COMMON VALUES
OF ALL RELIGIONS OF
RUSSIA ARE GUARANTEE OF STABILITY OF THE STATE, PUTIN THINKS
Interfax-Religiia,
12 September 2019
The common
moral and ethical values of
all religions represented in Russia are the guarantee of the
stability of the
Russian state, Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks.
"We have a
multiconfessional
country, but if one looks more attentively, at the base of all
our confessions
the values are identical. As regards the moral and ethical
components, they are
practically all the same," Putin said in Botlikh on Thursday at
a meeting
with Dagestani militias who participated in the battles against
terrorists in
August and September of 1999,
"The fact that
such an attitude
toward these values has been preserved among our peoples is the
main guarantee
of our governmental stability," the president noted.
Putin also
called attention to the fact
that in recent years in Dagestan, 2,000 mosques have been built.
"Those
who came here with weapons in their hands, under the banner of
Islam, would
never have built so many mosques here," he noted.
The president
thanked the Dagestanis,
who assured him that both they and their already grown children
"will
stand wherever necessary" for the defense of the motherland.
"Thank you for
those words. The
bandits, when they came here, made very many demagogic
declarations. But what
kind of people were they? I recall, when I came in 1999, you
said to me at that
time: 'They, when they left, robbed our homes and took
everything from the
people, an old television, an old refrigerator, they loaded on
trucks and took
them away," Putin recalled.
"What kind of people is this? Who are they? They are bandits," he concluded. (tr. by PDS, posted 12 September 2019)
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