Ryabykh Yuri

SALMIN: IN MEMORIAM Materials from Politeia special seminar meeting devoted to A.M.Salmin’s 60th Anniversary

February, 18^th, 2011 the founder of our journal Aleksei Mikhailovich Salmin would have turned 60. The seminar Politeia named after him held a special meeting Salmin: In Memoriam arranged to coincide with his Anniversary (supported by the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Science, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Public Political Studies Center). It was conducted in the traditional within the world science genre of homage: participants of the seminar delivered their reports that were related in this way or the other to Salmin’s scientific interests, elaborated on his ideas and hypotheses bringing them back into the active scientific vocabulary. In this issue we are publishing reports by Alexander Galkin, Yury Pivovarov, Boris Makarenko, Yury Senokosov, Tatyana Alekseeva, Svyatoslav Kaspe, and hegumen Philipp (Ryabykh).

DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2011-61-2-5-37

Political parties of Russia and Russian Orthodox Church

According to the author, Russian Orthodox Church is faced with the problem of adaptation to a secular character of Russian politics. Having rejected participation in electoral campaigns and support of any ideology, the Church had accepted secularity of party activity long before it was inscribed in the 1995 law on parties prohibiting confessionalism in party life.

As for the parties, just few of them try to adjust party ideology to traditional religious values. Common projects of action just start to be elaborated on the basis of common public positions of parties and religious organizations. The author believes that there is no party today with clear vision of what policy towards religious associations they are to stand for.

DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2004-32-124-148

Pages: 124-148