In alphabet order

editorial board
Yesterday, in the refectory chambers of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, under the chairmanship of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', a joint meeting of the supervisory, trustee and public councils for the publication of the Orthodox Encyclopedia was held. One of his main decisions was the appointment of State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov as chairman of the public council.
"Orthodox Encyclopedia" is a 30-volume publication, unprecedented in the practice of Russian book publishing, which expresses the official position of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) on issues of modern religion. The collection is published by the Orthodox Encyclopedia church-scientific center in commemoration of the 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ. The board of trustees, headed by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, is involved in raising funds for the publication of the encyclopedia; the head of the supervisory board is Patriarch Alexy II. He also carries out the general editing of the encyclopedia, and President Vladimir Putin patronizes the publication (back in 1998, when Vladimir Putin headed the main control department of the presidential administration, then President Boris Yeltsin instructed him to oversee the preparation and publication of the encyclopedia). The encyclopedia's annual budget is 60-65 million rubles, the main sponsors are Gazprombank, Sberbank and the Bank of Moscow. The final volume is planned to be published in 2012.
At the initiative of the patriarch, the supervisory board of the encyclopedia included: O. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, acting. O. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, acting. O. Minister of Education and Science Andrey Fursenko, acting. O. Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Alexander Sokolov. The Board of Trustees was replenished by the governors of the Moscow region Boris Gromov and St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko. The meeting, however, began without the ministers; they stayed late at the government meeting. Present were the Presidential Envoy to the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Governor of the Saratov Region Dmitry Ayatskov, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Evgeny Primakov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov. The new members of the supervisory board were introduced by the patriarch himself. Introducing Andrei Fursenko, the patriarch recalled that the encyclopedia had received the stamp of a textbook. “We hope for further cooperation with the Ministry of Education in distributing the encyclopedia,” noted Alexy II. The patriarch called Alexander Sokolov and the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications, which he heads, the main partners of the Russian Orthodox Church in the implementation of the project. Speaker Boris Gryzlov, who was introduced to the audience as the new head of the encyclopedia's public council, promised that the new deputy corps, which he heads, "will lead to positive changes in the public council that will lead to the unity of our society." And the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Osipov, to whom Alexy II awarded the Church Order of St. Macarius of the second degree, stated that “as a result of the joint work of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Russian Academy of Sciences, the artificial mediastinum (barrier—Kommersant) between science and religion has collapsed.” After the meeting, there was a presentation of the seventh volume of the encyclopedia, dedicated to the letter B (representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church pay special attention to this letter, because the volume deals with the Vatican, with which the Orthodox Church has had tense relations in recent years), the album “The Cathedral of the Epiphany in Yelohovo: history temple and parish" and a new television project of the scientific and church center "Orthodox Encyclopedia".
PAVEL KOROBOV

Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 84 dated May 13, 2004, p. 8

Authors:

Pavel Korobov

Boris Gryzlov will build saints