Sensational exposure of Western intelligence agents working under the guise of “Orthodox radicals. "Radicals under cover": who is behind the organization "Christian State" Miron Kravchenko Right Sector

The press secretary of the Christian State organization was related to the Ukrainian nationalist grouping "Right Sector" banned in Russia. This is stated in the Reedus investigation.

Two people appear in publications about the new organization: self-proclaimed leader Alexander Kalinin and press secretary Miron Kravchenko. The publication's source in the Moscow Patriarchate stated that both organizers are "mishandled Cossacks."

There is not much information about the leader of the "Christian State" Alexander Kalinin. He himself claims that he comes from the Lipetsk region, and studied at the Azov branch of the RSSU of the Rostov region. Local priests have not heard of Kalinin in any of these regions.

There is more information about the press secretary of the organization Miron Kravchenko. In 2006, he was called a member of the nationalist right-wing radical organization Russian National Union. The group gained notoriety after detonating an explosive device at the Cherkizovsky market. In 2009, the organization was recognized as extremist and banned in Russia.

After that, Kravchenko went to the Cossacks. Its ataman was the infamous figure Pavel Trukhin, who called himself a "Russian Orthodox fascist." Under his leadership, Miron Kravchenko even became captain.

In 2010, the future press secretary of the Christian State left for Murmansk, where he organized the nationalist movement and took part in organizing the first Russian March in the region.

At the end of the Euromaidan, Kravchenko left for Kyiv, where he took part in the "Constituent Conference on the Creation of the Anti-Putin Information Front." There he appeared as "scenario coordinator civil war in Russia". After this activity, photos of him “zigzagging” against the background of the banner of the extremist organization “Right Sector” banned in Russia remained on the network.

The publication notes that it is likely that Kravchenko is the real leader of the Christian State, using Kalinin as a cover.

According to Kalinin himself, the "Christian State" was created in 2010. However, it didn't show up before. At the same time, in a video blog that Kalinin led earlier, he stated that faith came to him only in 2012 after clinical death. Who was a member of the scandalous group, which today threatens cinemas for showing the film "Matilda", is not reported.

The media reported that the detained leader of the "Christian State" Alexander Kalinin faces criminal prosecution under the article on inciting hatred and enmity. There is no official confirmation of the information yet. In total, law enforcement officers detained three people, one of them Kalinin himself, the second - his cousin Alexander Bayanov. The identity of the third is not revealed.

However, these films are still watched on TV, and no one organizes religious processions for the ban on Soviet film classics, for insulting monarchists and royal family . But it was precisely “Matilda” that was chosen as the reason that pushed into the background the economic crisis, the confrontation with the United States, the presidential elections, and the war in Donbass. For the ninth month now, they have been trying to impose a discussion on Russia - is it possible, when describing the events of 130 years ago, to portray the heir to the throne as a man with his passions and desires. Therefore, it is worthwhile to figure out who inflates the all-Russian conflict from the film and awakens the seeds of obscurantism. Natalya Poklonskaya, apparently, has become only a formal initiator, and the storm is already going on without her active intervention. After all, puppeteers are much more influential. So, here's what life correspondents found out. ru. The campaign against the film "Matilda" began with the filing of the public movement "Tsar's Cross", which, according to some information, is associated with the oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, who, in turn, is the owner of the Orthodox channel "Tsar-grad". The publication found out that the "Royal Cross" specifically attracted the attention of State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya to the film. According to Porozhnyakov, they turned to Poklonskaya because she "is their like-minded person and has established herself as an admirer of the royal family." The Royal Cross movement is not registered as a legal entity. It is only a public page on the Vkontakte social network, created in October 2016, that is, shortly before Poklonskaya's collective complaint was filed. Little is known about Alexander Porozhnyakov. On his page on Vkontakte, he indicated another monarchical organization, the Double-Headed Eagle, as his place of work. Among the two organizations in Moscow, called the "Two-Headed Eagle", one is engaged in the development of Russian historical education, while the second was established by retired general Leonid Reshetnikov, chairman of the board of the Tsargrad channel. The organization's website is registered to his daughter Alexandra, who is friends with Porozhnyakov on Vkontakte. It is significant that figures from “fraternal Ukraine” also had a hand in the heat of passions, who were suddenly terribly seized by the idea of ​​the purity of the tsar and for some reason they rushed to express the opinion of the Russian majority with particular aggressiveness. On behalf of the people, one of the leaders of the “Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine”, Yuriy Kot, suddenly began to speak, who, in his three years of living in Moscow, had never been seen in any monarchical actions and love for the august persons. It turns out an amazing thing. On the whole, the political forces of Russia are calmly and even with some kind of misunderstanding looking at the uproar around Matilda. On the other hand, political outcasts and clowns from among Ukrainian emigrants now and then jump on behalf of the Russian people and try to escalate the situation, take it “weakly”, “used to wipe themselves off”, as their compatriots from Galicia once tried to cause direct confrontation. This is what the nationalists in Ukraine are striving for today. Another Banderaite Pavel Kazarin, literally the day before, spoke on Channel 5, owned by Poroshenko, with an appeal-incitement - to arrange a “Maidan” in Moscow, and then take Crimea. Earlier, his family supported the coup d'état in Ukraine and left the peninsula. According to Kazarin, the conditions for his return should be accompanied by no less shocks in the Russian Federation. “Stakes on maximum disorganization, destabilization, on the new 91st year and so on,” Kazarin said. Bandera's ideas turned out to be very consonant with the newly-minted "Orthodox" organizations and monarchists, who openly promise acts of violence against civilians. Again, on behalf of the people. Alexander Kalinin, the leader of the Christian State – Holy Russia organization, stated bluntly: “If the film is shown in a cinema, tomorrow the cinema will burn down.” And what a coincidence! It turned out that surrounded by the leader of the movement "Christian State - Holy Russia", from whom the church hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church have already disowned, suddenly the closest helper is found, who has obvious connections with Ukrainian right-wing radicals who dream of the collapse of Russia. His name is Miron Kravchenko. In the Ukrainian media, Kravchenko is called a Russian nationalist. He is friendly with representatives of the "Right Sector" and without hesitation was photographed against the background of their symbols. In 2015, this character participated in the founding conference of the "Anti-Putin Information Front" held in Kyiv and spoke at the press conference "Lessons and results of the Kyiv Maidan: the possibility of implementing a revolutionary scenario and a civil war in Putin's Russia." On the Ukrainian side, Ukrainian radical Dmytro Korchinsky, arrested in absentia in Russia, took part in it. As Kalinin later explained in an interview with the Pskov Governorate, Kravchenko then hesitated on which side to fight in Ukraine, and eventually chose the Christian State. It is very likely that Kravchenko has already been infiltrated by the “Ukrainian brothers” and is on a “mission” to undermine the internal political situation in the Russian Federation. To neglect this possibility is very, very reckless. Small bug, but smelly. In Ukraine, this has been proven more than once. What do we end up with? The games of obscurantists in Russia closely merge with the actions of Ukrainian nationalists, who unexpectedly sang in the same choir with some representatives of Ukrainian emigrants. The unspoken alliance dresses up in the garb of Orthodoxy and patriotism, but in reality it is tsarebozhiya. Their goals are clear - to undermine the situation in the country, to pit Russian people for sheer nonsense. After all, if these disguised monarchists were real patriots of Russia, whose love for the country would really be expressed in the desire to make it modern, stable and prosperous, then they would be looking for heroes among other people. But they are raising Nicholas the Bloody to the shield, who plunged Russia into a series of unrest and revolutions, who, at the tune of England, sent the country to the fronts of the First World War. They do not remember either the millions of soldiers who died in this war, or the Russian officers. Of course, the actions of obscurantists and their dancers on Facebook this time will not lead to any Maidan. Russian society, unlike Ukrainian, is still too monolithic, and it is not going to please the wishes of a handful of monarchists. But no one says that they are going to shake such a country in a couple of weeks. While they are accustoming us to violence on the part of some activists, they pass off throwing Molotov cocktails as the opinion of believers. What happens next, you know it from Ukraine. Alexey Belov

In recent weeks, the public has been hotly discussing the appearance in the media space of "Orthodox Mujahideen" from the little-known organization "Christian State - Holy Russia", who are promoting the use of force in the struggle for traditional values. Kind of like jihad.

Two of its representatives - self-proclaimed leader Alexander Kalinin and press secretary Miron Kravchenko - became the heroes of many publications.

“Someone Orthodox enters”

In their public speeches, Kalinin and Kravchenko legally competently “warn”, but in fact they threaten to burn cinemas, the administration of which decides to show the film directed by Alexei Uchitel “Matilda” about the novel last emperor Nicholas II with the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya.

“If the film “Matilda” is released, cinemas will start to burn, people may even suffer, and these actions, out of hopelessness, will begin on the part of those who Love God and their people ... We officially notify: any banner, poster, leaflet with information about the rental of the film will be seen as a desire to humiliate the saints Orthodox Church and a provocation to the “Russian Maidan”,” the HGSR letter, published on the Web, says.

Soon movie theaters really began to burn.

On September 4, in Yekaterinburg, a man drove a UAZ vehicle to the Kosmos cinema and then set the car on fire. The fire spread to the building, the fire area was 30 square meters. Later, the attacker explained that in this way he expressed his protest in connection with the scandalous film.

Before that, at the end of August, the studio of Alexei Uchitel "Lendok" in St. Petersburg with "Molotov cocktails". And then, parked at the office of lawyers representing the interests of the director. Leaflets “Burn for Matilda” were scattered near the cars.

The other day, Alexander Kalinin said that the “telephone mining” of schools, shopping centers and other facilities that swept through Russia and affected tens of thousands of people is a “public campaign” against Matilda.

On September 20, the car arsonists were detained by the police. The media have already published information about one of the detainees, he turned out to be a citizen of the Russian Federation, a member of the Pridnestrovian Bodybuilding Federation Denis Mantalutsa. The names of the other two detainees are still unknown. Kalinin himself was also detained.

"Missed Cossacks"

The question of where the owner of a bushy beard and “longing for the sovereign” Alexander Kalinin came from today haunts many, and he himself claims in his interviews that he is only from the Lipetsk region. Wherein higher education he received in the Rostov region - in the Azov branch of the RSSU, as indicated on his VKontakte page.

According to media reports, Kalinin has a house in the Gryazinsky district near Lipetsk. However, the attempts of "Reedus" to find traces of the "Christian State" there ended in vain - such a local clergy had never been heard of.

Archpriest Dmitry Struev, a well-known missionary in the Orthodox environment, the head of the youth department of the Lipetsk diocese, in a conversation with a Reedus correspondent, said that he did not know anything about Kalinin, Kravchenko or other representatives of the HGSR conducting at least some kind of religious and social activity in the Lipetsk region. activity. Does not know anything about Kalinin and the head of the diocesan department for working with the media, the nun Agathon (Schneider).

The source of "Ridus" in the Moscow Patriarchate did not give additional official comments, pointing to the statement of the Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations of the Church with Society and the Media, Vakhtang Kipshidze, which had already been released in January 2017, in which he directly stated that the organization "Christian State - Holy Rus" has nothing to do with the Russian Orthodox Church.

In an informal conversation, the same source in the Moscow Patriarchate expressed annoyance that Kalinin and Kravchenko, being laymen, position their organization as Orthodox, without having a blessing for it and acting without any connection with the Russian Orthodox Church.

“These are mishandled Cossack women,” summed up the interlocutor of Reedus.

A publicist close to the synodal structures, Sergei Khudiev, drew attention to the fact that lengthy interviews with KhGSR leader Kalinin were the first to be posted by the Meduza publication located in the Baltic States and the Open Russia Internet resource owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

It is thanks to the journalists of these two editions that the “Orthodox Mujahideen” received a “media springboard” and the attention of the Russian audience. Khudiyev calls them provocateurs, playing on the fears of society before the notorious feelings of believers that are incomprehensible to most.

"Russian Orthodox Fascist"

However, the foreign trail in the Matilda scandal does not end there. In addition to the mysterious Alexander Kalinin, a man named Miron Kravchenko speaks on behalf of the KhGSR, and there is much more information about him.

In 2006, the Kommersant newspaper names Kravchenko the head of the propaganda department of the nationalist right-wing radical organization Russian National Union. Its participants are best known for detonating a homemade bomb on the Cherkizovsky market. In 2009, RONS was recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia.

As Life found out, after RONS, Miron Kravchenko went to the "Cossacks", worked on the newspaper of the Sergiev-Posad military stanitsa Cossack society and even received the "title of Yesaul", and was also awarded insignia. Its chieftain was the infamous figure Pavel Turukhin, who publicly called himself a "Russian Orthodox fascist."

In the early 2010s, he began to organize the nationalist movement in the North, in Murmansk, on the basis of the local cell of the unregistered party he had created " Great Russia”, took an active part in the first Russian March in the region.

"Right Sector", then everywhere

After the Euromaidan, Kravchenko went to Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian media, in 2015 Myron Kravchenko was a participant in the "Constituent Conference on the Creation of the Anti-Putin Information Front", was called "the coordinator of the scenario of the civil war in Russia" and

Alexander Kalinin, leader of the organization Christian State - Holy Russia, said that the "telephone mining" of schools, shopping centers and other facilities that swept across the country and caused the evacuation of tens of thousands of people is a "public campaign" against the film "Matilda". Life tells who the leaders of the "Christian State" used to be and how they are connected with Ukraine and the nationalists.

Recently, an organization not yet known to anyone - and it is not known whether it is an organization at all, or just network community, because no shares have been listed since 2010 since its inception - in last days turned out to be on the front pages of all Russian newspapers as the Russian analogue of ISIS * (which, by the way, the name directly hints at). Information about the number of its members is contradictory, data on leaders is almost absent. Nevertheless, a certain picture can be created on the basis of existing information.

As for the leader of the organization, Alexander Kalinin, a couple of years ago he did not wear a bushy beard, so successful for journalists, making him look like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, preferring a symbolic beard and rather fashionable clothes. And in 2012, the man who is now presented as the leader of Orthodox fundamentalists, did not wear a beard at all and just after clinical death "discovered Jesus Christ"(The wording is quite in the Protestant spirit).

Whether the leader of the "Christian State" has anything to do with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) can be judged from his joint photographs two years ago with the well-known preacher of non-canonical Christianity and critic of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Joachim Lapkin from Altai Territory, who appears to be a cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), which has been repeatedly denied by the latter's hierarchy.

The leader of the organization lives (according to his social media accounts and interviews) in the Lipetsk region, although on the photo he posted of "our temple" there is a car with the number of the 36th region (Voronezh region). The outstretched arm in the photo suggests he has a nationalist/background background, but it's too vague.

Of much greater interest - in view of the presence of a well-established political background - is the personality of Miron Kravchenko, who appears in recent statements by the Christian State both as its press secretary and as "the head of the organization for the Central Region, Moscow and the Moscow Region."

According to the information on the ArtPolitInfo website dated January 19, 2015, the current speaker of Christian fundamentalists began his career by working with Penthouse, Man's Look and Medved magazines. However, already in 2004 he was in the ranks of the Orthodox banner-bearers.

For the first time in the media, a person with such an atypical name and surname for Russian nationalists was mentioned back in 2006, when on April 30 - May 1, nationalists attacked several nightclubs in Moscow, in which events of sexual minorities were announced. Few people remember these events now, meanwhile, the conflict was very large-scale - the number of participants from the nationalists in each case was at least fifty strong young guys. At the Three Monkeys club blocked by them on the night of May 1-2, 2006, it came to a mass brawl with the arrived riot police, and the Thematic club, where a similar event was planned, burned down - according to one version, as a result of deliberate arson.

On May 2, 2006, Kommersant quoted Miron Kravchenko, head of the propaganda department of the Russian National Union (RONS, this organization called for attacks on gay clubs and directed them on the spot), about the goals of these actions: “We need to stop promoting this unnatural way of life. (gay. - Note. life) should think about their behavior. We are Russian people, Orthodox, Christians!"

It is worth explaining that at that time RONS was the leading organization for working with ultra-right youth in the capital, acting in 2005 as a co-organizer of the SKAzhi Oi! , gays (including the dispersal of the gay parade on Tverskaya Street on May 27) and supporters of the legalization of marijuana. Since 2005, in the Petushinsky district of the Vladimir region, for the metropolitan ultra-right youth, summer camps RONS, where, under the guidance of the leader of the Spas group and the future "Cherkizovsky terrorist" Nikola Korolev, young men and women studied knife fighting, throwing grenades and handling a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The ideology of the RONS by that time was expressed in a combination of radical Russian ethnic nationalism with real ultra-conservative religiosity, and sharply opposed to the Russian Orthodox Church.

After on August 21, 2006, Korolev, together with his comrades-in-arms (who also demonstratively distanced themselves from the Russian Orthodox Church and therefore became Old Believers) detonated a homemade bomb on the Cherkizovsky market, the Spas participants were quickly arrested, the RONS, which appeared in conjunction with them, was subjected to pressure from the security forces and lost its positions among the far right.

You can learn about Kravchenko's further biography from the certificate attached to the mentioned publication on the ArtPolitInfo website: "In 2007<…>moved to the TsKV (Central Cossack army. - Note. Life) MO (Sergiev Posad stanitsa Cossack society). He has the rank of Yesaul, was awarded with insignia, including the medal of Archangel Michael "For Courage" and the award cross "For Services to the Cossacks of the IV degree." From 2007 to 2012, on the basis of the Cossacks, he was involved in organizing and conducting children's and youth, Orthodox, military-patriotic camps, on the basis of which the creation of the "Cadet Cossack Corps named after Crown Princes Dimitry and Alexy" was started (later closed by the authorities of the Russian Federation as a potentially extremist community). In the future, he edited and typeset the military newspaper of the Sergiev Posad military stanitsa Cossack society.

These are those whose ataman Pavel Turukhin publicly called himself a "Russian Orthodox fascist", on whose uniforms flaunted eagles holding swastika-shaped "Kolovrats" (suspiciously similar to those on Wehrmacht uniforms), and in the published newspaper "Bulletin of the Warriors of Christ" it was called to hang "Soviet bastard to the singing of Horst Wessel.

Further, from the same reference "Artpolitinfo" about Kravchenko: "In 2011-12, he organized the Russian movement in the North, in Murmansk, on the basis of the local cell of the Great Russia party he created. Together with the PNDO and New Force organizations, he hosted active participation in the first "Russian March" in the region.

As for the unregistered Great Russia party of Andrei Savelyev, during its creation a significant part of the Black Hundred activists of Alexander Shtilmark joined it, and in general this party demonstrated an orientation towards religiosity, choosing the labarum of Constantine the Great as its symbol. At the same time, even representatives of the nationalists subjected the "Great Russians" to a public boycott for the black uniform chosen in the party, suspiciously similar to the SS uniform.

As for the branch of the unregistered New Force party Valery Solovyov, this is more interesting because, firstly, a number of its prominent activists - such as the artist Anatoly Pashinin and the head of the Belgorod branch Roman Strigunkov - during the Maidan and joined Bandera. Secondly, because in 2012 the leadership of the Murmansk organizing committee " new strength"included Alexander Valov (well known as an ardent neo-Nazi and a participant in street violence), who also emigrated to Ukraine in September 2014 and joined the ranks of the Azov regiment there.

It is in this context that Miron Kravchenko reappears in the public field.

Press conference "Lessons and results of the Kyiv Maidan a year later. The possibility of implementing a revolutionary scenario and a civil war in Russia" will be held on January 30, at 15:00 (local time) in Kyiv, at the Rus Hotel<…>The event is held by the forces of Russian nationalists, both in exile and those who came from Russia, - it was reported on January 22, 2015 on the ArtPolitInfo website. - Russian nationalists will speak at a press conference: Roman Strigunkov - an active participant in the Kyiv Maidan; Myron Kravchenko - publicist, coordinator of the discussion platform "Russian Club in Ukraine"; and Yuri Gorsky - Chief Editor"Artpolitinfo".<…>From the Ukrainian side, the event is expected: Dmytro Korchinsky, activists of the Azov battalion and the Right Sector* and other iconic figures of the ATO.

Apparently, around this time, photographs of Kravchenko (still with thick hair and a bushy beard) that appeared on the Internet the other day were taken next to the flag of the "Right Sector" and representatives of the organization "Russian-speaking Ukrainian nationalists" (RUN), whose peak of activity was for 2014 - early 2015.

On July 31, 2015, the press center of the Ukrainian Information Service (Kyiv) hosted a presentation of the Anti-Putin Information Front of Peoples, which was attended mainly by representatives of the Caucasian national organizations, "Intermanland separatists" ... and this "Russian nationalist".

I propose not to use the term "Russian", the phrase "Russian troops", etc. After all, Putin only wants the occupying troops in Ukraine to be associated with Russians (Russians). The use of this term plays along with Kremlin propaganda: the President of the Russian Federation will play his favorite card - the card of "Russophobia in Ukraine", which will further turn the population of Russia against the Ukrainians, and therefore will allow Russian troops in the Donbas to be replenished with another cannon fodder, - said at this event the already grown Cossack forelock Kravchenko, presented as the head of the Russian Emigrant Club.

So, and just yesterday he created a party called "Great Russia" ...

However, after some time, Kravchenko again ended up in Russia and revived his cooperation (at least at the informational level) with Igor Artemov.

In conclusion, we can add a few words about the real impact of the organization, which journalists savor every day. According to its representatives (in general, only two of them are known - Kravchenko and Kalinin - which is somehow hard to believe for a structure branched out across regions), thousands of people are members of it, however, the videos on the organization’s channel hardly collect a couple of thousand views, and on the page Kalinin on the VKontakte social network, even after the rising hype, a little more than five thousand users signed up. The organization, allegedly existing since 2010, has not held a single public action, has not reported on participation in any prayer stand or procession(which, to put it mildly, is not typical in this environment). On the other hand, she is ready to take responsibility even for the recent "mining" of shopping centers in Moscow by telephone terrorists.

* Organizations banned in Russia Supreme Court RF.

On Wednesday morning it became known about the detention of the leader of the organization "Christian State - Holy Russia" Alexander Kalinin and several other people. According to Interfax, they are suspected of involvement in setting fire to cars near the office of the director's lawyer Alexei Uchitel. According to the source of the agency, the detentions took place in Moscow and the Lipetsk region. In total, three people were taken to the police. The interlocutor of the agency said that a native of Transnistria, whose name is not called, is suspected of committing a crime.

However, by the evening it turned out that Kalinin was interrogated as a witness, he is not a suspect and is not a detainee. ​

According to RIA Novosti sources, the detainees (or interrogated as witnesses) called the cinema in Vladivostok and reported that a bomb was allegedly planted there. In addition, the so-called "Orthodox activists" during the search found containers with a combustible mixture and leaflets "For Matilda - burn!" Earlier it was reported that the same leaflet was found in the possession of Alexander Kalinin, leader of the Christian State – Holy Russia movement.

Kalinin, in an interview with Meduza, linked reports of mining installations across Russia to protests against the screening of the film Matilda. He spoke about a letter from some "guys" who were ready to "show film distributors that there are methods of struggle that are much more effective than arson." In addition, Kalinin called the arson of cinemas and "deprivation of life for the faith" permissible. The leader of the "Christian State" also offered to break the director Alexei Uchitel's legs and put him on a stake.

The first screening of Matilda in Russia was held at the Cheryomushki cinema in Vladivostok on September 11. According to a RIA Novosti source, it was to him that the call came from the detained "Orthodox activists."

Deputy Natalia Poklonskaya, which is campaigning against the film "Matilda", on Wednesday said that Kalinin was detained at her "deputy's request" to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. She told RBC that in this way she is fighting extremism, a manifestation of which she demands to recognize the very picture of the Teacher.

Alexey Uchitel's lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin, who contacted the FSB after cars were set on fire outside his office, in a conversation with Radio Liberty lamented that government bodies been idle for so long:

When it caught fire, then they began to react

- It's a shame that it took almost 9 months, although we warned about this back in February. But when it caught fire, then everyone began to react. As for qualifications, we do not know in which criminal case the suspects were detained, but we believe that in the framework of a case that was initiated on the fact of arson and intent to damage property. We believe that the criminal-legal qualification here should be different, because there is a terrorist act, and this is Article 205, - believes lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin.

He hopes the move will make the radicals think about the consequences of their actions and perhaps stop the wave of hysteria and violence associated with the screening of the film "Matilda":

They must see that they do not determine the rules, they do not dictate to people how to live and what films to watch.

– Extremists, radicals and terrorists must see that it is not they who determine the rules, but the state, they do not dictate to people how to live and what films to watch, which cinemas to go to, and yet this determines the state and citizens, determines a healthy civil society, says the lawyer. - I hope that there will be a very powerful signal, including for film distributors, who are justifiably afraid, in particular, Mr. Mamut, that the state will not be able to deter extremists. Now the state has shown that it can control the situation and manage the situation. I hope that in this sense everyone will begin to feel safe. This also applies to citizens, who can also feel safe and understand that they can watch films freely. As for the wave in general, I think that a signal has been given to Mrs. Poklonskaya as well. She needs to stop her further incorrect legal statements and actions, because that’s enough, it has gone too far, and any careless legal statements can give rise to consequences that are completely unimaginable for everyone, even if you didn’t want it,” believes lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin.

The All-Russian Public Orthodox Organization "Christian State - Holy Russia" is not officially registered. There is no exact information about the date of its occurrence, composition and structure. However, according to various information in the media, it is clear that it arose long before the conflict around the film "Matilda". The organization existed in the form of a kind of "Christian Brotherhood". Its leader was Alexander Kalinin, an Orthodox preacher under the pseudonym Christian Alexander.

Kalinin survived clinical death and made a video about it "Clinical Death", which brought him popularity. In it, Kalinin claims that at the time of death his soul went to hell, where he experienced all the torments that await unrepentant sinners, and then saw Jesus Christ himself. In the future, Kalinin began to regularly shoot videos on religious topics, where he called on people to repentance and the need to correct their lives in accordance with the commandments of God.

Subsequently, Kalinin and his admirers met and created a community. According to the leaders of the organization, KhGSR has a very extensive structure and its representatives, supporters and simply sympathetic people are in almost all regions of Russia. The KhGSR organization arose after Alexander Kalinin met Miron Kravchenko- Yesaul of the Cossack army, a public figure, in the past an active participant in various initiatives for spiritual and national revival. Together they developed a name and the basis of ideology, as a result of which the organization began to position itself as a "Spiritual-Political Order".

Miron Kravchenko is a man of interesting fate. Officially, his position sounds like "head of the organization for the Central region, Moscow and the Moscow region." Kravchenko came from among Russian nationalists: as the Pskovskaya Guberniya newspaper found out in early 2017, at the beginning of the 2000s he was a member of several Russian movements right-wing radicals, including the movement "Great Russia", organized the right-wing "Russian March" in Murmansk. In 2015, he took part in the creation of the "Anti-Putin Information Front", which set as its goal "to convey to the inhabitants of the Russian Federation and the peoples affected by the Putin regime, information that will expose the lies of the Kremlin."

The organization held several forums with the participation of Russian political emigrants and activists who fled Crimea and Donbas after the war, as well as a number of street actions in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. One of her leaders Sergey Parkhomenko, connects Miron Kravchenko and the "Christian State" with the Russian special services, although he admits that Kravchenko himself was "ideological" - it's just that these "ideas" changed at a kaleidoscopic speed:

Miron Kravchenko was a political emigrant from Russia

– The Anti-Putin Information Front was created in 2015. As a matter of fact, Miron Kravchenko, at that moment a political emigrant from Russia, was also present at its founding conference. The task was to fight Russian propaganda, to come up with some interesting events that would be counter-propaganda. We launched our own propaganda against Russian propaganda, broke stereotypes and patterns in many of the issues on which Russian propaganda and Russian society's perception of reality is based.

- How and when did Miron Kravchenko appear on your horizon? You say that he was at the founding conference of the Anti-Putin Information Front, so you knew him before that?

He was completely on our side.

Yes, we met in the fall of 2014. We held a conference on Kuban "Kuban is Ukraine". We held a conference at the museum of Ukrainian propaganda in Troyeshchyna, in the Desnyansky district of Kyiv. We had a guest there, Miron, who was invited through acquaintances and who, in principle, supported these ideas in many ways. Then I talked with him for a while and invited him to a conference, which was held in August 2015. He supported the Maidan, he supported Ukraine in the war, he was against the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbass, he dissuaded many of his acquaintances from going to fight in the so-called "DNR" and "LNR", for which we are grateful to him. He was completely on our side, against this whole Putin system and personally against Putin.

- What exactly were his claims to Putin and the Russian authorities?

He is a romantic, a revolutionary. He has, let's say, a different perception of the world. He did not perceive the archaic model Russian society, his "non-Sovity". He considered the neo-Bolshevik essence of the Russian politicians and society to be the most vile. That is, there are, as it were, some national moments in it, but everything is based on Soviet myths, on Soviet historical tradition, on the exploits of the Soviet people. And he did not perceive the Soviet Union and the Soviet period at all, because he considered himself a Christian fundamentalist more. I thought, and not without reason, that Soviet authority- these are atheists, I saw in Putin's Russia its non-Christian essence, which is covered by Orthodoxy and so on.

- Did you know at the time of the founding of your movement that Miron Kravchenko was a member of the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers, this is such an organization of so-called Orthodox activists, a member of the nationalist party "Great Russia", that he organized the "Russian March" in Arkhangelsk, the so-called "Russian Club" in Ukraine?

- I know. And the Russian émigré club was an idea discussed, among other things, by other acquaintances of mine. This was necessary to break the pattern, to understand that Ukraine is fighting not against the Russians, not against the Russian nation, but against Russian imperialism as such. During the war, we were able to understand very well in time that the Russian nationalist is not only imperial. There are Russian nationalists who want to preserve the Russian nation within certain ethnic boundaries, that is, not on the entire territory. modern Russia, but on the territory of compact residence, where the Russian ethnic group was born, that is, more central regions, the Novgorod region in the north and a little bit to the south. That is, it was not imperial Russian nationalism. At least, he positioned himself this way: I am for the Russians, but against the empire, against taking territory from Ukraine, Ukrainians are our brothers, and we believe that Putin acted very vilely, calling publicly that Ukrainians are brothers, and took the territory. Who he was - there was no secret, and it was necessary for the struggle, because among Russian nationalists, work also had to be done to show that Putin was an enemy for Russians, as well as for Ukrainians, and for any nation that suffered from an aggressive imperial Russian politics. Any means in this war are good. If you need to work with Russian nationalists, there is nothing wrong with that. In addition, we found common ground on many issues, it was a common struggle for Ukrainians, for Russians and for other peoples of Russia to remove this regime. Because he destroys people - he simply blocks some, physically destroys others, throwing them into the meat grinder of the war in Syria and Ukraine.

– Did Kravchenko tell how he appeared in Ukraine? You say that he positioned himself as a refugee from Putin's Russia. He gave some details - how did he leave, was he pursued?

Kravchenko was against Putin

“I know he was being followed. I don't remember the details, I didn't go into too much detail. Naturally, he was checked, the special services were informed that he had arrived, was living, and his activities did not pose a threat to Ukraine, but, on the contrary, they posed a threat to Putin's Russia. Very many who participated in the "Russian Marches" were taken to the pencil of the special services, some they simply turned over, made agents, sent to fight in the Donbass or imprisoned if they were against Putin. Kravchenko was from the category that is against Putin, and he, not wanting to be a tool in the hands of the secret services and not wanting to go to jail, just left. His position on the Maidan, on the war, on the annexation of Crimea was our position, that is, the Ukrainian position, so it was important.

- Did he tell you what documents he lives in Ukraine, did he apply for asylum?

At some point, I learned that he embarked on the rails of Orthodox fundamentalism

- He tried to legalize, but, unfortunately, we have such a system that many emigrants from Russia during the war still do not have refugee status. This is a big problem. And he also did not legalize, he did not have a job, so he left for Belarus. For some time he was even in Russia, and then he mostly stayed on the territory of Belarus. After his departure from Ukraine, I spoke with him little and pointwise. And at some point I learned that he had embarked on the tracks of Orthodox fundamentalism, which, in fact, was simply a cover for the ideology of the "Russian world", that only under the Moscow omophorion could all Orthodox be united.

- At the time of his departure from Ukraine, did you and other members of the Front have any ideological disagreements with him?

- We did not have. It is clear that he was religiously biased, and we are a civil organization, we do not have a religious moment, and rightly so, because we had both Muslims and just people who belong to other religions or were not believers. We simply did not exacerbate this issue, we found a compromise.

– What could have happened to Miron, why did he change his position and now he is one of the leaders of the "Christian state", which sends out these letters in Russia?

He was always a believer, but due to radicalism he went to the extreme line

- He was always a believer, a Christian, but apparently, due to his age and radicalism, he simply went to the extreme line. This is the first. Secondly, maybe he was offended by the Ukrainian authorities, because they did not help him either legalize or find any work, they did not give him refugee status. And thirdly, he was simply ideologically processed by the adherents of the "Russian world", he was simply zombified. If earlier he said that the main threat is Islamic fundamentalism, in which I agreed with him, and now he says that all this is a Jewish Masonic conspiracy, that is, these are views that are now unpopular, and it is clear that they have done work with him . It is obvious that the people who worked with him are clearly included in the social circle Russian special services, using people like him to achieve some of their goals, hiding behind the noble idea of ​​\u200b\u200bdefending Christians, and shake the situation, including arranging internal Russian confrontations, against which society is very united in order to come to the next presidential election. It's all played out by the secret services and only they benefit.

– Do you think that the special services processed him when he was in Ukraine or even before he arrived in Ukraine?

Processing started in 2015.

- No, the processing began when he left in 2015, it began actively. I am sure that he is simply being used, his ideological idealism. I know what his views were when he was here, he had his own clear positions, but he was not processed, as he is now. I didn't know that he was a member of more radical Christian organizations, but I was frightened when he started asking: "Find out what nationality the President of Ukraine has. And what is the nationality of that one?" I say: “Everyone knows what nationality is. Why did you say this now? You didn’t know about it a year or two ago, when we started talking?” This suggests that something was clearly hammered into the person’s head, and he concentrated all his attention on those issues that he had not previously pointed out. This means that someone deliberately and systematically brought him to this moment. And only professional people can let you down, some units of the Russian FSB, for example. Most likely, the way it is. There are people in the special services who are engaged in psychological processing, and I think that he fell under their influence.

Did he often go to church?

Myron was used very skillfully

- I did not follow this, but he was a man of faith. It was evident that he had such a vision of the situation. But I did not follow his religious life. Due to many circumstances, Russian emigrants who supported Ukraine from the very beginning find it hard for them in Ukraine. And we do not have the opportunity, the financial resource, to systematically complete all the tasks that the information war requires. As a result, some people are offended and turn from allies into neutrals at best, and at worst they go over to the side of the enemy. If a person with an unstable psyche or with a not very clear position, he can always fall under the influence first. I think that Miron was used very skillfully and pushed in a certain direction, Sergey Parkhomenko believes.

Head of the Information and Analytical Center "Sova" Alexander Verkhovsky suggests that the highest ranks of the Russian Orthodox Church may be behind the creation of the "Christian state":

I don't think this group of comrades organized everything.

- I'm not even sure that this is an organization in the full sense of the word, - the expert believes. - I think it's just a certain group of people who, among other things, speak publicly on this topic. Because their leader somehow spoke very evasively on this topic - which he understands, but he himself did not seem to organize them. I think it will gradually become clear. Judging by the fact that everyone there is no longer young guys, they all have some kind of background in this area. One of them was in RONS, this is the Russian National Union, Miron Kravchenko, someone is connected with an Orthodox activist Ivan Otrakovsky, who at one time promised us that Orthodox squads would patrol here, which we never saw. In principle, I do not think that this group of comrades organized all this. I think that they just successfully act as speakers who are at least partially involved in material violence, but themselves violent actions can be taken by people who are not connected with them at all. This movement against "Matilda" is clearly much broader than this group, and the radicalization of this movement is clearly taking place with some connivance of the church leaders, let's say so. It is difficult to say for sure who is personally behind this, but it is simply impossible to do without it, - Alexander Verkhovsky believes.

The statements of the leader of the "Christian state" Kalinin that his branches are in all Russian regions, seem to the expert a clear exaggeration. He is equally skeptical about the assumption that the "Christian State" is an FSB project:

- Of course, we can do everything, but I doubt it very much. I just don't understand why the FSB needs it. This is definitely some kind of church product, and if some security officials are involved in this, then still not at the level of entire departments, but in some more personal capacity. It's just that this movement is, in essence, just a very radical form in the implementation of the ideological policy that has been carried out from above for the past few years. Of course, "Christian State" is far ahead public policy but there will always be people who will go far ahead. Maybe there are some people from the FSB among them, but it's hard for me to imagine that. Purpose is not clear. I have no doubt that Poklonskaya is not the only one in our country who holds such radical views, but for the whole department to embark on such a radical path ... I doubt that this is so, says Verkhovsky.