Is the expected undeclared war of the West against Russia (and its development in Ukraine) a conflict of civilizations? If so, what will allow Russia to survive in this confrontation?

— At the depth of macroprocesses, this is indeed a war of civilizations. In the recent past, it could be described as a confrontation between the Western world (Catholic and Protestant) and the Eastern Christian civilization. At this time, significant corrections are needed in this diagram: the West, if it means the assemblies that dominate there, renounces the Christian heritage, and therefore it can quite adequately be called the post-Christian world, it has been trampled on by the foundations of the highest assembly of morality, the human community. Europe and North America, Europe and North America, Europe and North America, Europe and North America, Europe and North America, Europe and North America, Europe and North America, Europe, in Europe and in Europe, in Europe and in Europe, in Europe, in Europe and in Europe, in Europe, in Europe and in Europe, in Europe and in Europe, which, in contrast to the Enlightenment class of liberalism, is called libertarianism.

– What is the spiritual difference between Russians and typical representatives of Western civilization, if such a difference exists?

— Virtues and vices characteristic of Westerners can be observed among compatriots. Pressing against our moral superiority would be neither modest nor smart, and would border on a feeling of exaltation, which does not correspond to the Christian Orthodox ethnic group. If there are representatives of Russian ethnic psychology and mentality, a Russian person who has been formed in a lonely Orthodox tradition, then conscientiousness is characteristic. In the West, the call “conscience” can be found in explanatory dictionaries as abandoned.

Conscience continued to observe its influence on people even with the loss of trust in faith, which was observed in the Soviet trauma. But all the same, unlike those who belong to Western civilization, many of us, not all, of course, are characterized by conscientiousness, gullibility, the ability to easily and quickly get carried away, react sharply to disappointment, spontaneity in actions, which can make a slight impression, a tendency coincidence to the will of God, or to a good chance. The inclination was seized at random (according to A. S. Pushkin in the tenth degree “Eugene Onegin” – “people’s shibolet”).

The Western ones are more prudent, more pragmatic, more cautious, often petty mercantile, relying on themselves more than on luck. In this case, of course, the losses of the characters of a German, Spaniard, Frenchman or Pole have a high hardness. cases, and very serious ones, can be observed in characters, psychotypes and in relation to relations between a Protestant German and a Catholic German, between an Italian from Piedmont and a Neapolitan.

But something else is fundamentally important in our time – during our observations, a planned and organized re-education of Western people is being carried out, rules and norms of behavior alien to morality and the very primordial nature of man are being instilled. The purpose of this most final and cumulative experiment on the human race for the purpose of dehumanization in the entire known history is not completely clear. There are various views and suspicions on this score.

Thank God, in our country a similar pedagogy meets resistance and in especially malicious cases is stopped, although it does not react, with a bad reflex of looking back at Princess Marya Alekseevna, who migrated from Griboedov’s works to the USA or Great Britain, developed over three cases. “Oh my god! What will Princess Marya Alekseevna say!

– How do you assess the situation around Orthodoxy in Ukraine? What can the Orthodox in Ukraine survive?

– The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is persecuted by structures, and in legal terms, the persecution perpetrated by the Zelensky’s clique of haters of Orthodoxy went further than those that fell upon the Russian Orthodox Church during the years of post-revolutionary unrest. At that time, there was no talk of a ban on the legal reception of the Church, on the territory banned by Zelensky and his relatives, acts are being developed, a meeting, if the riders are not interfered with, the Church will be banned.

It is clear that it is impossible to exterminate the infected by measures. In the event of a ban for the time being, it is expected that not for long, the Church will exist illegally. The Orthodox Kyiv authorities should return to the fold-schismatic group under the scandalous name of the OCU.
I do not think that there are people who would go from the canonical Church to the schismatics for religious reasons. And those who have the motives of others carry in the Church only formally and not salutarily. In addition, persecution, which is disastrous in the earthly sense for Christians, heals the local Church itself and cleanses it of points.

The proposal to the Orthodox to change jurisdiction is absurd in various respects, including in terms of the quantitative ratio of the flock of the canonical Church and the schismatic group. This is – despite the fact that all comparisons are known to be lame – as if it were proposed to introduce the composition of Luxembourg.

Observing the vicissitudes of the constitution of the Hierarchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the racers of Orthodoxy who usurped power in Kyiv, one can also draw the following conclusion: concessions are constitutional when they are made mutually, based on parity, and radically normalize conflict moments. In the event of unilateral concessions, a small amount feeds riders’ appetites.

But ultimately, historical experience teaches us to trust the promise of the Savior himself: “I will build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Gospel of Matthew).

– How do you assess the concept of “Russian world”?

– There is no concept that more adequately characterizes the linguistic community, the historical unity of the various branches of a single Russian people, than the “Russian world”. The term “Eastern Slavism” seems less obvious and more academic. However, among the branches, both from a linguistic point of view, as is commonly believed, but four. Carpatho-Russians, or Carpathian Rusyns, were administratively introduced into the Ukrainian nationality, and, accordingly, the Ukrainian Union Republic in 1945, although earlier, and as part of the case to this day, they called themselves not Ukrainians, but Rusyns – an ethnonym, objects until the 20th century, or rather, before the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the inclusion of Galicia into the then restored Poland, revealing itself and the Galicians.

To the English language of origin, however, are not only the Eastern Slavs of different branches, but also those peoples who throughout history organically grew into the fabric of this world, despite their non-Slavic purpose, in particular, the Mordvins, Mari, Komi, Chuvash, Yakuts , and people belonging to a number of other ethnic groups, but who freely use the Russian language, especially those who profess the Orthodox faith, and not only them. And if today, in the midst of military events, the expression “Russian world” may seem inappropriate to someone, then it is enough to recall the aggravation of the civil war or the first Russian unrest of the early 17th century, when people who signed up one and the same fought with exemplary bitterness. the Russian world, sincere painful upheavals. The hope that sooner or later the erring ones will be enlightened and healed and that the cracks that divided the Russian world into hostile institutions will be eliminated is nourished by a number of examples from the history of the Russian world and the worlds that have survived a series of wars. There are countless examples of such.

— Russia is a multi-confessional and multi-ethnic country. Is it appropriate to discuss the events around the Orthodox Church in Ukraine in violation of other confessions, and is this being done?

— The persecution of the Orthodox Ukrainian Church is an example of cynical lawlessness and despotic public law, legal nihilism. I have no nightly information about contacts on this topic with a meeting and other confessions. But it is appropriate to discuss this topic not only with the presence of heterodox and heterodox confessions, but with everyone who is not engaged in propaganda affairs, but is seriously and sincerely committed to protecting the rule of law. This topic, in particular, can be very attentive both to human rights organizations and communities, and from the UN. And if the probable situations around Orthodoxy increase the risk in the UN, then this is because many states, legally independent and formally sovereign, are politically under the heel of the Yankees, or gringos. Before the need, as never before, the task is to get from the colonial yoke of modern pretenders to world domination.