ROC as a liberal

Now, when there is an increase in authoritarian tendencies in power and attempts to look in the Church not for Christ, but for “patriotism”, “Russianness”, “autocracy”, etc. become especially dangerous, the Declaration of Rights is “a step designed to ensure the development of the Church as one of the most important institutions of civil society,” Yavlinsky said in ((http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=print&div=3811 interview) ) magazine "Foma". It is called upon to finally break with the dangerous tradition of subordination of the Church to the state. With the Declaration, the Russian Orthodox Church includes itself in the world Christian Democratic movement. And in terms of basic values, this movement has no contradictions with liberalism, the politician concluded.