Zyuganov assures the Church of his desire to cooperate

14 August 2008, 17:38

Moscow, August 14, Interfax - Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov assures his party doesn't care for the statements of Church representatives that it's necessary to condemn Bolshevik regime and is ready to cooperate with them.

"We have always aimed at full cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church and Orthodox world. We are a part of the Orthodox world as one third of our electorate and allies are faithful believers. No other political force in Russia has such an Orthodox nuclear," Zyuganov says in his article cited in the Communist Party website.

"Thus, he summed up, even when some representatives of clergy try to blackmail us, we accept it with patience, without offence or anger. We are ready to convince our opponents both with good word and useful work that we have more in common than dividing and that all of us are children of Russia and every of us on his place is ready to work for her welfare."

The Communist leader writes, "we're in a new epoch," which, he believes, makes new demands to political forces.

"The most important is to save national identity and a special role in it is given to protection of Russian people who form the state, which is impossible to do without historical mission of Orthodoxy and the Russian Orthodox Church," the article said.

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