In Simferopol took place the festival "Great Russian word"

on June 12, the Day of Russia, in Simferopol ends of the VIII international festival "Great Russian word". About the peculiarities of the Festival this year, said a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the legislative power of the Republic of Crimea, Chairman of the Russian community of Crimea Sergey Tsekov, stood at the origins of holding in Crimea the International festival "the Great Russian word".
"International festival "Great Russian word", which is held in the Crimea in 8-th time, is the festival is a symbol, a symbol of the reunification of the Russian world, " noted Sergey Tsekov. - The festival over the years has become a large-scale humanitarian forum, which emphasizes a special role of the Russian language and Russian culture in the consolidation of the Russian world. Festival "Great Russian word" and emphasizes the special role that plays the Crimea in the revival of the Russian world as a single cultural and spiritual space, a single civilization. It is not accidental that in the Crimea, in Chersonesos, in the distant 988 was baptized the Holy equal to the apostles Prince Vladimir, from the Crimea light of Orthodoxy spread to Rus', including Kiev, immersed in the darkness of paganism.

Eight years in a row the participants of the festival "Great Russian word" remind the leadership of Ukraine and Russia: the Russian language and Russian culture unite peoples. The Russian leadership is always with great interest and attention to the festival "the Great Russian word". For eight years the Festival its participants annually congratulates President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. And the leadership of Ukraine to the ideas of the Festival, unfortunately, never listened. If it happened, if it had not violated the rights of Russians, russocentric citizens of Ukraine, if the Russian language became the Ukraine one of the state languages, and ideas of Ukrainian-Russian friendship was erected in a rank of a state policy, there would be those dramatic events that are now taking place in the South-East.

Unfortunately, seized power in Ukraine, a neo-Nazi forces had erected in a rank of a state policy of unbridled Russophobia. Their hands alien Western, Euro-Atlantic civilization, led by the United States went against the Russian world cultural, civilizational war. It is aimed primarily at the destruction of spiritual and historic values of the Russian world, its integration potential. Obviously, a bridgehead of this attack on the Russian world Western States have chosen Ukraine. This circumstance was noted by many participants of the festival "Great Russian word".

The theme of unity of the Russian world in the framework of the VIII International festival "Great Russian word", of course, was leading. Not accidentally, by the beginning of the festival was timed to coincide with the opening in Simferopol of the monument to St. Sergius of Radonezh - collector of the Russian land. The monument was opened by the heads of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia and the state Council of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Naryshkin and Vladimir Konstantinov, consecrated by Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea Lazar. The theme of unity of the Russian world sounded at the opening of the Festival "Great Russian word"during the VIII International socio-political forum "Cooperation - 2014", many other socio-political, scientific and cultural events of the Festival.

The Festival was attended by representatives of the State Duma, Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, bodies of state power, the legislative assemblies of the various regions of the Russian Federation, governors and heads of some regions, including Republic of Crimea, the Chechen Republic, Moscow, Rostov, Kursk, Bryansk, Samara, Vladimir regions, Krasnodar Krai. First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Alexander Torshin, member of the Federation Council Sergei Rybakov was handed to the participants of the festival "Great Russian word" greetings from the Chairman of the Council of Federation Valentina Matvienko.
The participants of the International socio-political forum "Cooperation" expressed serious concern over the situation in the South-East of Ukraine, where controlled by the ruling in Kiev's Pro-Western, ultra-nationalist regime armies and private militia carry out punitive military operation against its own people. Expressed the unanimous view that Russia should use all the opportunities available to support the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, where residents are subjected to genocide by guards involved in the so-called "anti-terrorist operation", supervised by the Western secret services. Although, these terrorists are not militia fighters of Donbass, and representatives of punitive detachments formed the puppet leadership of Ukraine. Ukrainian punitive, apparently, got up on the implementation of the "deliverables" Stepan Bandera, who liked to say that the power of Ukrainian nationalists in Ukraine "should be terrifying". Participants of the VIII International festival "Great Russian word" and the socio-political forum "Cooperation", representing different regions of the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, said this will never happen! Russia will not give offense to their brothers in the South-East of Ukraine.

The results of the VIII International festival "Great Russian word" steel concrete initiatives and proposals related to the rendering of the humanitarian help to inhabitants of Lugansk and Donetsk regions, joining the efforts of different regions of Russia for the support and protection of representatives of South-East subjected to genocide from Kiev. The issues of consolidation of the Russian world at the international level, it was decided to discuss at the Livadia forum, which was established by the participants of the festival. The venue of the Livadia forum will be the Livadia Palace in Yalta. Acting head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksenov suggested that the Fund "Russian world" and its founders are the Ministry of education of the Russian Federation and the Russian Foreign Ministry is to develop a program of recovery of values of the Russian world. The organizing Committee expressed his gratitude to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the Russian leadership for the return of the Crimea to the Motherland, to Russia. We are confident that with the Crimea began the revival of historical Russia. It was repeatedly told representatives of the Russian community of Crimea".

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