Will of god (organization)
The Will of God ( Russian Божья Воля ) is an organization of ultra-right Orthodox in Russia . Its leader is Dmitri Zorionov ( Дмитрий Цорионов ).
The organization is part of the right-wing conservative movement that grew stronger in Russia in the 2010s and sees itself as the guardian of the Russian Orthodox identity. Followers of “God's will” have repeatedly called for the death penalty for blasphemy and homosexuality . The group finds itself covered by the Russian Orthodox Church. She is considered to be the Kremlin's main power. The group sees the Orthodox Church as an incontestable moral authority. To strengthen the position of the church in society, the Duma passed a law on the protection of religious feelings in 2015.
The organization was accused of assaulting a Pussy Riot supporter in 2013 .
Yabloko party attack
In 2013, the “will of God” attacked the office of the liberal Yabloko party. Zorionov and his friends ransacked the party's brochure stand and then burned the party materials in a garbage can. They chanted "Yabloko - party of satanists and perverts".
Destruction of art
On August 17, 2015, militant Orthodox activists of the “Will of God” attacked the exhibition “Sculptures We Do Not See” in Moscow. They damaged works of art with religious motifs in the state art gallery "Manege". The exhibition showed works of art from the time of the Soviet Union that were not allowed to be shown at the time. According to the Kunsthalle, at least four works by the internationally known artist Wadim Sidur , who died in 1986, were damaged and in some cases destroyed. Sidur is one of the most important Russian sculptors of the 20th century.
The leader of the "Will of God" Dmitri Zorionov demanded that the show should be closed because of blasphemy . The human rights representative at the Kremlin , Mikhail Fedotov , sharply criticized the group after the attack and compared it with the Islamic State (IS), which destroyed art treasures in Syria out of religious madness.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pavel Lokshin: Pastafarianismus: Russia's fight against the noodle dissidents. In: welt.de . August 30, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Right-wing activists disrupt the art exhibition. In: nzz.ch. August 14, 2015, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www1.wdr.de/themen/infokompakt/nachrichten/kulturnachrichten/kulturnachrichten13882.html
- ↑ dpa report - ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
