Russian Church has proposals for Strategy-2020 and plans to discuss them with Leading Parties

Moscow, July 10, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate has worked out a complex of proposals for the Strategy of Russia Social Economic Development until 2020.

“We will soon voice the kernel of these proposals officially. Public figures, scientists actively cooperating with the Russian Church helped work them out,” executive secretary of the Economics and Ethics expert council at the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Pavel Shashkin has told Interfax-Religion on Friday.

“We reached an agreement that our proposals will be discussed in frames of the United Russia’s (Russian political party – IF) Central social conservative club. We hope it will become a departing point for wider church and party consultations not only with the United Russia, but with other parliamentary parties as well,” the church official said.

He pointed out “the United Russia had officially chosen social conservatism as its ideology, which is rather close to ideological positions of the Russian Church and in many ways intersects with ideas of Christian democracy.”

Shashkin noted that the Church document reflected the position that “world order should be based on values of justice, efficiency and social solidarity.”

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