Russian experts propose creating program to disarm totalitarian cults

RIA Novosti correspondent Olga Lipich Moscow October 28, 2003

Russian experts proposed creating a program to disarm totalitarian cults that threaten the national security of the country.

With such an initiative appeared the participants of a "round table" discussion held on Tuesday in Moscow on the topic, "Totalitarian cults - weapons of mass destruction." Participants included academic psychologists, doctors, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and of state agencies.

"The majority of cult organizations have an American origin," announced the director of the clinical department of the Moscow NII of psychiatry of the Russian Health Ministry, Yuri Polishchuk. He believes that the invasion of cultism into Russia is "a carefully planned out and coordinated operation, which is still going on to this day and which has a huge financial backing from foreign and influential sponsors."

The ultimate aim of the activities of these cults, in expert opinion, "was to disconnect Russian youth from participating in state and social activities and themselves to undermine the future of our society and state."

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Totalitarian cults in Russia became "suppliers of personnel" for terrorist acts, conclude experts

Moscow October 28, 2003 RIA Novosti correspondent Olga Lipich

Totalitarian cults in Russia have today become the "suppliers of personnel" for terrorist acts. Fighting this ill-will requires a combination of state, church and society.

This was theconclusion come o by the participants of a "round table" on "Totalitarian cults - weapons of mass destruction," which was held Tuesday in Moscow.

In the words of the general director of the Research Center on Strategic Development and National Security, Igor Oleinik, in the past few years, two new "worrying aspects" have emerged. The first was the active penetration of cultists into academic associations and associations for social assistance, including drug dependency. Secondly, active links have begun to develop between totalitarian cults and terrorist organizations.

In the organization of the most recent terrorist act in Chechnia with the use of suicidists, mechanisms of the activities of totalitarian cults have been detected," noted Oleinik. Explosions in the building of government in December of the last year, in his words, which the Slavs also committed, were used in quasi-Islamic totalitarian cults.

"The state cannot decide this problem on a person-by-person basis, the expert was convinced. "Thus totalitarian cults hunt for people who are looking for faith. The church is not able to cope with this problem on a person-by-person basis either, thus force frequently needs to be used, which only the state really has. Of course direct and active participation by the public is needed."

Oleinik also noted that in recent years, the "government has somewhat turned away from the problem of cultism, and we want to bring the government back into the triad in the fight with totalitarian cults."

In the capacity of practical decisions the "round table" participants proposed improvement of Russian legislation and development of: new concepts of putting into operation the "Law on freedom of conscience and religious associations," a legal project on totalitarian cults and psychological terrorism, an addition to the RF criminal code an article on criminal culpability of psychological coercion, prohibiting operations in the establishment of the state budget connected with academics or social assistance by cult adepts/as the court decides, and also to create a state information-consultation center on the problems of cultism.

Participants of the discussion included leading academic psychologists, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Homeland Security and other state agencies.

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Nearly a million Russians drawn into various cults

October 28, 2003 Moscow RIA Novosti correspondent Olga Lipich

There are estimated to be from 300 to 500 different cults in Russia. The number of people drawn into destructive cults and occultic religious organizations comes to 1 million, 70 percent of which are young people ages 18 to 27.

Such information, as an RIA "Novosti" correspondent reported, was promulgated on Tuesday in Moscow in the course of a "round table" on the topic, "Totalitarian cults - weapons of mass destruction." Participating in the discussion were leading academic psychologists, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, along with Russian Homeland Security and other state agencies.

Alexander Dvorkin, Ph.D., president of the Center of Religious Research, and author [in Russian] of the term "totalitarian cult," estimates the number of "regular" cultists at a minimum of 600-800,000.

According to what he said, "imported cults, such as Scientologists, Moonists, Krishnas and Jehovahs Witnesses" were operating on Russian territory. Dvorkin classifies as "domestic cults" the Bogorodichniy Center in Moscow, Ashram Sambaly in Novosibirsk, the Vissarion cult in Krasnodar Krai, the Radasteya in the Urals, and others.

The most rapidly growing of today's cults is the neo-Pentecostal movement, which has embraced all the Urals, Siberia and Far East," noted Dvorkin, "the Jehovahs Witnesses and Mormons continue to grow now as before."

For the rest of the cults the influx of members equals those leaving at the present moment. "The cultists are squeezed like lemons materially, physically and morally for several years until they're of no further use."

According to the experts, cults are actively buying up real estate, doing lobby work in state agencies, initiating court proceedings allegedly for violations of the law on freedom of conscience, and have tried to root themselves deeper into Russian society.

A totalitarian cult, according to Dvorkin's definition, is an authoritarian organization for whom the primary meaning of existence is power and money, which is obtained under cover of pseudo-religions, pseudo-culturalness, and other pseudo-goals. Many psycho-cults also have connections with totalitarian cults.

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