World Council of the Russian People

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18th World Assembly of the Russian People (2014)

The World Council of the Russian People ( Russian Всемирный Русский Народный Собор ), sometimes also the World Assembly of the Russian People , is an international public organization. It was founded in May 1993 under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church with the aim of uniting the Russian people. The leadership rests with the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia . This is currently Patriarch Kyrill I , previously Patriarch Alexius II.

Representatives of the government, associations, the religions represented in Russia , individuals from science and culture, as well as delegations from the Russian diaspora abroad take part in the council meetings. In June 2005 the council was granted the status of an advisory organization to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations .

During its tenth meeting, which took place from April 4 to 6, 2006 in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior , the council passed the Russian Declaration of Human Rights , thereby rejecting the “distorted view of human rights” that had become prevalent in the West . In particular, the council was judged on the idea of moral autonomy . The modern understanding of human rights postulates that the moral autonomy of the individual can only find its limits in the autonomy of other individuals: there is no supreme authority that can distinguish between good and evil. It would lead to the decline of modern civilization if the sovereignty and the rights of the individual were raised to an absolute value, because then the counterbalance of moral responsibility would be missing. There are values that are no less important than human rights; " Faith , morals , the inviolability of sacred objects and one's country " are counted among these values .

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Individual evidence

  1. The nation needs moral values: the Moscow Patriarch encourages discussion
  2. ^ The Atheist West in the Light of Orthodoxy
  3. a b Human Rights and Moral Responsibility. Paper read by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, at the X World Russian People's Council
  4. The Russian Declaration of Human Rights ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( German translation ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sras.org