certain abstract, global standards. Each cultural and historical subject will be forced to look in its own tradition for the support necessary for development and movement forward, to look for its own model of modernization, the origins of its own system of social institutions.

Both in the life of an individual and in the life of a people, faith in social institutions and legal mechanisms is dead without moral action, without the ability to act according to conscience. In this case, it only leads to a mad pursuit of chimeras, of elusive mirages of happiness and freedom. And to countless human casualties.

We know eloquent examples of faith without works and works without faith - both in the history of Europe and in our Russian history. These are world wars and revolutions unleashed by the powers that be. Starting with the French Revolution, which cemented new values ​​in the minds of European peoples, and ending with a series of revolutions of the 20th century. This topic is all the more important because revolutions today are on stream. The so-called “color revolutions” have become a technological concept that denotes a forceful change of power and justifies the violation of the constitution and international law.

However, despite the fact that the revolution has become an everyday technology, its ideologists still rely on quasi-religious rhetoric and try to justify the revolution as a spiritually sublime, morally justified act. At the same time, modern revolutionaries, like their predecessors, by the very logic of the revolutionary process always sacrifice part of their own people for the sake of achieving abstract benefits.

The selective approach of such revolutionaries and their curators to international norms indicates that behind the beautiful façade of legal formulations, double political standards are increasingly hidden, the desire not to submit to the force of law, but to subjugate others by the right of the strong, to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states.

Revolutions, as a rule, are carried out from above, by the elite, which captivates the people with the energy of destruction. This is either our own elite, divorced from tradition, or an alien elite, preoccupied with colonial interests. The common people are not organically inclined towards revolution; on the contrary, they are the custodians of tradition. Which does not stop him from wanting social justice.

Both catastrophes that befell our country at the beginning and end of the 20th century were caused by the fact that the national elite was unable to adequately respond to the challenges of the time. The separation from the people and the fascination with ideas that have no roots in Russian reality made themselves felt.

Here the problem of the quality of the elite arises, which must be loyal to the people and be replenished with talented people from below, and not be bound by the interests of external, global players.

Today in Russia they are looking for an image of the future. I think the image of the future is the image of the people and the image of the elite who have achieved complementarity. The elite are not those people who have risen “above the people.” The real elite are those who have accepted responsibility for the fate of the country, who identify personal interests with national, state interests. The elites and the people must be an inseparable, single whole.

Therefore, it is impossible to “appoint” elites artificially: we need a base from which today’s elite can be drawn. To educate the elite, you need to educate the people, educate society, and invest resources in it.

If we do not educate our own people, others will educate them. Therefore, in such an important area as education, it is important to restore and develop our own scientific and pedagogical schools and promote our methodological developments. This will cause resistance from supporters of global education standards, but there is no need to be afraid of this, because at the same time, it will attract keen international interest. Russian education may well become a model, the same as Russian science and Russian literature. Relying on your own cultural developments and your own way of thinking while taking into account global trends and achievements in science and technology will allow you to maintain sovereignty in the 21st century.

Social solidarity and the inseparability of the interests of the elite and the people will ensure the structuring of society according to the model of a large family. It is unlikely that the popular belief that society consists of individuals or so-called “small groups” (that is, neighbors, colleagues at work, hobby friends) is true. No. Society is based not on small groups, but on the family.

The family is a structural unit of a stable, healthy society, the main element of a solidary society. The preservation of the people, culture, language, state - all this is carried out through the family, since the mechanism of transferring experience along the chain of generations is connected with the family. If you look at this process from the outside, you can give it an accurate name: tradition. Not any specific one, but tradition as a method of connecting generations in a mode of common activity.

The family is a mechanism for transmitting tradition. How does this happen? Parents invest in their children: they finance their education, pass on family traditions, photographs, heirlooms, rules of behavior and good manners, and the skills of their favorite profession. Then dynasties of teachers, military men, doctors, athletes, builders, and priests arise. But the same applies to the entire people, to all of Russia: we preserve and pass on history, language, culture, religion, professional and everyday experience to future generations. We convey - understanding, feeling that “family” is not only us and our children, but also future generations who will not see us, but will certainly know about us.

Family is also important from a spiritual and religious point of view. Family is the first experience of love in a person’s life. That is why John Chrysostom said about the family that it is a small church. In the family, a person learns love, and through the love that is God, a person is saved. Family is a school of love, and therefore a school of salvation.

Without the desire for love as the highest value, neither family nor society will be able to exist in history. If tradition is the path along which society goes, then love is the ultimate goal of this path. It gives strength and desire to live, fills life with meaning at every moment of history.

That is why, speaking about society, we can say: society is also a big family, a “family of families.” Therefore, society is threatened by the same thing that threatens the family: the extremes of juvenile justice, same-sex marriage, the establishment of transhumanism, any attempt to give a distorted definition of the concept of “person.” A person needs care, self-improvement, spiritual development, but not for his nature to be changed. Since this nature is created in the image and likeness of the Divine, changing it in any other direction means changing God himself.

Today, the struggle for the future is a struggle for anthropology. It is a struggle to define what a “person” is. This includes questions about biotechnology, the progress of human nature, artificial immortality.

The rapid development of medical and genetic technologies appears to be a serious challenge. Futurologists are already predicting the imminent division of humanity into two races. Some predict the greatness of superhumans, others predict the fate of their subordinates. Representatives of the global elite dream of using expensive technologies to transform their bodies so that death for them will be postponed for many decades. And for the vast majority of people this will be impossible.

Such a terrible prospect also contradicts the Christian view of man. To avoid bringing dystopia to life, you need to abandon selfishness and indifference to the misfortune of others. We need to ensure that advanced biotechnologies primarily serve not those who are willing to pay the most, but those who risk leaving the world too soon.

And here, in the development of solidarity medicine of the future, the experience of our country is valuable, since it was Russia that was the pioneer in creating a system of free public healthcare.

Global challenges - be it the problem of extra people in the age of robotization or the division of humanity with the help of biotechnology - can only be overcome in one case: by relying on the solidarity of people.

And today society must strive for that solidarity ideal, an ideal very close and understandable for Christians, where unity and brotherhood reign, where people consider each other brothers and sisters. In its most perfect and sublime form, this ideal was realized in the community of the first Christians, about which St. The apostle and evangelist Luke says this: “The multitude of those who believed were one heart and one soul” (Acts 4:32).

It seems that the pursuit of such an ideal should not be controversial. But the 21st century threatens to question even those values ​​that have seemed unshakable for centuries.

“What is man, that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him?” - asked the holy king-psalmist David. Today, three thousand years after these words were spoken, we have to answer this question again.

After all, voices are already being heard that modern technologies are capable of creating artificial intelligence and artificial organs. That soon it will be possible to modernize our mind and our body in such a way, to change relations in society so much that new beings will arise that are superior to people. It is no coincidence that the ideology of this process is called transhumanism - that is, existence on the other side of man, beyond the limits of humanity.

Faith in technology is today what faith in progress was. This is also a kind of quasi-religion. This is a person’s belief that with the help of science and technology one can achieve perfection and immortality, complete power over one’s body, over nature, over life. But this is impossible. Because the source of improvement is within a person, not outside. All this leads away from the main Christian path. Ultimately - towards dehumanization, hypertrophied individualization, and therefore the destruction of society and the end of history.

For us, Orthodox Christians - and at the same time for the entire Russian society - recognition of the differences between people is balanced by the awareness of their similarities. The similarity, I repeat, is no less important than the difference.

This is one of the reasons for the most important role that we assign to public dialogue, for the sake of which we have gathered today at our Council.

For a quarter of a century, the World Russian People's Council has been conducting a serious dialogue with representatives of various political parties, including those present in this hall. With representatives of different national and religious communities, representatives of science and culture. Dialogue with young people and the older generation is especially important. In other words, a dialogue that unites all parts of our society with one solidary desire - love for our Motherland.

Revolutions always claim to create a new man, they strive to break the traditional, Christian in him - to “reforge” man. Hence the struggle of revolutionaries with tradition, religion, culture. But this is a dead-end path; it leads to denial and fragmentation. Revolutions are made on denial, on destruction, and the desire for eternal life does not deny anything, but permeates everything. This is the desire for love and for God.

If we want to be a prosperous country in the 21st century; a country that is respected by other countries; a country that has a future, if we want to avoid revolutionary disasters and civil confrontation, we must not forget our historical experience, abandon our historical destiny. If we are all guided by a common goal, then any, even the most difficult challenges will be overcome, and our descendants will be able to speak with gratitude about the achievements of our people in the coming century and live in peace with each other.

Press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'

Since the beginning of the epidemiological season, 3,675 people have been registered in Barnaul, including 654 children. All eligible children were given immunoglobulin and medical observation was established.

The diagnosis of “tick-borne encephalitis” was confirmed by the commission in 23 residents of the region, including 5 children under the age of 14 years.

When examining ticks removed from persons affected by their suction, specialists from the virology laboratory of the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Altai Territory revealed the presence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in 2.8%.

From the third ten days of August, as in previous years, ticks of the genus Dermacentor, which are carriers of the pathogens of Siberian tick-borne typhus, became more active.

High activity of Dermacentor mites is expected until the end of September. Single active ticks are also possible in October, provided there is a warm, dry autumn.

To date, 394 people have been registered as having suffered from Siberian tick-borne typhus in 2019, including 76 children.

Most often, infection with Siberian tick-borne typhus occurs when residents of the region visit the outskirts of rural settlements, forest belts, forest edges, etc. Most ticks are found along forest paths, in lowlands (mushroom areas), and old clearings.

Despite the fact that the period of tick activity in autumn is shorter than in spring, and the number of ticks in autumn is significantly lower than in spring, the likelihood of suffering from tick bites remains.

In this regard, specialists from the Rospotrebnadzor Office for the Altai Territory remind us of the need to wear protective clothing when going out into nature, regularly conducting self- and mutual examinations, and using repellents.

If a tick is sucked on, it is necessary to promptly seek medical help at emergency centers of medical organizations at the place of residence to decide on the need to administer immunoglobulin.

Immunoglobulin should be administered within 96 hours from the moment of tick bite and if it has been established that the tick is infected with the tick-borne encephalitis virus.

To examine a tick for the presence of tick-borne encephalitis virus, it must be placed in a container covered with a thick cloth and brought alive to the virology laboratory of the Federal Budgetary Institution of Health "Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Altai Territory" at the address: Barnaul, st. M. Gorky, 28, phone 8 (3852) 50–40–34. The study is carried out within 1 day.

It is also possible to test tick fragments for the causative agent of tick-borne borreliosis.

If a tick-borne encephalitis antigen is detected in the tick being tested, the victim should contact a seroprophylaxis center for the administration of immunoglobulin. As in previous years, anti-tick immunoglobulin is administered to children under 14 years of age free of charge in the city of Barnaul at the emergency room of children's clinic No. 9, and in the regions of the region - in children's clinics at their place of residence. Adults are served through insurance companies: insured persons - under insurance policies, uninsured persons - for personal funds at seroprophylaxis points in medical organizations at the place of residence.

If you receive a positive result from a laboratory test of a tick for infection with Borrelia, you must consult a doctor at your place of residence to decide on nonspecific prophylaxis.

If it is impossible to deliver the removed ticks for examination, burn them. Ticks should not be crushed with your hands, as the causative agent of the disease can enter the human body through microtrauma.

When removing a tick yourself, you must follow the following recommendations:

– grab the tick with tweezers or fingers wrapped in clean gauze as close to its oral apparatus as possible and holding it strictly perpendicular to the surface of the bite, rotate the tick’s body around its axis, remove it from the skin;

– disinfect the bite site with any means suitable for these purposes (70% alcohol, 5% iodine, cologne);

– after removing the tick, you must wash your hands thoroughly with soap.

The epidemiological situation regarding diseases transmitted by tick bites and monitoring of ixodid ticks is under constant control of the Office of Rospotrebnadzor in the Altai Territory.

Actor Andrey Merzlikin sent a letter to the Governor of the Altai Territory, Alexander Karlin, with words of gratitude for supporting his speech at the World Russian People's Council «».

“Dear residents of the Altai Territory! Dear Alexander Bogdanovich! I would like to express my gratitude for the kind words addressed to me that I received in support of my speech at the World Russian People's Council, the topic of which this time was the issue of preserving Russian culture. The high appreciation of the fact that in my speech I used the creative heritage of Vasily Makarovich Shukshin, quotes from his life, reflections on the Motherland, the peasantry, is dear to me, since I consider them the highest degree of manifestation of love for Russia. I personally thank you, Alexander Bogdanovich, for that experience of communication and the opportunity to implement our project “Shukshin. Man of the Earth". With your support, we have found a new volume in the collection of stories, this time the written legacy of the great writer, letters to his mother, friends, reflections on the profession, cinema, art... and discovered a new Shukshin. Poignant, sincere and nostalgic for his small homeland. The experience of working on the play became my personal life experience. The writer’s worldview influenced me and in many ways now helps me to be guided in life by the criteria by which Vasily Makarovich himself lived. I am sure that we will have the opportunity more than once to combine our efforts to preserve the memory of the writer and, in his person, to preserve one of the pillars of Russian culture,” emphasized Andrei Merzlikin.

Let us remind you: World Russian People's Council took place on November 1 in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. XXI World Russian People's Council « Russia in the 21st century: historical experience and development prospects» spent His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill. Its plenary part was attended by representatives of all branches of government, leaders of parties, public associations, the highest clergy of traditional religions, figures of science, education and culture, delegates of Russian communities from near and far abroad. One of the most striking and meaningful speeches, according to Governor Alexander Karlin, was the speech of actor Andrei Merzlikin.

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The events of the 1917 revolution were assessed at the World Russian People's Council. Member of the congress, deputy of the Tyumen Regional Duma Oleg Chemezov, shared his opinion with the editors of Tyumen Region Today. - Of course, in the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, such a capacious forum could not help but touch on the analysis and assessment of those events. Moreover, a variety of points of view were expressed, but for the most part, speakers and speakers assessed the events of a hundred years ago as tragic. Although the opposite point of view was also voiced by the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov. As always, the most balanced and wise report was the report of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'. His assessment of revolutionary events was precisely the most thoughtful, initially Christian. But in his report, His Holiness moved from assessing the past to building the future. The patriarch considers one of the main tasks to be the formation of an elite. He noted that the elite are not those who are above the people, they are not appointed people. “The real elite are those who have accepted responsibility for the fate of the country, who identify personal interests with national, state interests. The elites and the people must be an inseparable, single whole,” Kirill believes. And as if a refrain throughout the report sounded the need to rise above revolutionary unrest and party quests. “Revolutions are made on negation, on destruction, and the desire for eternal life does not deny anything, but permeates everything. This is the desire for love and for God,” said His Holiness. This is exactly how society should be consolidated. The speech of the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin also attracted attention. His report contained the necessary reference to the assessment of the events of a century ago from the lips of the philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev: “The revolution always says that those in power did not fulfill their purpose... There was no creative development from above, no light was emitted... there were no creative spiritual strength to reform society... and therefore the darkness broke out from below.” Darkness is interpreted by Berdyaev as the people’s loss of faith, the people’s loss of the center of life. Volodin quite harmoniously outlined the conceptual understanding of the consolidation of modern Russian society and the connection of this process with the process of lawmaking. In the speech of United Russia leader Sergei Neverov, I remember a vivid return to understanding the difficult 90s for the country... Indeed, this was another time when everything that more than one generation had strived for was overthrown and denied. And life teaches that denial of historical experience threatens the most tragic consequences. “Because no matter how technology develops, the main thing is not machines, the main thing is people,” Neverov emphasized. The speech of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky was bright and frank. In his characteristic biting manner, he covered both the revolution and the transformations of the Bolsheviks. He noted that if it had not been for the revolution, then in 1918 our troops would have been in Berlin, and there would have been no Hitler. In the end, Vladimir Zhirinovsky reached the point of assessing the events in Donbass, and in his report he made the following point, assessing the number of troubles that have befallen our country, which, from my point of view, everyone should think about: “And all because the Russian question closed in 1917. They created a Soviet man in his place, who disappeared in 1991.” Indeed, who do we have now instead of the Soviet people, and what about the Russian question, which for some reason is not even customary to talk about. It is impossible not to note the bright, emotional performance of the wonderful actor Andrei Merzlikin, who in his report relied on the legacy of Vasily Shukshin. I quoted his thoughts about the Motherland, the peasantry... And you know, there was a feeling that it was the primordial Russian spirit that swept through the hall where the World Russian People's Council was held. The Governor of the Altai Territory, Alexander Karlin, then publicly thanked the actor for his speech. This is living, real... After all, there are many people there who are used to what is called sleeping at meetings, and Merzlikin woke everyone up. And indeed, as the actor noted, “it’s time to re-read Vasily Makarovich,” because it was he who urged us “not to forget about the soul.” But the most important thing, I think, is that all our thoughts, words, aspirations about man, about the people find their expression in reality. It is and only then that we can talk about the consolidation of society necessary for evolutionary development. Many more meetings, round tables, congresses, and appearances in the media can be held, but a person must feel the opportunity to realize his talents and abilities. So that, to the trumpet of great accomplishments and achievements, no one could reproach us, like Vasily Makarovich Shukshin: “And Rus' will still live: dancing and crying under the fence...” By the way, he considered sitting at meetings a waste of time. So let's not waste time. And I’ll end with the words of the same Shukshin, probably the main ones: “We wouldn’t forget about our souls, we should be a little kinder, we, with our speed, would not forget that we are people.”

Oleg Chemezov, a participant in the congress and deputy of the Tyumen Regional Duma, shared his opinion with the editors of Tyumen Region Today.

Of course, in the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, such a capacious forum could not help but touch upon the analysis and assessment of those events. Moreover, a variety of points of view were expressed, but for the most part, speakers and speakers assessed the events of a hundred years ago as tragic. Although the opposite point of view was also voiced by the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov.

As always, the most balanced and wise report was the report of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'. His assessment of revolutionary events was precisely the most thoughtful, initially Christian. But in his report, His Holiness moved from assessing the past to building the future. The patriarch considers one of the main tasks to be the formation of an elite. He noted that the elite are not those who are above the people, they are not appointed people. “The real elite are those who have accepted responsibility for the fate of the country, who identify personal interests with national, state interests. The elites and the people must be an inseparable, single whole,” says Kirill. And as if a refrain throughout the report sounded the need to rise above revolutionary unrest and party quests. “Revolutions are made on negation, on destruction, and the desire for eternal life does not deny anything, but permeates everything. This is the desire for love and for God,” said His Holiness. This is exactly how society should be consolidated.

The speech of the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin also attracted attention. His report contained the necessary reference to the assessment of the events of a century ago from the lips of the philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev: “The revolution always says that those in power did not fulfill their purpose... There was no creative development from above, no light was emitted... there were no creative spiritual strength to reform society... and therefore darkness broke through from below.” Darkness is interpreted by Berdyaev as the people’s loss of faith, the people’s loss of the center of life. Volodin quite harmoniously outlined the conceptual understanding of the consolidation of modern Russian society and the connection of this process with the process of lawmaking.

In the speech of United Russia leader Sergei Neverov, I remember a vivid return to understanding the difficult 90s for the country... Indeed, this was another time when everything that more than one generation had strived for was overthrown and denied. And life teaches that denial of historical experience threatens the most tragic consequences. “Because no matter how technology develops, the main thing is not machines, the main thing is people”, Neverov emphasized.

The speech of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky was bright and frank. In his characteristic biting manner, he covered both the revolution and the transformations of the Bolsheviks. He noted that if it had not been for the revolution, then in 1918 our troops would have been in Berlin, and there would have been no Hitler. In the end, Vladimir Zhirinovsky reached the point of assessing the events in Donbass, and in his report he made the following point, assessing the number of troubles that have befallen our country, which, from my point of view, everyone should think about: “And all because the Russian question closed in 1917. They created a Soviet man in his place, who disappeared in 1991.” Indeed, who do we have now instead of the Soviet people, and what about the Russian question, which for some reason is not even customary to talk about.

It is impossible not to note the bright, emotional performance of the wonderful actor Andrei Merzlikin, who in his report relied on the legacy of Vasily Shukshin. I quoted his thoughts about the Motherland, the peasantry... And you know, there was a feeling that it was the primordial Russian spirit that swept through the hall where the World Russian People's Council was held. The Governor of the Altai Territory, Alexander Karlin, then publicly thanked the actor for his speech. This is living, real... After all, there are many people there who are used to what is called sleeping at meetings, and Merzlikin woke everyone up. And indeed, as the actor noted, “It’s time to re-read Vasily Makarovich”, because it was he who urged us “not to forget about the soul.” But the most important thing, I think, is that all our thoughts, words, aspirations about man, about the people find their expression in reality. It is and only then that we can talk about the consolidation of society necessary for evolutionary development.

Many more meetings, round tables, congresses, and appearances in the media can be held, but a person must feel the opportunity to realize his talents and abilities. So that, to the trumpet blast of great accomplishments and achievements, no one can reproach us like Vasily Makarovich Shukshin: “And Rus' will still live: dance and cry under the fence...” By the way, he considered it a waste of time to sit in meetings. So let's not waste time. And I’ll end with the words of the same Shukshin, probably the most important: “We should not forget about our souls, we should be a little kinder, we, with our speeds, would not forget that we are people.”.