The priest Alexei Uminsky asked to let a doctor to Navalny. On the air of the television channel Savior, he was called the "criminal in the cassock" for this

April 7 - on the eighth day of the hunger strike, which Alexei Navalny continues in the colony, the Moscow priest Alexei Uminsky called on the authorities to show Christian mercy and allow a doctor to policy. The response of the Archpriest was the broadcast of the ROC of the Spas TV channel, where Uminsky was threatened with a criminal case and called a “criminal in the cassock”, which imposes “color technologies within the Orthodox parishes”. The scandal erupted in the community of parishioners and priests of the Russian Orthodox Church: “Savior” reminded of church rules and demanded to apologize to Uminsky. "Medusa" tells how the loud scandal in Russian Orthodox media could end and how it could end.

"It does not matter much, what is the name of the prisoner"

On April 7, Archpriest Alexei Uminsky, rector of the Moscow Church of the Holy Trinity in Khokhlah, recorded a video in support of Alexei Navalny. In a two -minute video, the priest urged to show Christian mercy to the prisoner, to whom the colony No. 2 administration refuses medical care in Pokrov. By the time of publication of the video, Navalny had been holding a hunger strike for eight days: a politician experiencing severe pain in his back and leg, intends to limit himself to one water until they allow him to be allowed.

“For me, as a priest, it does not matter much, what is the name of the prisoner, what name he is, according to which article he was convicted. But for me, the word of Christ, who calls for every person behind bars, is of great meaning to be treated like Him, ”Uminsky explained his motives.

To whom the words of the Archpriest are addressed - to the colony administration, the leadership of the FSIN or the Kremlin - he does not specify in his video. “I turn to all people on whom the fate of the prisoner Alexei and all prisoners who do not receive the necessary medical care depends,” Uminsky formulates . - Please hear the words of Christ. Please be merciful. Please do not turn the content of a person in custody into torture, into a mockery. ”

Uminsky is not the first to speak in support of the political prisoners : Archpriest has repeatedly visited the Russian colonies and pre -trial detention centers, where he communicated with both the prisoners themselves and with prison priests. “I visited ... always for a specific reason for people who needed my spiritual support ...” said Father Alexei on the air of “Echo of Moscow”. - Of course, I learned through them, from them and how they live, in what conditions they are kept, and whether there is something to complain about. <...> I know that there are different correctional institutions - among them the Pokrovskaya colony, unfortunately, is not known in the best way. "

It is close attention to the fate of Alexei Navalny that can force the FSIN leadership to begin to solve the long -naked problems of prison health care, Uminsky believes. “This, unfortunately, is not a unique case when a prisoner, regardless of what article he was convicted, does not allow doctors. <...> And when Alexei Navalny speaks about this in a full voice, and he does not just speak in a full voice, but requires the execution of his rights, including through the announcement of a hunger strike, this solves not only his personal problem. <...> In this way, this situation becomes vowel, understandable and open, it is then that it begins to work, ” said Uminsky in an interview with“ Echo of Moscow ”.

"Color technologies within the Orthodox parishes"

Two days after the publication, the video message of Uminsky became the main theme in the program “Stream” on the SPA channel. Her leading Roman Golovanov admitted that “does not like to take Navalny’s theme,” but could not ignore how the Russian Orthodox Church “is plannedly drawn into politics”.

“Spas” is an Orthodox television channel, the main owner of which is the Moscow Patriarchate. But not only the priest Nikolai Babkin came to discuss the appeal of Uminsky’s father on the air of the channel, but also the former Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergey Karnaukhov, whose activities have been closely connected with Alexei Navalny for more than 10 years. In 2009, they worked together in the Kirov region: Navalny - a freelance adviser to the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, Karnaukhov - the deputy chairman of the regional government. It was Karnaukhov who initiated the criminal case of Kirovles, the main defendant of which was the opposition. In 2013, after the release of Navalny on a subscription of the bankrupt, Karnaukhov tried to appeal this court decision, and in 2020 he asked the FSB to check the statements of the policy for extremism.

But on the air of the “Savior”, Karnaukhov, who in recent years, became a regular expert in opposition on Russian television, was represented simply as “Associate Professor of the RANEPA”. The veteran of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told the audience of the Orthodox Canal that Uminsky’s “trick” “erases the line between good and evil,” and called for overcoming the “reverence” in front of the “man in the cassock” and arrest the Archpriest, until he “threw our church into the abyss”.

Karnaukhov urged the Archpriest of Uminsky to criminal liability for extremism. “Here is a criminal, only in a cassock, who is engaged in extremism, why not take criminal law measures to him? - said Karnaukhov. “If the Russian Orthodox Church - my church - will not begin to engage in completely soberly and coldly struggle against color technologies within the Orthodox parishes ... then we will undergo a lot in the near future from priests who will become the main players against not even the Church, but the constitutional system of Russia.”

“I look at this business in an ancient Russian longing, as you understand perfectly,” Uminsky wrote on his Facebook after the broadcast on the Savior.

““ I look at this matter in the Dleeps longing ” - this is from the song of Grebenshchikov ,” the Uminsky “Medusa” explained. - Listen to her, the song is quite ironic - this means that I am just in the ironic mood. And I absolutely do not want to pedal this topic, I calmly relate to such things - all the more now the post is going on, and I want to hold a post calmly and without any similar things. ”

True, on Monday, representatives of the Savior TV channel nevertheless apologized to Uminsky, “they already called, and tonight, these apologies will be apologized on the air of“ Stream ”. They completely reacted correctly to all this, and already apologies were brought in a personal format and will be brought in public, ”said Archpriest RBC.

"Falls the name of the television channel itself"

Part of the Orthodox community immediately made Uminsky’s defense.

“The good Moscow priest Alexei Uminsky recorded a video about the need to provide timely medical assistance to prisoners,” wrote Protodiacon Andrey Kuraev on his blog in the “Live Journal”. - And then Logoydov’s television was booming on Fr. Alexy, having given out an exemplary five -minute hatred of 15 minutes. ”

Priest Pavel Ostrovsky was amazed that he did not invite Alexei's father to the studio. “They frankly doused with mud and slandered the respected confessor on the Orthodox channel, which, as it were, should, on the contrary, broadcast about the gospel,” Ostrovsky formulated in his telegram channel. “And even more so, it is not clear why they did not invite Father Alexy Uminsky himself, who was never noticed in fear of going to dialogue with someone.”

The Internet portal about Orthodoxy Pravmir said that he was stopping interaction with the Savior until the leadership of the channel brought the official apology to Uminsky.

“In the days of Great Lent, hundreds of people are upset and rightly angry. This is clearly visible from the discussions of the program on social networks and under the video itself. Slander and insults are prohibited by the secular laws of our country, and even more so unacceptable for the Orthodox television channel. The slander of the clergyman discloses the very name of the television channel named after Christ and our Savior, ”the portal’s statement said .

Orthodox broadcast of the American prison

The editorial offices of Savior have already recalled that their broadcast violates some rules of the Russian Orthodox Church. “The Orthodox Church on the basis of the words of the Prophet of God Naum confesses the principle of“ not to punish twice for one crime, ”the priest Ostrovsky said in his telegram channel. “Accordingly, if a person was sentenced to imprisonment, then this does not mean that he can now add a second punishment on top - deprivation of medical care.”

“Savior” promised to devote the next issue of his current “Parsun” current-show-however, it will not be about Russian prisons, but about American ones.

On April 10, Parsun, Vladimir Legoyda, (he also heads the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church with society and the media) announced on his Facebook broadcast with Maria Butina - a member of the Public Chamber and an employee of the RT channel, which was known after arrest in Washington on charges of a foreign agent in the United States without registration (as part of a transaction with the American investigation. She reported that she acted under the leadership of a Russian official). “Talking with a person who sat for 15 months in a [American] prison is how to communicate with the warfare returned,” Logoid formulated.

Logoida subscribers and clergymen asked why he was interested in the fate of the prisoner not in the fall of 2019, immediately after her release, but only now-shortly after Butin’s social activists traveled to Pokrovskaya IK-2 and compared it to the Pioneer Camp, calling the colony of Navalny “practically exemplary”.

“Where is Logoyda the same conversation with people who have served in domestic prisons? Why is he so interested in prisons exactly American? It is safer to criticize their orders? - argues Protodiacon Kuraev on his blog. “And why did he have an interest in this American Sitters so late?” She is already a year and a half as in Moscow. But as soon as it was used as criticism of the Russian prisoner Navalny - and Legoyd immediately rushed to spin it. ”

Representatives of Savior to the questions of Medusa, whether they support the protection of the rights of prisoners on the TV channel and intend to apologize to Uminsky, did not respond to the time of publication.

Author: Lilia Yapparova

Editor: Valery Igumenov