World Russian People's Council

The World Council of the Russian people (Russian Всемирный Русский Народный Собор ), sometimes called World Assembly of the Russian people, is a forum and an international public organization.

It brings people to whom the present and the future of Russia 's heart. At its council meeting attended by representatives from the government, associations, represented in Russia religions, individuals from science and culture, as well as delegations of the Russian diaspora abroad part.

It was founded in 1993 and is currently headed by Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow and All Russia. Before that, it was headed by Patriarch Alexius II.

In June 2005 it received the status of an advisory organization to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

During its tenth meeting, held at Christ the Saviour Cathedral of 4 to 6 April 2006 the council decided the Russian Declaration of Human Rights and thus had in the West have become prevalent " distorted view of human rights " back. Particularly went the council with the idea of ​​moral autonomy into court the modern understanding of human rights posits that the moral autonomy of the individual may find his place only in the other individual's autonomy. , there is no supreme authority who can distinguish between good and evil. It would lead to the decline of modern civilization, when the sovereignty and rights of a single individual may be charged in an absolute value, because then missing the counterweight of a moral responsibility There were values ​​that are no less important than human rights;. these values ​​are " faith, morality, the sanctity of holy objects and one's fatherland " counted.