The Federation Council speaker Valentina Matvienko believes that reliance on spirituality and historical experience will help Russia to cross all modern challenges, and compares the reunification of Sevastopol and the Crimea with Russia on the significance of the Baptism of Rus by Prince Vladimir in 988.
Matvienko made on Wednesday at the opening of the XXIII International Christmas readings In the leadership of the Russian Federation, dedicated to the theme " Prince Vladimir. Choice of Russia ".
" Each of us feels a spiritual link with the main events of Russian history, and the baptism of Russia is among them incomparable, special place. The value of the deeds committed by Prince Vladimir for the formation of the Russian statehood, invaluable, " said Matvienko.
She said that " it is the acceptance of Orthodoxy became the starting point for difficult, took centuries, but irresistible emergence of single Russian world and Russian statehood ".
" If to speak about our time, outstanding, significant to our history event was the reunion of the Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia. In the current earth, in the ancient Chersonese Prince Vladimir was baptized, which was the prologue of the adoption of Christianity by all Rus ", - said the Speaker of the Federation Council. The mention of the Crimea hall met with applause.
According to Matvienko, having made a choice in favor of Orthodoxy, Prince Vladimir " predetermined genetic code of historical Russia for centuries and millennia and distinctive path of development for all the subsequent centuries.
Today, added the Speaker of the upper house, Russia again faced with difficult challenges." We observe, as in the case of crisis in Ukraine, many developments in Western Europe replaced the concepts of good and evil, questioned the fundamental moral and traditional family values, increasing religious intolerance. To cope with these challenges, to overcome this attack can only be based on our spirituality and our historical experience, " said Matvienko.
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