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The Russian national idea consists in achieving holiness. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, speaking with a sermon in the Voskresensky Cathedral of Brest on the eve of the anniversary of the German-Soviet military conflict.

The phrase "Holy Rus'", Kirill noted, appeared precisely because holiness for the Russians has long been a national ideal. “There was no brighter and more attractive goal for people, how to become like the holy people,” the Patriarch emphasized. “And this value dominant of life determines in many ways and the culture of our education, and the direction of our education, and literary work, and, finally, the attitude of people, their understanding of what is good and where evil and where you need to go, what goals need to be achieved.”

At the end of April, the World Russian People’s Cathedral, which is the head of which Cyril, called on the state and international level to condemn Russophobia as one of the most dangerous xenophobia . At the same time, the VRNS was noted in the Memorandum, in the Donbass, Russophobia adopted expressed signs of genocide.

At the end of May, Cyril said that in Ukraine, godlessness was becoming state ideology . The Russian Orthodox Church prays every day "so that militant godlessness retreats and no longer manifest itself through state power," the patriarch added.