pseudo-Putinist and anti-Putinist in one person ..

To the question about Poklonskaya:

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— We are not yet acting in conjunction, because each must advance along its own front. We indicate the intentions of the activists, it comes on the prosecutor's part. Of course, it would be strange if Poklonskaya took a Molotov cocktail and went to throw it at the cinema. Yes? But Orthodox activists, especially young guys, younger than us… They are ready to [act] with radical methods

If
with Muslims, who began to be bombarded with caricatures of the prophet,
there were no particular problems, and harsh and violent reactions ensued
almost instantly, then there were hitches with the Orthodox people.

it would seem that they danced impudent dances in their temples. - And what? Not only
muzzles do not beat, but even pray for enemies, even calls for
forgiveness.

So, an unknown organization appears - "Christian State - Holy Rus'" .
Judging by the fanatical speeches of its leader Alexander Kalinin,
then you can take them for typical sectarians, crazy fanatics, whom
enough in any denomination.

But some facts of the biography of the second representative of the pseudo-Christian movement Myrona Kravchenko talking about something else.

This now "Orthodox activist", as colleagues from the publication "Pskovskaya Gubernia" found out, “In August 2015, he took part in the founding conference in Kyiv on the creation of the Anti-Putin Information Front...

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2011-2012 organized the Russian movement in Murmansk
(on the basis of the local cell of the party "Great Russia" created by him). hosted
active participation in the first in the region "Russian March" . (About the organizer of these "marches" Mr. Potkin below).

Was the coordinator of the discussion platform "Russian club in Ukraine" , coordinator "Russian emigrant club" . But no, emigration is not sweet.

Here is what Miron Kravchenko told the correspondent of the publication "Pskov province":

To the question about Poklonskaya:

— ... We have a division of labor. Everyone is doing their own thing.

— Have you contacted her? How supportive are you? How supportive is she?

A man who knows people who will be involved in movie theater arson anyway. A person who does not rule out that film director Alexei Uchitel "may suffer because there are people who are ready to speak in person."

Doesn't this remind you of anything?

And it reminds me personally.

And a lot. And the Socialist-Revolutionary agent Priest Gapon, and the arson of the Reichstag by the Nazis, and the "Russian nationalist", the active "white tape" Potkin, so at the wrong time for Western curators (August 24, 2016) sentenced to 7.5 years in a colony.

This "Russian" nationalist was also involved in cooperation with the Kazakh nationalists who are expelling Russians from Kazakhstan, and cheerfully stated in an interview with Total.kz that "sooner or later the Russians will still have to leave Kazakhstan."

So we found a replacement for him. The medicine was just not changed.

It would seem that any person who thinks in the slightest degree understands that the violent actions so loudly propagated against the film of the Teacher are committed not by Orthodox activists, but by typical provocateurs hiding behind Orthodoxy. This means that they are directed precisely against the Church and to discredit those Orthodox who oppose the film.

As if on cue, from all over, both from the right and from the left, screams about "Orthodox jihad" rushed. patriot" Kurginyan.
At the same time, exactly the same "fork" is put on society as in the story with "Charlie Hebdo": If you are "not Charlie", then you are for jihad!

As if normal person is obliged to stand only on the side of one or another provocateur. As if, apart from provocation, there is no other way of thinking and behaving.

It is characteristic that Konstantin Dobrynin, the director's lawyer Uchitel, presents each act of violence - the arson of the Lendok film studio and the burning of cars - as knowingly connected with Poklonskaya.

The campaign against Orthodoxy announced by the West is gaining momentum.

The method of combating traditional religions was first worked out on the theme of "Charlie Hebdo".

I think that it is worth talking about this in more detail, but a little later.

In the meantime, let's dwell on the problems that the West has faced in this new "crusade" of its own.

If there were no special problems with the Muslims, who began to be bombarded with caricatures of the prophet, and harsh and cruel reactions followed almost instantly, then there were hitches with the Orthodox people.

Here, it would seem, they danced impudent dances in their temples. - And what? Not only do they not beat their faces, but they even pray for enemies, even calls for forgiveness are heard.

They cut down and burned many worship crosses throughout the country - and again no aggression. They built new crosses.

They launched "Matilda" - and they collect signatures to the courts, to prayer standings ....

Yes, what kind of nonsense is this?!

And then their curators arrived in time to help our, not quite creative, atheists.

The Anglo-Saxons have long worked out the tactics and strategy of such discredits. What is in Syria, what is in Ukraine.

So, an organization unknown to anyone appears - “Christian State - Holy Rus'”. Judging by the fanatical speeches of its leader Alexander Kalinin, one can take them for typical sectarians, half-witted fanatics, of which there are enough in any denomination.

But some facts of the biography of the second representative of the pseudo-Christian movement, Myron Kravchenko, tell a different story.

This now “Orthodox activist”, as colleagues from the Pskov Gubernia found out, “in August 2015 took part in Kyiv in the founding conference on the creation of the Anti-Putin Information Front ...

In 2004, he joined the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers, and later became a Cossack.

In 2011-2012, he organized the Russian movement in Murmansk (on the basis of the local branch of the Great Russia party he created). He took an active part in the first Russian March in the region. (About the organizer of these "marches" Mr. Potkin below).

He was the coordinator of the discussion platform "Russian Club in Ukraine", the coordinator of the "Russian Emigrant Club". But no, emigration is not sweet.

Here, in Russia, you can earn more on the loose soil of provocations and mimicry.

You can, for example, in the fight against Poklonskaya pretend to be her ally. What is the significance of the lack of personal acquaintance? Yes, none. Less likely to get in the face.

Here is what Miron Kravchenko told the correspondent of the publication "Pskov province":

To the question about Poklonskaya:

— ... We have a division of labor. Everyone is doing their own thing.

- Have you contacted her? How supportive are you? How supportive is she?

- We are not yet acting in conjunction, because each must advance along its own front. We indicate the intentions of the activists, it comes on the prosecutor's part. Of course, it would be strange if Poklonskaya took a Molotov cocktail and went to throw it at the cinema. Yes? But Orthodox activists, especially young guys, younger than us... They are ready to [act] with radical methods...

Did you have personal contact with Alexei Uchitel or his representatives, or do you only communicate in absentia through the press?

- No, I told you that we even feel sorry for him. We don't even want to hurt him. If he gets hurt, it's certainly not from us. Although, of course, he may suffer, because there are people who are ready to speak in person.

On the Internet, there are still photos of the “Orthodox activist” Miron Kravchenko with a forelock on his head, speaking on the “anti-Putin front”, and now he, having acquired a beard, is broadcasting about the God-chosen Russian people, making a rude substitution of the Russian idea with aggressive deceitful messianism like Bandera.

So, he accompanies photographs of cars burned near the office with the words: “While Poklonskaya tells everyone about some lawsuits of the relatives of the holy tsar and tries to ban the film, her supporters continue to throw Molotov cocktails and burn them,” although he perfectly understands the unsubstantiated assertion.

Moreover, as a lawyer, he must understand that there is a presumption of innocence, that there is liability for slander. No, he doesn't see anything at all. Doesn't want to.

In other words, we have before us an example of manipulation on the part of those who seem to act as victims of "Orthodox terror." Undoubtedly, this does not honor the director of the film himself and makes one think about the ambiguity of what is happening.

But the point is not the defenders of homosexuality, but the fact that a battle is unfolding before our eyes aimed at creating discord in Russian society precisely in the period immediately preceding the presidential elections in 2018.

And all the blame for this, artificially and intensely inflated by anti-Orthodox forces, is a priori laid on the Russian Orthodox Church.

The devil is a lie and the father of all lies

For it is said: “Hear with your ears, and you will not understand, and you will look with your eyes, and you will not see, for the heart of these people is hardened, and with their ears they can hardly hear, and their eyes have been closed, so that they will not see with their eyes, and they will not hear with their ears, and they will not understand with their hearts, and let them not turn to me to heal them." (Matthew 13:11).

On Wednesday morning it became known about the detention of the leader of the organization "Christian State - Holy Rus'" 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 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 Rus' 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.

Leader of the "Christian State" Alexander Kalinin

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, but nevertheless 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,” lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin believes.

The All-Russian Public Orthodox Organization "Christian State - Holy Rus'" 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, 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 Gubernia newspaper found out in early 2017, at the beginning of the 2000s he was a member of several Russian right-wing radical movements, including the Great Russia movement, organized the right-wing Russian March in Murmansk. In 2015, he took part in the creation of the "Anti-Putin Information Front", which aimed to "report to the inhabitants of the Russian Federation and the peoples affected by Putin's regime, information that will expose the Kremlin's lies."

The organization held several forums with the participation of Russian political emigrants and activists who fled Crimea and Donbass 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 "DPR" and "LPR", 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 accept the archaic model of Russian society, its "neo-Sovness". 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 the Soviet historical tradition, on the exploits of the Soviet people. And he did not perceive the scoop at all and Soviet period because he considered himself more of a Christian fundamentalist. 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.

- You knew 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 originated, 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 needed to be done to show that Putin is 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, on many issues we found common ground, it was 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 found out 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, 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 in the circle of contacts of the Russian special services, using people like him to achieve some of their goals, hiding behind the noble idea of ​​​​protecting Christians, and shaking the situation, including arranging internal Russian confrontations, against the backdrop of which the society is very united in order to come to the next presidential elections. 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:

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 partly involved in material violent actions, but the violent actions themselves 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.

Alexander Kalinin, leader of the Christian State - Holy Rus' organization, 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 an online community, because no shares have been listed since 2010 since its creation - 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. However, a certain picture based on existing information can be created.

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 a well-known preacher of non-canonical Christianity and a critic of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Joachim Lapkin from the Altai Territory, who introduces himself as a cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad (ROCOR), which has been repeatedly denied by the latter's hierarchies.

The leader of the organization lives (according to his accounts in social networks and interviews) in the Lipetsk region, although on the photo of "our temple" he posted 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 magazines, " Male look"And" The Bear ". 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 Tematic 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 August 21, 2006, Korolev, together with his associates (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 the organization and conduct of 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 Russian authorities 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 Andrey 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 Soloviev, 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 of the New Force 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 civil war in Russia" will be held on January 30, at 15:00 (local time) in Kyiv, in the hotel "Rus"<…>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, editor-in-chief of 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, photos of Kravchenko (still with thick hair and a full 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 standing or procession of the cross (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.

It has long been said that secret services are behind numerous groups of so-called Orthodox fundamentalists. True, it is not clear which state is ultimately the beneficiary of such patronage. On the one hand, there is no doubt that the Russian ultranationalists enjoy the favor of some part of the security forces. On the other hand, many of them openly operate as part of right-wing Ukrainian detachments, whose activities are punishable by law in the Russian Federation. Isn't it true, all this looks like the tsarist secret police, who fed so many Azefs and Gapons that in the end it turned out to be them and overthrown. In light of the film's confrontation "Matilda", the historical parallels look particularly ominous.

On September 20, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the arrest of several people on suspicion of involvement in setting fire to cars near the office of Konstantin Dobrynin, a lawyer for the director of the film "Matilda" Alexey Uchitel. A little later it became known that the detainees also confessed to telephone threats to the cinema, which showed "Matilda". In the same case, Lipetsk-based Alexander Kalinin, the leader of Christian State, an Orthodox fundamentalist organization, who said last week that evacuations at shopping malls, schools and other buildings across the country were also linked to Matilda, was taken to police. Thus, it became possible to take a closer look at what this organization is.

From the “Anti-Putin Front” to the “Christian State”

Little is known about the activities of the Christian State - Holy Rus' organization. In early 2017, she sent more than a hundred letters to Russian cinemas threatening to set fire to cinemas if they showed Alexei Uchitel's film Matilda. In September, the situation repeated itself - it was precisely the letters with threats from KhG that were referred to by the representative of the owned Alexandru Mamut united network of cinemas "Cinema Park" And "Formula Kino" Alexandra Artamonov, explaining the decision not to show Matilda. At the same time, for the allegedly related to "Matilda" arson of Alexei Uchitel's studio and cars near the Moscow office of the director's lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin The organization does not take responsibility. KhG leader Alexander Kalinin also claimed that evacuations in shopping malls, schools and other buildings and spaces throughout Russia are connected with Matilda; however, in this case, too, Kalinin stated that some “supporters of the fight against recklessness and immorality” were doing this, but not members of the “KhG”. The procedural status of Kalinin in the criminal case related to the arson of cars is unknown at the time of publication of the material; it is assumed that he may be charged with extremism.

In their interviews, representatives of the "Christian state" claim that the organization consists of more than 300 people, and it has existed in one form or another since 2010. The KhG website, which stopped working on September 14, indicated that there were regional branches of the organization in 13 Russian cities, including, for example, Ussuriysk and Diveevo; the counter of the number of "KhG" participants showed that there were already almost five thousand people in the movement.

At the same time, there is no evidence that the "Christian State" has any supporters and regional branches. Entity with this or similar name is not registered in Russia. The main source of information about "HG" on this moment- Alexander Kalinin's account on VKontakte; There is no separate public of the "Christian State" in the social network. Kalinin has just over five thousand friends; he is subscribed to many conservative or Orthodox publics - from the pages Nikita Mikhalkov and to the "Cross or Bread" community.

According to his VKontakte account, Alexander Kalinin is 33 years old; now, as far as one can tell, he lives in Lipetsk, where he moved from Norilsk a few years ago. His wife Marina is engaged in business: at the end of 2010, shortly after her marriage to Kalinin, she registered in her native Norilsk as an individual entrepreneur; according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Kalinina was engaged in the supply of food. Six months later, IP Kalinina ceased operations, and since 2013 she was listed as the general director of the Lipetsk Pension Insurance Center (CPS, in August 2017 the organization was deregistered). Kalinin's mobile phone was listed as the only contact phone number for the CPS.

Even less is known about Kalinin himself. In mid-September 2017, he deleted all his posts on VKontakte and his YouTube channel. As far as one can tell, he started posting videos on YouTube in 2013; in the first of them, according to Life, the future leader of HG said that he discovered religion after he had experienced clinical death. (After the publication of the interview, he himself stopped answering the phone.)

The fact that the history of "HG" began with the clinical death of Kalinin, said and Miron Kravchenko, the second person to comment to the media on behalf of the organization. On the official website of KhG, he is designated as “head of the media relations department” (Kalinin also called him “head of KhG for the central region”). In the 2000s, Kravchenko headed the propaganda department of the nationalist organization Russian National Union (RONS; recognized as extremist and banned in Russia); in this capacity, in particular, in May 2006, he gave comments to Kommersant after the attacks by RONS activists on gay parties in Moscow.

"Bear" at Penthouse

According to the biographical information on the ArtPolitInfo website, as a publicist, Kravchenko collaborated, for example, with the magazines Medved and Penthouse. In 2004, he is said to have joined "Union of Orthodox banner-bearers"(representatives of the organization did not answer calls from Meduza), and from 2007 to 2012 he was in the Sergiev Posad branch of the Central Cossack Army; in particular, "I made up and edited the military newspaper." On the ataman of the Sergiev Posad branch Pavel Turukhin, twice, in 2007 and in 2016, criminal cases were opened on charges of creating an extremist society and inciting ethnic hatred; there are many posts on his VKontakte against the film Matilda. Turukhin did not answer questions from Meduza.

Miron Kravchenko

In the early 2010s, Kravchenko tried to organize nationalist forces on the basis of the Murmansk cell of the Great Russia party, and subsequently "was engaged in business." Chairman " Great Russia Andrey Savelyev told Meduza that Kravchenko did indeed work as a coordinator in the Murmansk branch of the party. “He was not accepted into the party, because he failed to cope with his duties and disappeared without a trace, cutting off all contacts,” said Savelyev. - He was engaged in his “attempts” for no more than two or three months. The result was close to zero."

In the mid-2010s, after the change of power in Ukraine, Miron Kravchenko moved to Kiev, where, according to the same ArtPolitInfo, he was the coordinator of the Russian Emigrant Club and the “Russian Club in Ukraine” discussion platform. In particular, in July 2015, Kravchenko participated in the founding conference of the Anti-Putin Information Front, at which he stated that the “occupation forces” in Ukraine should not be associated with the Russians, because this plays “Putin’s favorite card” - “ map Russophobia in Ukraine". In August 2015, Front activists held a “small picket” in front of the Azerbaijani embassy in Kyiv, demanding the release of Azerbaijani political prisoners.

Ukrainian political scientist Sergei Parkhomenko told Meduza that he met Kravchenko in the fall of 2014 at a conference "Kuban is Ukraine", where the fate of the Ukrainian population of Kuban was discussed. After that, Parkhomenko crossed paths with Kravchenko several times - in particular, at meetings of the Anti-Putin Information Front. “Miron did positive things - in the media and in social networks dissuaded from participating in the war, against the ideas of the “Russian world”, ”said the political scientist.

According to him, Kravchenko constantly tossed between far-right ideas and radical Christianity. Having not found a job in Kyiv and having not received refugee status in Ukraine, at the end of 2015 he left to live in Belarus. In 2016, Kravchenko wrote to Parkhomenko that he had joined the struggle of Christianity against the global Jewish conspiracy. “The guys will be imprisoned at some point, Putin will say that he defeated everyone, but [the State Duma deputy] Poklonskaya will be appointed chief monarchist,” Parkhomenko predicted the fate of the “Christian state”.

Lawlessness of spirituality

At some point after leaving Ukraine, Kravchenko returned to Russia. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Miron Kravchenko was the owner and CEO of the Lipetsk company Mobile Technologies LLC, which existed from October 2015 to July 2017 and indicated during registration the most different types services - from newspaper printing to exploratory drilling. It was proposed to contact the company using the same mobile number of Alexander Kalinin.

Listed on the website "HG" and two more "heads" of the organization. One of them is Nikolai Fomin, “Head of the Department of Spiritual, Moral and Patriotic Education”; his phone number listed on the HG website matches the number Kalinin lists on VKontakte as his personal number. A man named Nikolai Fomin is a friend of Alexander Kalinin; he did not answer Meduza's questions.

Another declared head of "HG" is "Head of the Department of Coordination and Control regional offices» Yuri Lomov. Kalinin does not have such a person among his friends; Lomov's phone number listed on the HG website also belongs to Kalinin.

State of two

On September 18, 2017, Vasily Kryukov, a nationalist from the Russian National Union, who fled from Russia to Germany after a criminal case was opened against him under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, addressed the media. Kryukov worked as a deputy in Izhevsk, was in All-Russian Organization of Fans and after pogroms on Manezhnaya Square in 2010, according to him, he met with other fans with Vladimir Putin (precisely for speaking at a rally in memory of a Spartak fan Egor Sviridov, whose murder led to pogroms, Kryukov was going to be judged).

Kryukov confirms that there are only two people in the "Christian State" - Kalinin and Kravchenko. Both are his old acquaintances with whom he communicated in nationalist circles; He calls Kravchenko a friend, they crossed paths with him both in RONS and in Kyiv (according to Kryukov, Kravchenko is a citizen of Ukraine). Kryukov spoke on the phone with Kalinin several times.

Kravchenko called Kryukov to join the Christian State in early 2017. According to Kryukov, Kravchenko explained that it was necessary to create an Orthodox state in opposition to the "Islamic State" banned in Russia; while at that moment the goals of "HG" were declared as "informational".

Kryukov claims that Kravchenko told him that the organization was supported by “high-ranking people in the Kremlin”, without specifying, however, who exactly was doing this. Kryukov compares this situation with the cooperation between the former State Duma deputy, former leader pro-Kremlin youth movement "Young Russia" Maxim Mishchenko and founder of the Russian Image movement Ilya Goryachev, who in July 2015 received a life sentence as the creator of "Combat organization of Russian nationalists" responsible for a series of murders and attacks. At the same time, on his YouTube channel, Kryukov posted an interview with Kravchenko, who during the conversation said that “we were definitely not supervised by anyone.” In the same video, Kravchenko reports that the Christian State is “ready to go to the most drastic measures, up to its own death” in the fight against Matilda.

in one more video, laid out by Kryukov, the leader of "KhG" Kalinin tells how he met the general of the FSO when he went to the Archangel Cathedral in the Kremlin to the grave of Ivan the Terrible. According to Kalinin, along the way he found a TV channel microphone, called the TV channel and reported the find. Half an hour later, the operator of the TV channel allegedly called him. In gratitude, he gave Kalinin a photo album about the Kremlin with the FSO logo on the cover. After that, the leader of HG, according to him, was called back by the father of the operator, who turned out to be a “high officer” FSO. “If you want to attend the services in the Kremlin, call - I will write out a pass,” he allegedly told Kalinin. “After that, we got an entrance to the services, but not only - there are all sorts of other interesting moments", - says the leader of the "Christian state".

Black ensigns

Kryukov believes that the "Christian State" was created with the support of the FSB - however, he did not provide Meduza with any confirmation of his version.
The chairman of the "Great Russia" party assures that Kalinin is "a former ensign of the FSB." He was allegedly told about this by one of former employees FSB. According to Savelyev, in 2013 KhG organized an “armed attack” on the headquarters of Great Russia in Moscow. The attack occurred after the "mole" was discovered in the party and decided to expel him. "Krot", says Savelyev, came to the meeting about the expulsion with help. “A group of cowards who showed us their brass knuckles and injuries, but fled from a pair of knives. He is headed by [KhG] a complete bastard, followed by a whole trail of crimes covered by the authorities,” Savelyev said. According to Savelyev, HG activists beat people who tried to protect their garages from demolition in Moscow, disrupted Orthodox conferences. “This is an organization of bandits under the roof of the police or the FSB, which performs all sorts of dirty work on the orders of their owners,” Savelyev said. However, the media failed to find evidence of an attack on the office of Great Russia.
“Neither Miron nor Kalinin set fire to anything. All this is done by specially trained people, - says Kryukov. “Special services could have stopped the activities of these “activists” long ago, from the formal initiation of a criminal case to an informal decision about their activities.” According to him, all this is necessary “to destroy society”: “In order to demonize the parties - that there are supposedly “Orthodox terrorists”, who are opposed by the admirers of Bulat Okudzhava, liberal intelligentsia. What will happen next? There will be bloody excesses."

Fighting Orthodoxy

According to a number of researchers, a new rise in fundamentalist sentiments and an escalation of near-religious violence began in 2012, when the trial of Pussy Riot and widely discussed in the media expensive watch And apartments patriarch Kirill. At the same time, the author of the book "Political Orthodoxy" Alexander Verkhovsky notes that near-Orthodox groups (for example, people who call themselves Cossacks) often resorted to "limited violence" - they could destroy an exhibition or beat someone, but in a way that did not attract too much attention the attention of law enforcement.

The same starting point - 2012 - was called by the founder of one of the most prominent and aggressive Orthodox movements "Forty Forty" Andrey Kormukhin. “When the information attacks on the patriarch began, the scandal with Pussy Riot broke out, it became clear that the time had come for Orthodox Christians to finally go beyond the fence of the temple and stand up for their faith,” he explained in an interview with Pravoslavie.ru.

Then, in 2012, the Holy Rus' organization (not to be confused with the Christian State - Holy Rus') appeared in the public field, promising to organize “Orthodox patrols” to protect churches in connection with the Pussy Riot case. However, these patrols did not really appear.

The page of the leader of Holy Rus', Ivan Otrakovsky, on VKontakte in 2017 looks like a kind of example of Orthodox fundamentalism, as described, for example, by Kostyuk. Icons royal family here they coexist with speeches against "tolerance - the Judaic heresy of our days" and posts in support of the activists of the "God's Will" movement founded by Dmitry Enteo, who in August 2015 destroyed an exhibition of sculptures by Vadim Sidur, which, in their opinion, offended the feelings of believers.

The level of violence in this struggle, according to experts, will only grow. "If the activity Enteo“It was such petty hooliganism, now we are dealing with the next stage,” Verkhovsky is sure. He believes that “militant Orthodoxy” becomes possible with the participation of “elements of a nationalist persuasion” - including those who fought in the Donbass or simply radicalized amid the war in Eastern Ukraine (as Archpriest Alexander Pelin said, banners against “Matilda” on the godfather Petersburg on September 12, “a group of people who called themselves the ‘People’s Militia of Donbass’” carried the move. So, after the ban on RONS, from which Miron Kravchenko left, the organization “Russia will be liberated by our forces” arose in its place. On their website, the participants describe themselves as Russian Orthodox nationalists and state that they oppose the current political regime because the authorities are “destroying Russianness and perverting Orthodoxy.”

At the same time, as Verkhovsky notes, the emergence of organizations like the Christian State marks a new stage in the development of radical Orthodoxy: the balance between religion and nationalism now outweighs in the direction of the first.

Autoburn

As far as one can judge, of the radical Orthodox organizations, the Russian Orthodox Church directly supports only the Forty Sorokov. Violence is repeatedly condemned in the Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the ROC. September 12, 2017 Head of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media Vladimir Legoyda directly condemned the acts of violence associated with the film "Matilda", calling those who commit them "pseudo-religious radicals" whose actions are "alien to the worldview of any believer."
Religious scholar Roman Lunkin from the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences believes that the church leadership does not have a unified view on the rise of fundamentalist movements in general and on the situation around Matilda in particular. Legoyda condemns the fundamentalists, and his deputy Alexander Shchipkov at the same time criticizes ministerial position Vladimir Medinsky, which in turn criticizes the film's opponents.

According to Sergei Filatov, head of the Encyclopedia of Modern Religious Life in Russia project, Patriarch Kirill tries not to speak out about cases when various kinds of near-Orthodox activists show aggression, because, on the one hand, he wants to pretend that this is not worth his attention, but on the other hand, he does not want to arouse hostility among some of the intra-church factions.

Nevertheless, the patriarch from time to time comments on cases of aggressive defense of "Orthodox values" - not directly approving them, but not too condemning either. In a conversation with Andrey Kormukhin, coordinator of the Forty Sorokov movement, the patriarch mentioned the events in the Moscow park "Peat", where activists of the movement confronted local residents protesting against the construction of the temple and the installation of a cross on this site. “In this case, appropriate actions on our part should be fundamental,” Kirill said. - We cannot follow the lead of those who hate the image of the Lord's cross, especially since the cross is present even in our state symbols and it would be wrong to give up the cross of Christ for desecration.

Liturgy on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the assumption of office by Patriarch Kirill in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, February 1, 2015

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 Rus'” (KhGSR), who are promoting the use of force in the struggle for traditional values, Reedus reports.

Kind of like jihad.

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

Alexander Kalinin and Miron Kravchenko near a car with KhGSR symbols

“Someone Orthodox enters”

In their public speaking 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” comes out, 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 film’s rental will be considered as a desire to humiliate the saints of the 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 in an UAZ crashed into the Kosmos cinema and then set fire to the car. 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, Alexei Uchitel's Lendok studio in St. Petersburg was bombarded with Molotov cocktails. And then two cars parked outside the office of lawyers representing the interests of the director were set on fire and burned down. 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 Rostov region- in the Azov branch of the RSSU, as indicated on its 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 that 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 (RONS). 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 joined 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 Great Russia party he created, and took an active part in the first Russian March in the region.

Miron Kravchenko

"Right Sector", then everywhere

After the Euromaidan, Kravchenko went to Ukraine. According to 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 was filmed throwing a ridge against the background of the red and black banner of the extremist organization "Right Sector" banned in Russia »*.

Until quite recently, he had no trace of any love for the Romanov dynasty.

“The Russians are an enslaved people who have been cynically misled for centuries, palming off the ideas of Great Russia, and then sent by the thousands to death for the interests of Moscow tsars or general secretaries,” Kravchenko said.

Probably Miron Kravchenko is the real "motor" of the movement, but he has too scandalous biography, therefore, Alexander Kalinin was appointed to the role of the leader of the "Christian State", however, it turns out "not very well" for him.

So, in Kalinin's own words, the Christian State as an organization was founded back in 2010. Until 2017, the members of the KhGSR did not show themselves in any way, and Kalinin himself was engaged in keeping a video blog about Orthodoxy.

In one of his videos, he stated that he believed in Christ only in 2012 after he experienced clinical death. It turns out that at the time of the creation of his organization, he was an atheist or simply a person indifferent to religion.

Now, in the event of a criminal prosecution, Kalinin can also become a "scapegoat", and Kravchenko will make himself some new project.