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19 May 2014, 14:37
Human rights advocate recommends Kyiv to learn from the Donetsk People’s Republic to respect religions and cultures
Moscow, May 19, Interfax – Head of the Human Rights Center at the World Russian People’s Council Roman Silantyev welcomes language and religious positions in the draft of the Donetsk People’s Republic Constitution.
“We can only rejoice about success of legal people’s authorities of the Donetsk Region. They manage not to only to deter superior forces of their opponents, but find time to make very correct texts of a basic law for their new state. Kyiv comrades striving to join the European Union should learn from the Donetsk residents how to respect religion and culture,” Silantyev told an Interfax-Religion correspondent on Monday.
According to him, today the divided Russian people start uniting and he is joyful about that support, which “ordinary Russian citizens provide their brothers from Donbass and Lugansk Region.”
According to the draft of the Donetsk People’s Republic Constitution spread in the Internet, Russian and Ukrainian are announced state languages in the Republic and “primary and prevailing faith is the Orthodox faith.”
Historical experience and role of Orthodoxy and the Russian Church “are recognized and respected as a system-forming foundation of the Russian world,” At the same time, the DPR declares the freedom of confession.
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