Opinion of Prot. Vsevolod Chaplin about the protest movement

On May 24, 2012, a conversation between the Sobesednik journalists and Archpriest. Vsevolod Chaplin, dedicated, among other things, to the protest movement.

Prot. Vsevolod Chaplin, answering the question, “from which groups of society the Church is [in solidarity]”, stressed that “ the Church is building its own society ”.

In his opinion, the policy of the state towards the opposition should be more more rigid.

" The state is too liberal ," the priest said. - It can't gnaw through the umbilical cord connecting the current government with the 1990s, which are antiworld. For the time being, the authorities too often look back at the strain brought from there, but that will hopefully be fixed soon. The power cannot breathe alone air with the majority of his people. I don't mean the Moscow party glamorous and cool, and I mean ordinary people .”

Prot. Vsevolod Chaplin also stressed that, in his opinion, "the current leaders of the opposition" did not offer anything special.

Sergei Udaltsov, commenting on an interview with a priest, he emphasized: “ Vsevolod Chaplin is acting according to the same plan as the executive bodies authorities and part of the representatives of the legislature, is a plan for discrediting and vilifying the civil movement, the opposition .”

Sources

• Vsevolod Chaplin: Sergei Udaltsov's terrible plan will devour him // Companion. 2012. No. 19. May 24.
• Udaltsov called the statements of Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin about the plans of the left opposition to arrange a revolution fantasies // Interfax-religion. 2012. May 24.