The Russian head of state speaks at the Valdai Club forum , dedicated to Russian identity , and dedicated his entire address to ‘ traditional ‘ faith and morals versus the West’s model of politically correct: “Minorities must be respected but the rights of the majority must not be put into question .”
People will “lose their human dignity without the values ??of Christianity and the other religions of the world, without those moral parameters that took thousands of years to be defined”, says the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Head of State was speaking Sept. 19 at the closing session of the Valdai Club, the international forum organized by the Ria Novosti newsagency, that brings together Russian politicians, analysts and civil society members in Russia and abroad. This year, the tenth edition was dedicated to the search for identity in Russia.
“We believe that it is natural and appropriate to defend those values ??- said the head of the Kremlin – every minority deserves respect for its distinctive identity, but the rights of the majority should not be put into question.” Putin, who has always focused on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and “traditional values ??” to cement the immense and multi-ethnic country around a common idea of ome, was careful to distribute equal importance to all the communities and confessions. He stated that Russia can not go on without national and cultural self-determination, because in this case it would not be able to respond to internal and external challenges .
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“Global events present a serious challenge to Russian identity – he explained – in both moral issues and foreign policy. We have seen many euro -Atlantic countries embark on the path of renunciation of their roots, including the Christian values ??which are the foundation of Western civilization”. “This – he added – involves the denial of the principles and morals of every traditional national, cultural, religious and even sexual identity”. The explicit reference is to the laws in Europe that have legalized same-sex unions and against which Russia has been expressed itself very strongly , even attracting international criticism .
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