Dmitry Volodikhin promotes young conservatives

On June 9, 2005, the Kremlin.Org portal published an essay by the writer Dmitry Volodikhin "The general "yes" and private "no" of the young conservatives in Russia", partially developing the theses expressed by the author in the report " Victorian Russia" .

The author of the essay believes that a community of people gravitating towards modern Russian traditionalism has formed in the country (D. Volodikhin calls V. Militarev and E. Gevorkyan), whom he calls the Young Conservatives (providing that there are no analogies with the Young Turks and the Young Elders).

"For the Young Conservatives, classical liberal values, and indeed any modernism in the global sense - even communist, even liberal-democratic, even anarcho-syndicalist, even sdekovsky, have the meaning of aggressive profanation of the eternal laws of being," the author claims .

The Young Conservatives seek to stop the reforms; they honor the state, but do not respect the modern elite; they are "imperials" who consider the interests of the Russian people and the Russian state to be priority over the interests of any external force. They are "cultural nationalists" who consider "their own" those who adhere to "the field of Russian Orthodox culture and just as consciously refuse any destructive influence on it . "

Naturally, the Young Conservatives should be Orthodox ( “At the same time, they repel smart and energetic people who are ready to serve the Russian civilization in word and deed, because of their agnosticism, heterodoxy or heterodoxy (belonging, for example, to the number of Catholics, Mazdeists and, of course, Old Believers), too unreasonable luxury ," D. Volodikhin believes), and "national-state building on this basis [Orthodoxy - ed. ] is the only possible option": "Orthodoxy for Russia and Russians is of paramount importance, this position is destined to be preserved and strengthened" .

Sources

• Volodikhin D. General "yes" and private "no" of the Young Conservatives of Russia // Kremlin.Org. 2005. June 9.