CYRILL GUNDYAEV

Metropolitan Kyrill Gundyaev , "secretary of state" for the Moscow Patriarchy, said that separation of the Church and the State is "a soft apartheid." What a man! Real Lord of Newspeak. (July, 2001)

Few old quotes from speeches of Metropolitan Cyrill Gundyayev. Metropolitan of Smolensk, head of the Department of External Church Relations. Nesavisimaya gaseta - Independent newspaper 5.6.1993. Nataliya Babasyan. An interview with Metropolitan Cyrill of Smolensk. He is the head of the Department for external relations of Moscow Patriarchate, member of WCC, famous for his "liberal views". His point of view is that if Americans wanted to help they should just give money to Russian Christians without coming themselves. "It seems to me that it will be correct to defend our people from those missionaries who come in Russia with duplicate and hidden motives. This must be done by methods common to all democratic systems. I should propose next method. If I want to preach in Switzerland I need permission to work there. If I am a tourist I have no right to act professionally there. So why do preachers coming to our country as tourists have a right to preach on TV?"