Russian Orthodox Church Challanges «Western» concept of Human Rights.

Eurasia Daily Monitor.

In its persistent efforts to craft a new national ideology that would underscore Russia's «civilizational uniqueness» and distinguish it from the liberal West, the Kremlin leadership has turned to the Orthodox Church —the country's most conservative and anti-Western institution. Predictably, the "unholy alliance" of state bureaucrats and church hierarchy proved to be not terribly inventive: it could come up only with a recycled credo of 19th century Russian conservatism—Pravoslaviye, Samoderzhaviye, Narodnost (Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality).