Installation of artificial climate

The State Duma creates the Council for Culture, Religion and Interethnic Relations, Izvestia reports . He will work at the speaker of the lower house Vyacheslav Volodin.

"It is expected that the Council will deal with the issues of" moral climate in society "," education of patriotism "and the prevention of extremism in the field of culture," the publication with reference to a source close to the State Duma apparatus reports. The composition and structure of the Council will be determined at a closed meeting, which will be held in the lower house this week.

“The decision is made, such a council will be created,” said Alexander Shchipkov, an adviser to the State Duma chairman on a voluntary basis, the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Volodin’s adviser Ivan Demidov, who was responsible for interaction with public and religious organizations in the presidential administration, also told the newspaper that he had “heard about these plans”.

In February, Volodin appointed an adviser on a voluntary basis of the first deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church with the Society and the Media of the Schipkov. According to the head of the Duma committee on public associations and religious organizations, Sergei Gavrilov, Shchipkov was involved in the State Duma as an adviser in order to participate in working with religious organizations on freedom of conscience, the features of family legislation. At the end of January, Shchipkov praised Volodin for supervising the work "to reduce the number of orphans in the country."

In an interview with 2016, Shchipkov characterized the “Information War” as “the work of anti -Russian political technologists and propagandists who come up with various ideologems that contradict our traditions and our plans.”

After Vyacheslav Volodin became the speaker of the State Duma, he had several advisers on a voluntary basis - Alexei Chadaev, Dmitry Badovsky and Ivan Demidov. They collaborated with Volodin when he worked in the presidential administration.