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The next morning, I was in the office, and I was told that it was wrong, that it was possible, that it was impossible, that it was worth thinking about, that it was impossible to think about, that it was necessary to read, that it was impossible, and so on. When this system is destroyed, and I think that all of you know that this is the most complete change of history, the change that has happened to us, has happened, then a person remains on the same level as an unlimited set of all kinds of goods, in this case, for example, culture. Books, culture of teaching, music, different things, the development of such people. Nevertheless, this is what I support.

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Openness is not a difficult test, but a test that can be overcome. I thank you for coming to the human, human being, which is always protected by the system of normal human relations, for the fact that people, open to the world, in general, in one way or another, are still assimilating the basic values of modern civilization, respect for the individual, human rights, primitive, there you can consider it in different ways, the expression of democracy. I think this is one of the reasons why we can talk about inevitability, about the solution to the crisis, no matter how much time and power there is.

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Now I want to dwell a little on the question of the role of the United Protest. Of course, this was extremely interesting for us. We had both special research and batteries of questions, and specially built special approaches to understanding this problem. There is a situation here, as Amai says, despite what is happening, as if a great revival of the interests of society has taken place. This is, as for everyone, a form of spiritual life, both familiar for historical familiar, and not familiar.

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Next, of course, there was the development of all the possibilities for the creation of organizations, for the creation of a military, for the creation of any other thing. This affects two things at the level of social life. First, in a rather large way, there is a society, and here it is interesting to see what it has given and will give in the future, whether it is a popular or a serious approach to education, and different, including non-traditional for Russia. Secondly, hope, quite often expressed hope, that the institutions, social institutions of the Church will help society.

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In the first years of the Perestroika, every year we see the growth of the number of people who regard themselves as believers. At present, this growth is almost non-stop. We get about such a distribution. 40% consider themselves believers, of which in Russia about 35 Orthodox and the rest are non-believers. 40% consider themselves non-believers, the rest are not sure to say, and in different cases, the attitude towards this religion is different. This situation is typical for many Western countries, especially, in my opinion, the old Pakistani countries.

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At the same time, the number of people who regard themselves as believers is always significantly higher than the number of people who perform the rites. We asked now in the spring how many people celebrated Easter. 80% celebrated. The Church was 18%. We asked who celebrated May 1st. 50%. Yes, this is also a tradition. As you know, now, May 1st is an official tradition of the diversity of the Orthodox. By the way, according to our data, we asked within the framework of the former Soviet Union what holidays are the most important for a person.

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In Russia, there are two most important holidays. One is the New Year, and the second is the New Year's Eve. According to the Protestant countries, the most important is Christmas. According to the Muslim countries, it is the New Year's Eve. And Russia is very accustomed to the secular, or now we will say, even home holidays, which mark the human life. Now I will give you a few more examples.

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I think that the mass expression of interest in the religious life, in the role of the Church in the creation is not identical to the mass expression of interest in the religious life. I think that no one can be identical to the mass expression of interest in the religious life. A few years ago, and now, people who consider values very important for themselves, the majority of our Orthodox Christians, of course, are Christians, at least 10 percent of the population.

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The rest are adjoining, supporting. For example, in one of our last questions in May, we asked about the role that religion plays in life. 4 percent said that it plays the role of religion. 22 percent said that it does not play the role of religion. 38 percent said that it does not. I have a slightly curious question. Last month, in June, due to our different political events and expectations,

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we asked people what qualities should the future president or possible president of Russia have. There were different types of people, it turns out that the most valuable were highly educated people, intelligent people, and so on. But there was an opportunity to express his views on his attitude towards religion. It turns out that 18 percent consider it necessary to have a clear opinion. 6 percent consider that he should be a president.

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The rest consider that it is indistinguishable. It is clear that this is a dissolution of the important type of the president, and it is clear that he should be a president. I would like to make the following conclusion. I do not believe that he can be a president at the end of the 20th century in a country that has experienced a post-20th century civilization. I do not think that we should regret that we do not have large-scale Islamic fundamentalism.

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We have a large-scale Orthodox fundamentalism, too, but there are some elements of Protestant fundamentalism. There is some negativity in this. But I think that, judging by the events that we know today, these moments in our lives are inevitable, serious for many people. This is something imaginary, something that concerns a fairly large-scale type. I think that if Russia really manages to enter the world civilization

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of the destroyed year, and perhaps not of the world civilization, but of the paradigm, then the main role will be played by the culture developed by the European civilization, by the modern Christianity, in its conjunction, but not necessarily directly through the Church. Because this culture, as it seems to me and many observers, many sociologists, has entered the life of Europe,

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a large part of America, a large part of other countries, through everything that affects people's lives, through habits, philosophies, literature, law, the state, and so on. I think that if we manage to do this, I have hope that we will, I cannot, based on what I know, be completely homo-nazis here, I think that we will succeed in the restoration and re-acceleration,

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we will succeed in using the values that we live by, that we work by, that we resist and defend, but nevertheless allow people to live, to survive. In conclusion, I want to remember that when the 19th century ended, the 20th century began, the situation seemed to many observers to be hopeless, the very essence of civilization seemed hopeless.

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There was even such a feeling that it was a failure, in French, that it now exists, on many grounds, it is not due. Nevertheless, humanity has survived this difficult century, and there is more useful work to be done. This work allows us to hope that we will be able to survive our very difficult 20th century here, and no worse than many others, we will survive the 21st century. Thank you.

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We know that the publication is being ready for the newspaper and the newspaper. We are very grateful to the journalists who came here despite the weekend. And the organizers of the conference are welcome to any questions. And the organizers of the conference will be able to ask any questions.

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Serge Doss, Director of the Christian Research Center. Mikhail Moskovsky, Director of the International Center for Human Values. Andrei Zbarsky, the Executive Manager of the International Center for Human Values. And a lot of participants of the conference are ready to be asked.

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My name is Natalia Ustpova, I am the Director of the Promotion Advertising Agency. So we are at this part, and we think we are certainly going to spend the rest of the meeting, I think we have at this conference addressed what I believe is the most important issue facing Russia and its future today. And it's an issue that is deeper than politics and economics. It's an issue of the spirit, soul, and mind.

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And I think as Dr. Carl Henry spoke so eloquently, he made the point, and I hope we will be able to discuss it a little further in these few moments together, that no lasting change can take place without focusing on world changes that are based on some absolute moral values. There have been many good ideas presented at this conference over three days. And I'm grateful that Onyok magazine will be able to disseminate this information throughout Russia.

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But not only Onyok, but other magazines and members of the mass media who have been here at one time or another covering this conference. And I think that for the future development of our country, we need to address moral values in a very, very natural way. We are constantly changing our economic policy, we are constantly changing our laws. We are always changing the process of changing our economic policy and our laws.

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And sometimes we are changing our ideology. But I think everyone can understand that we can change nothing without changing a human being. During the past 75 years, we have created a certain type of a man, a state person, who expects the state to give him the pleasure of being a leader,

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and he will be faithful to the service of the Tsar. And from understanding this, he will be very faithful to the people and to the people's happiness. And when he wants to become the leader, he becomes the initiator and starts providing a wonderful vision for the future. And just to look for, in general, for moral and even just for material support of human health,

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a lot of people just were lost. And we are not prepared for them to do this, and we are not able just to trust them. And that's why the talk in the conference was quite actual, and we were discussing the topic, what is like it is and how can we achieve it.

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But of course, we are not seeking success for just half criminal structures as we do today. And we are not seeking for success at any price. But we are seeking for success to be in harmony with more ethical gender standards. And we are seeking for success of inner beings.

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That's why it was very interesting for us to meet the national organization, which succeeded greatly in financial, but which is constantly seeking for moral choice and for moral justification. For us, it is clear that many values that are shared by the Americans are very important for us. Human rights, respect for minorities, unconditional guarantee of freedom,

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responsibility, responsibility, initiative, respect for human dignity, respect for human independence. All of these are very important for a modern person to be successful in the way I am talking about. And of course, all of these issues are very important for a contemporary human being to be successful. What are the ways of making such a human?

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The majority of our American guests are sure that we must be thinking in spreading the spiritual values. We do not object to this point, but we take into consideration that these spiritual values have been brought up in American families for many generations. And in this country for many years, we have just felt the effigy of the Ukrainian. In addition, for a long period of time, we have been in the possession of totalitarian ideology.

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We were told what we needed and what we did not need to do. And we are not very enthusiastic about spreading the real spiritual values about our society. But it does not mean that we can't find mutual understanding. Just the most important thing is that we believe that the local spiritual values penetrate our society and they must penetrate into our society.

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They penetrate through literature and art. They penetrate through common sense. They penetrate through the media. And they penetrate through our belief that only through these values can we build a community of people.

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And besides through the church, our belief that only with spiritual values we can build a community of people. That's why despite maybe unlikeness or discord between American and Russian tribes, we have much more in common than the English-speaking migrants. How to teach people to follow us and to be responsible.

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How to solve the problems of immigration, to come and to enter into the human life. We discussed and maybe we will discuss the problems of moral values in Poland. The problems of moral recovery. The problems of labor immorality.

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And maybe the problems of changing all our lives to become more moral. So I think just the most important point of this meeting was that we met at last and we shared our opinions and we looked each other in the eye. And I'm sure that though we may find un-moral actions, un-moral deeds in American society, un-moral values which sometimes take place in our society, nevertheless, we found people who are ready to discuss moral values.

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Thank you very much, Mikhail. We have almost lost the opportunity to ask the press questions. Dr. Sharap Lindy, coordinator of Christian Resource Center, can ask them. Well, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce Dr. Carl Henry. There he is.

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Dr. Henry is a noted theologian and author of many books in the West and around the world which are widely read. He is the instigator and the original reason that we wanted to put this conference together. As I said earlier today in the conference, he has been compared to Calvin and Augustine in his contribution to our understanding of theology. I think one of the important outcomes of this conference was that all of the participants, those who spoke and those who attended,

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agreed on the importance of values and morality in organizing a stable civil society. I think that we are seeing great strides being made in the Russian-American dialogue in our willingness to face morality and moral questions and reconsider human rights and their basis in origin. I look forward to continuing this dialogue that we have begun.

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This is just the beginning and I think we have a long way to go, but at least now I think we have something to work with. Thank you. Thank you. Andrei Svarsky, the executive director of the Russian-American Council. He was one of the co-sponsors of our conference.

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So, dear guests, I am very happy to be here in the... ...how this conference was born, how much it was prepared, what human and financial costs it required, and all that came out of the conference. Now the question to Michael. Who the idea was to organize this conference? How long did it take? Which were your financial expenses and human expenses? And are you happy with the results of this conference? Did you achieve the goal?

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So, the idea was born in the Christian Resource Center and they just appealed and gave me a proposal to be a co-sponsor. But just this... ...just almost at the same time we had a meeting with Abagnale and we decided to cooperate in the field of moral values and just all these two events coincided. And I proposed Abagnale also to take part in the organizing of this conference because it was one of the most tactical and most widely-reviewed magazines and they were just glad to have three of us.

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They said, in chief, when you're planning to do this, you put the idea and then we start the preparation for the conference. The preparation took about half a year. We contacted all our speakers and they organized special committees. And I think that the results of the conference are other people's work. At least we found some tools to share and I think the results are theirs. We got financial support from the main organizers of this conference, Christian Resource Center, and I think that we'll find some more financial support for the reports from this conference and summary from the conference.

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Thank you. I have a question. Have you held such conferences in the US, in other countries, in San Francisco, in the Center, or with someone else? And why was Russia chosen for this conference? If it was in the US, why did Russia organize such a conference? And did you have a deal with such work in the country of Eastern Europe or somewhere else?

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We chose Russia to have this conference, specifically Moscow, because that's where the Christian Resource Center is located. How long has it been here? Well, the Christian Resource Center has been officially working since February 1st of this year. And in that very short amount of time, through the leadership of Dr. Sharon Lindsay, it has achieved a large number of activities that has initiated dialogue among many, many people in sectors of Russian society as well as Western society who are present in Russia. And in that very short amount of time, through the leadership of Dr. Sharon Lindsay, it has achieved a large number of activities that has initiated dialogue among many, many people in sectors of Russian society as well as Western society who are present in Russia.

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But this is the first conference which you organized by Center, is it? Yes, this is the first major conference organized by the Christian Resource Center. However, we have done many smaller seminars on various topics for Russians and also for expatriates over here. This is the first major conference organized by the Christian Resource Center. However, we have done many smaller seminars on various topics for Russians and also for expatriates over here. But also in the past, especially before I came to Russia a year ago, both reference from the Central Pacific Society in Seattle and I worked on a major conference at Seattle Pacific University called Faith and Foreign Policy.

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But before that, also during the work of Dr. Sharon Lindsay, who is now a professor at the University of Seattle, they organized a conference in Seattle in the Center of the Russian Federation. And we began to understand the importance of having major regional and national and international conferences to help people focus on issues that they might not focus on otherwise. But other important players in the development of this conference was one is two of our board members actually, but one in particular, Anita Dynica, who is the leader, she and her husband, of the Russian-American Center for Spiritual Renewal. Who provides guidance and also custom research, who is also on our board, Xenia Denin, at the University of Seattle there.

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While Philip Walters is our board member, Xenia is in Moscow much of the time and also meets with us and provides guidance and information. And of course we have always been well aware of Dr. Moskovsky's work here in Russia and in America. So while the Christian Resource Center is just maybe a few months old, maybe a half a year, we had the right partners on our board and in our acquaintances, professionals. It allowed us to put on a conference with no particular agenda other than putting on the table moral, ethical, values, issues for us all to share our opinions on.

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And again, what is very rewarding as a result of this conference is that everybody here, everybody who took part, agrees on the importance of morality and ethics and values and human rights and all of the good things that stem off from that. Even though we may disagree as the further source of that. Although, I can say that all of us here, each of us may have been looking for the exact direction of morality in each of us, and we always have been in that sphere that we all agree on. But nevertheless, it was a great pleasure to be together and to have this discussion.

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All of the speakers, Russian and Western, Dr. Kurshinsky, Dr. Faust, Dr. Rudman, everybody, including Dr. Adelstein, had a unique perspective to the issue which was worth considering. We're very happy with the outcome. I'm very happy and happy that Dr. Kurshinsky, Dr. Faust, Dr. Rudman, and Dr. Adelstein were always honest. They all discussed this issue, they all came to it from their own point of view, but they were united in that this issue was not discussed.

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Question for Serge Dost. You said on the first day in your introductory remarks that this conference was the first step in a process. I understand that the remarks from the conference will be published, but other than that, what other follow-up and what other processes, hopefully, do you have in mind for either the conference outcomes or the CRC? Actually, Sharon could answer too.

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The plan for the result of the conference was to initiate these discussions and dialogue on moral values and a changing society in other cities of Russia. We're hoping by the publication of stories about the conference in Pogonyov magazine and by publication of the papers presented at the conference, their wide distribution throughout Russia, that these conversations will take place wherever the books and the magazines reach in other cities throughout this country. We're hoping that the publication of stories about the conference will be a great result for the Russian-Russian relations in other cities of Russia.

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I think that you really want to add a better publishing partner to Pogonyov magazine. The distribution network that Pogonyov has allows the results of this conference to be readily disseminated in a wide, far-reaching way. The Christian Resource Center also will be distributing the resulting book. Perhaps, the Russian Hospital Center will also help in that regard. We're also looking to publish the book in English.

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I really haven't explored that too much at this point because we wanted to make sure the Russian edition got out first. We will be exploring ways and avenues to distribute this book far and wide in the West. Just a quick follow-up question. Can you tell me how many subscribers there are to the magazine? The first half of the year, the circulation was more than 300,000.

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Now, the subscription is for the entire Russian edition, for the second half of the year. Unlike most of the editions that have retained 30% of the subscribers, we have retained more than 70% of the subscribers. The second half of the year, we have 70% of the subscribers. I'm sorry, how much is the subscription price? If you buy the book, it will be 70 and 100 rubles. But if you are a subscriber, then it is 30-40 rubles.

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Mr. Muskorskiy would like to share what he shared in our meeting last week about distributing it among committees in Parliament and leaders in Russia. So, everyone can subscribe to this magazine, but before the subscribers get this magazine, I would like to add that on April 1, the anniversary of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union was celebrated. Our magazine has 94 years of history, but we celebrated 70 years of the Soviet Union.

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President Yeltsin was the president of this corporation, and he said that he is generally also the worst editor, because during 50 years he is deleting every issue of this magazine. Part of the magazine is distributed abroad, and a large number in America. We have a lot of circulation, a lot of subscribers in the West and in the Third World. Despite the difficult relations within the former republics of the USSR, such circulation has been preserved in all the absolute republics of the USSR.

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And though we know that our relations between the former USSR republics are not very good, nevertheless we have circulation in all former USSR. We will return to Yanukovych later, but if possible, we will return to the conference. Thank you for watching. Thank you.

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