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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\nOn 17 April 2012, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, took part in international conference \u201cStolypin Readings. Ways of Modernizing Russia. From Stolypin to Modernity\u201d held at the Russian Presidential Academy and Public Administration. The conference was organized by the Academy, The Russian Ministry of Economic Development and the Foundation for Studying Pyotr Stolypin\u2019s Heritage.<\/p>\n
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov opened the conference by a welcoming speech in which he underscored that \u201crespect for homeland, for its traditions and for national character along with an attempt to make necessary transformations in the interests of the nation\u201d were the most important features of Stolypin\u2019s policy.<\/p>\n
In his report, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk noted that Russia most certainly was in need of economic and political modernization. He believes, however, that it is impossible to yield an economic effect of modernization without its moral dimension \u201cas the problems piled up by our country during last century\u00a0 are of economic and also of ideological and ethical character.\u201d Metropolitan Hilarion added that the \u201creligious and moral foundations of social life had been rooted out during the years of state atheism in our country and replaced by a fragile morality of a Soviet man partly based on Christian ethical foundations.\u201d This morality lost its meaning for our citizens after the Soviet Union had collapsed. \u201cMany people have lost orientation and moral system of co-ordinates and found themselves in ideological vacuum. Old values look na\u00efve in the tough world of economic rationalism and struggle for survival.\u201d<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Hilarion believes that any transformation, be at the national level, in the family, or in a person\u2019s private life, should be attended by the perfection of human spirit and moral qualities. He also believes that we shall not build a strong state before we learn to build our own life on the firm foundation of Christian moral values.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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