And he received his first sentence in a criminal case for falsifying sick leave

The detained leader of the Christian State - Holy Rus' organization, Alexander Kalinin, received two criminal sentences and spent years in prison. In the Norilsk City Court we were told about the details of Kalinin’s crimes. To rob a neighbor, which ended in her murder, Kalinin and his drug addict friends developed a whole plan, and Kalinin played a key role: everything was calculated that the woman would open the door for him. Well, he received his first sentence for falsifying sick leave.

Alexander Kalinin grew up in the Talnakh district of Norilsk, where he began his criminal “activities.” He went to work quite early, because there was not enough money in the family (at least for his needs). But Kalinin did not like work as such.

At one time he was listed as a carpenter in the company, and was also involved in apartment renovations. But since the “miracle” repairman could not be relied upon (he might not show up at the site for several days), he did not stay with the construction crews for long. In general, he considered himself more big-headed than handy. In order not to be thrown out of another job, I decided to fake a sick leave. And soon he realized that he was good at it, and he could even make money from it. In general, Alexander opened a “business” of producing false documents.

He did them at home, on a desktop computer,” says Lyudmila Ushakova, assistant to the chairman of the Norilsk City Court. “Then people, using these fake certificates of incapacity for work, were released from work and received payments. The deception became clear, and a case was opened against Kalinin under Article 327 of the Criminal Code “Forgery, production of sales documents.” It was possible to prove two episodes of manufacturing counterfeits. But it is possible that there were many more.

On January 29, 2003, Kalinin was sentenced to two years in prison with a probationary period of also two years.

In the courtroom then Kalinin repented and promised never to break the law under any circumstances. But then no one knew that by this time he had already committed another, much more terrible crime.

In the high-rise building where he lived with his parents, Alexander was friends mainly with older guys. Among them were two drug addicts. Kalinin knew very well about their passions, but this did not interfere with their friendship. The three of them often sat on a bench at the entrance, drank beer, and wandered around the area. During one of these get-togethers in July 2002, he let slip that he and his mother often visited their neighbor in the stairwell. She works as a manager in a large company. “She doesn’t have a lot of money there,” Alexander said about her.

Two drug addict friends realized that their neighbor had money and decided to rob her. However, the woman did not open the door to strangers. Then they decided to “turn off” the light on the landing in the hope of luring her out of the apartment. Kalinin was sitting at the computer at the time and reacted painfully to the power outage - he told his mother that the equipment was about to burn out. But another neighbor came out to fix the electricity. The light turned on. The drug addicts knocked him out again ten minutes later. And it was then that Alexander came out onto the landing to find out for himself what was going on.

He saw his comrades, and they told him about their idea, offering to join in the robbery. “She knows you, she won’t be afraid to let you in,” said one of them (follows from the materials of the criminal case). Alexander agreed. The plan was this: the neighbor opens the door to her friend’s son, two people (the file says they were wearing black hats, probably balaclavas) before her eyes first knock him down, then fly into the apartment. And then they rob and run away. And it seems like Kalinin had nothing to do with it.

But can you really calculate everything with drug addicts? This time too, everything did not go according to plan. The robbers did not push or kick Alexander. And they behaved in such a way that it was clear that they were friends.

They taped the neighbor’s mouth, tied her up and threw a blanket over her, they say in the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court. - We turned the apartment over in search of money and found 75 thousand rubles in different places (under the closet, in bedside tables, in books). And then they decided to kill the owner as a witness. They found a wire and strangled him with it. The body was moved to the bathroom.

The money was divided equally - 25 thousand rubles per brother. To explain where he got the money, Kalinin came up with a version: supposedly these funds were given to him in advance for the future renovation of several apartments.

But he turned out to be a weakling and a braggart,” recalls one of his acquaintances, Nikolai N. “He himself let it slip that he robbed his neighbor’s apartment. After this, he and two accomplices were detained. I was at the trial in May 2003. Alexander did not admit his guilt. More precisely, he said that he was guilty of robbery, but not of murder. But two accomplices insisted that it was the three of them who killed. I don't think they were lying. What was the point? By the way, they ended up getting 12.5 years each. Alexander was given the least of all - 8.5 (and this takes into account the two years he did not serve for falsifying documents).

The court explained such a relatively short term by the fact that Alexander himself initially did not intend to rob his neighbor and joined his comrades. Besides, they were drug addicts, and this one looked almost like a nerd. His mother cried at the trial - he spends all day at the computer or works, reads religious literature, does not hang out in clubs...

The judge who tried Kalinin for murder resigned, but the court itself remembers this case. And do you know why? Because “the guy had a very decent appearance.” The court workers could not connect in their minds the image of a person with such “clean, sad eyes” and such a terrible crime.

And Alexander himself, after being released from a maximum security colony, decided not to return to Norilsk. Apparently, because the city is small, everyone there remembered him very well.

Soon after his release, Kalinin gained some popularity on the Internet by writing about his life on a blog - supposedly it was then that he “saw a new path.”

Kalinin moved to the Lipetsk region, where his father once lived. He tried to realize his passion for money by becoming an entrepreneur - for example, he played on the stock exchange. Kalinin, by the way, claimed that several companies were registered in his name; he allegedly received a “higher legal education” in Norilsk, had a law office there, but “at the moment he sold everything and left.”

Apparently, Kalinin did not succeed in business as such in the Lipetsk region - the main source of his income was collecting money “for the construction of a community.”

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Several people, including the leader of the organization "Christian State - Holy Rus'" Alexander Kalinin, were detained and taken to the police as part of a criminal case of arson of cars near the office of the lawyer of the director of the film "Matilda" Alexei Uchitel, Konstanin Dobrynin.

“Three people were detained on suspicion of arson - one in Moscow, two in the Lipetsk region,” a law enforcement source told Interfax.

According to the agency's interlocutor, a native of Transnistria is suspected of organizing the crime. Kalinin's procedural status has not yet been determined; he continues to be questioned. A source from Gazeta.Ru believes that the social activist was detained in connection with his calls to burn cinemas.

— Konstantin Dobrinin (@k_dobrinin) September 20, 2017

“As part of the criminal investigation, during operational search activities, employees of the Center for Combating Extremism, together with the criminal investigation department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, identified three persons suspected of committing this crime. One of the suspects was detained in Moscow, and the other two - on the territory of the Lipetsk region,” official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk confirmed to TASS.

She clarified that “one of the suspects was detained in Moscow, and the other two in the Lipetsk region.” According to her, searches were carried out in the places of residence of the detainees, during which items relevant to the investigation of the criminal case were seized.

“Kalinin was detained in the Lipetsk region, the issue of initiating a criminal case against him under the article of inciting hatred or hostility is being considered,” added Interfax’s source in law enforcement agencies.

A RIA Novosti source in law enforcement agencies reported that the detainees are suspected of involvement not only in arson, but also in the “mining” of the shopping center. “Currently, the detainees are giving confessions. Their involvement in the arson of two cars near the office of a company providing legal assistance to the director of the film “Matilda” Alexei Uchitel has been established. In addition, the detainees made a call about the “mining” of the Cheryomushki shopping center in Vladivostok,” the agency’s interlocutor clarified.

According to him, members of the organization were detained on Tuesday evening in Moscow and on Wednesday morning in the city of Gryazi, Lipetsk region. The suspects were living on fake documents. During the searches, extremist literature, leaflets “Burn for Matilda,” and containers with a flammable mixture were confiscated.

Poklonskaya hastened to take credit for her achievements in the fight against extremism

State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who is waging a targeted fight against the film “Matilda,” stated in a commentary to RBC that Kalinin was detained at her parliamentary request. “It is precisely in response to my parliamentary request addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General to take criminal procedural measures against persons who are radically inclined with signs of extremism (including the fact of distributing leaflets about arson, threats, etc.), decisions have been made, the evaluation of which the supervisory authority is authorized to give,” she said.

Poklonskaya made it clear that she considers it necessary to strengthen law enforcement measures against “any manifestations of extremism,” and emphasized that she “condemned and condemns” any manifestation of violence. “The absolutely legal situation with the film “Matilda” is being used by someone for purposes that have nothing to do with protecting our history and faith. The manifestation of extremism in this matter is part of a specific plan aimed at destabilizing society, dividing people, and discrediting Orthodox believers.” , she added.

Konstantin Dobrynin, in a conversation with RBC, called Poklonskaya’s statement about her role in detaining the suspects “the funniest news of today.”

The lawyer noted that the people’s chosen one “should just modestly remain silent,” since, first of all, in his opinion, for the detention of Kalinin, “we should thank our colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, who finally responded to our latest statements.” Dobrynin also noted the role of deputies Irina Rodnina and Oksana Pushkina, as well as Senator Andrei Klishas, ​​who actually made official requests and “forced the state machine to start working.”

The lawyer advised Poklonskaya to “think about her behavior” and “stop dividing society and causing confusion.”

Previously, lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin repeatedly contacted the Federal Security Service in connection with incoming threats from the Christian State - Holy Rus' movement, which systematically opposes the screening of Matilda. Thus, Alexander Kalinin talked about the existence of people who want to “break the legs” of the film’s director, “implant him on a stake,” and also oust Vladimir Medinsky, who defends the film, from his post as Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The head of the Orthodox fanatics himself emphasized that he did not threaten anyone, but only warned about the existence of “dissatisfied people.” Kalinin boasted of the fact that the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to initiate criminal cases 47 times because of letters that members of the organization sent to cinemas.

Teacher’s lawyer has already contacted the FSB with a request to check whether Matilda’s opponent, State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, supports extremists with the goal of changing the constitutional order. State Duma deputies Irina Rodnina and Oksana Pushkina September 13 sent to the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, requests to check for extremism opponents of the film “Matilda” from HG/SR and “Forty Forties”.

On September 4, Uchitel accused Poklonskaya of supporting “terrorist organizations” due to the arson of a cinema in Yekaterinburg, which, as some media reported, the attacker allegedly committed as a protest against the film “Matilda.” And on September 11, unknown persons set fire to several cars near Dobrynin’s Moscow office, leaving a note “Burn for Matilda.”

As a result of the threats received by cinemas, distributors refuse to show the film, in particular, this is what the organizers of the sixth Trans-Baikal Film Festival did. Cinemas in Kamchatka, Krasnoyarsk and Nizhny Novgorod decided to refuse the screening. "Matilda" was not brought to the film festival in Chita out of fear for local cinemas.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case against the leader of the organization “Christian State - Holy Rus'” Alexander Kalinin for putting pressure on cinemas due to the screening of the film “Matilda” by Alexei Uchitel. This was reported by official representative of the department Irina Volk.

“A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under Article 179 of the Criminal Code of Russia (coercion to complete a transaction or refusal to complete it),” Volk said.

She clarified that the case was initiated “on the fact of forcing the management of a commercial organization operating in the field of demonstrating films to refuse to demonstrate a feature film in a network of cinemas under the threat of violence against spectators, causing harm and damage to the owners of cinemas.”

The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also spoke about the detention of the leader of the Christian State - Holy Rus' movement, Alexander Kalinin. He was detained for the first time on September 20 and interrogated in the case of arson of cars near the office of Konstantin Dobrynin, the lawyer of director Alexei Uchitel. Then Kalinin was released on his own recognizance, since he himself did not directly participate in the arson. An Interfax source in law enforcement agencies explained that Kalinin was now detained due to newly discovered circumstances.

On September 21, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Alexander Kalinin’s brother Yuri.

“We satisfy the investigation’s request to choose a preventive measure against the accused Kalinin in the form of detention until November 11,” said Judge Diana Mishchenko.

During interrogation, Yuri Kalinin admitted his guilt, explaining that he participated in the arson because his feelings as a believer were “offended.” At the same time, he said that before the arson, “the cars were inspected so that no one was hurt or burned.”

“Initially, the feelings of the believer were offended. This is a criminal article that has been violated against me. I'm not the center of attention, the center of attention is this film. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be here,” Kalinin said.

On the same day, two more defendants in the arson case were arrested: Denis Mantaluts and Alexander Bayanov.

All detainees are members of the organization “Christian State - Holy Rus'”. Like Yuri Kalinin, they were charged under Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Deliberate damage or destruction of property.” According to an informed source, Mantaluts and Bayanov admitted their guilt.

“Bayanov confessed to two arson attacks. On August 31, in St. Petersburg, Yuri Kalinin, the brother of the group leader Alexander Kalinin, and Bayanov set fire to the office of the Rock studio directed by Uchitel,” the source said.

According to him, on September 6 in Yaroslavl, Kalinin and Bayanov also tried to set fire to the Neft cinema. Bayanov told law enforcement officials that the arson of the cinema was committed using a pre-prepared incendiary mixture, and glass bottles with it were set on fire and thrown into the windows and doors.

On September 12, due to numerous threats against cinemas from opponents of the film “Matilda” by Alexei Uchitel, the management of Russia’s largest combined cinema chain “Formula Kino” and “Cinema Park” refused to release the scandalous film.

The press center of the cinema chain noted that this decision was made in order to protect viewers.

“The decision was made in the interests of the safety of our viewers, in order to protect them from the risks that the screening of the film may entail,” Alexandra Artamonova, director of public relations for the United Cinema Park and Formula Kino cinema chain, told Gazeta.Ru.

By “risks,” the management of Formula Kino and Cinema Park apparently meant a series of attacks and arson committed by opponents of Matilda screenings on the eve of the film’s premiere. In particular, on the night of August 31, unknown persons threw a Molotov cocktail at the building of the Lendok studio, where the premises are rented by TPO Rock, the film company of Matilda director Alexei Uchitel.

On September 4, in Yekaterinburg, a man tried to ram the main entrance of the Cosmos cinema on an UAZ, and when he failed, he set the car on fire. During interrogation, the attacker admitted that he committed the arson as a protest against the screening of “Matilda.”

On September 11, on the day of the pre-premiere screening of “Matilda” in Moscow, unknown persons set fire to two cars near the office of Konstantin Dobrynin, the lawyer of director Alexei Uchitel. There were notes scattered at the scene with the words “Burn for Matilda.”

Konstantin Dobrynin. Kalinin was detained a day earlier, on September 19, along with two of his alleged accomplices. The operation took place simultaneously in Moscow and Lipetsk.

Alexander Kalinin faces up to five years in prison

A source in law enforcement agencies reported that Orthodox radicals are suspected of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Deliberate destruction or damage to property”). The maximum liability under this article is up to five years in prison.

Dobrynin's car was burned more than a week ago

On September 11, Moscow police began an investigation into the circumstances of the arson of two cars in the city center. The burned cars were parked in close proximity to the office of lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin, who represents the interests of director Alexei Uchitel.

Police arriving at the scene found a Honda and Mercedes damaged by fire. According to Lenta.ru's source, the burned Mercedes belonged to Konstantin Dobrynin. At the same time, the lawyer himself said that the burnt cars belonged to residents of nearby houses. He spoke about the arson on his Facebook page, attaching to the post photographs of burnt cars, around which leaflets with the phrase “Burn for Matilda” were scattered.

The leader of the KSSR blamed the wave of telephone terrorism on opponents of “Matilda”

September 13 Alexander Kalinin on his social network page "In contact with" posted a post calling the threatening calls, which resulted in the evacuation of schools, shopping centers and other institutions across the country, part of a “pan-Orthodox campaign” against the film “Matilda.”

“In connection with the wide publicity in the press of recent telephone threats, the KSSR considers it its duty to inform the public that on September 10, 2017, information (an anonymous letter) was received in the name of the organization from persons previously unknown to us (an anonymous letter) that these persons would carry out certain “information attacks on cinemas and infrastructure of the Russian Federation" as part of a "pan-Orthodox campaign" against the film "Matilda"," the post says.

The burning of a lawyer's car is not the first act of aggression on the part of king-worshippers

The film "Matilda" tells about the relationship between the future emperor and a ballerina. The film caused discontent among some radical believers who revere the last Russian Tsar as a saint. The deputy has repeatedly spoken out against the screening of the film.

The arson of Konstantin Dobrynin's car is not the only act of aggression in the campaign against Matilda. In particular, on September 4 in Yekaterinburg, a man drove a car into the Cosmos cinema and set it on fire. After his arrest, he expressed dissatisfaction with the intention to show the film “Matilda” there. It became known that earlier he spoke at a rally against the Teacher’s painting, calling it “porn.” However, the Christian State stated that it had nothing to do with this incident.

On August 31, unknown persons pelted the building of the St. Petersburg film studio “Lendok” with Molotov cocktails. The Rock film studio directed by Alexei Uchitel is located in the same building as Lendok.

Natalia Poklonskaya and KSSR went their separate ways

The organization “Christian State - Holy Rus'” announced itself in early 2017, when on behalf of its activists letters began to arrive in cinemas threatening that if the film “Matilda” was shown, “cinemas would start to burn.” However, these messages were later called not threats, but only fears that dissatisfied citizens might take radical measures.

At first, activists of the “Christian State” were counted among the supporters of Natalia Poklonskaya, but in February 2017, the deputy publicly dissociated herself from the organization, Kalinin’s associates in attempts to discredit and asked the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to check the KhGSR for extremism. On July 21, it became known that the Moscow prosecutor's office indicated signs of violation of the law in the actions of opponents of the film "Matilda" from among the supporters of the "Christian State".

In turn, Alexander Kalinin said in an interview at the beginning of 2017 that his organization has nothing to do with Poklonskaya and does not share her position. “She handles her prosecutorial line as it should. We have our own movement, she does not understand it, just as her line is not characteristic of us. We don’t support each other, we go on slightly different fronts,” said the head of the KhSSR.

In an interview with the media, Kalinin reported that the “Christian State” was created in 2010 with the aim of consolidating Orthodox brotherhood, mutual support and communication on spiritual issues. The emergence of the organization was allegedly supported by monasteries, temples and churches. “There was no task to fight any “Matildas” or schizophrenics,” noted the leader of the association, “but after the film appeared, we had to join forces in the fight against this evil.”

According to Kalinin, by the beginning of “matildo wrestling,” the organization consisted of “about 350 active people with families,” and by mid-September, “another four thousand people registered on the site.” At the time of preparation of the material, 293 people were registered in the “Christian State - Holy Rus'” group on the VKontakte social network.

“There is a culture that defiles everything.”

Matilda split the country. Opponents of the film are organizing large-scale demonstrations, threatening to burn down cinemas, and disrupting pre-shows. Supporters twirl their fingers at their temples, urge them to come to their senses, and advise law enforcement agencies to take control of the situation. It seems mass madness has reached its peak. Members of radical Orthodox organizations do not hide their intentions: “We warned that cinemas would burn.” The 33-year-old leader said that terrible things would happen if a believer took up a sword.

What connects the members of the “Christian State” and deputy Poklonskaya, who sponsors the brothers and sisters of the radical community, how they become leaders of such cells - in a frank interview with Orthodox radical Alexander Kalinin.

Alexander, let's talk about you. It is known that you live in a village in the Lipetsk region, but you carefully hide the name of the village.

There is no need to indicate the name. In fact, I live in different cities. Our organization has houses in Sochi, the Krasnodar Territory, Novorossiysk, and Siberia. I can live in one city for a month, then move to another. Sometimes I stay in the Lipetsk region for six months. Here our organization has five houses where my brothers and sisters live. That is, those who joined our organization.

- Are you married, do you have children?

I am married and have a child who will be educated at home. Among my brothers there are doctors of historical sciences, teachers who can teach our children disciplines that are important. In the Lipetsk region we have 27 children for all families. And our children should be head and shoulders above those who study in a regular school.

- Do you live in a community?

This cannot be called a community. Each family lives independently.

- Why then is everything in one place?

We are uniting throughout the country so that Orthodox people do not feel alone. Thanks to “Matilda”, 4.5 thousand people have already officially registered in our cell. We preach and travel to different cities of Russia. We communicate with monastics and parishioners.

- What money do you live on?

We preach.

- And they pay for it?

To enable us to act, work, and open offices in the regions, we accept donations.

- Successfully?

We have enough.

- And how much does it cost per month?

Well (sighs)... We have 25 branches throughout Russia. So that each of our workers devotes himself entirely to faith and serving the people, and does not think about where he can earn his bread, we must pay him a salary. We have a number of icon-painting workshops, we spend money on renting premises and on fuel. On average, it costs about 70 thousand rubles per month for each office.

- It turns out that you get about 2 million rubles a month from donations? Are your sponsors not poor people?

There are all kinds.

- Will you name the names?

For what? I also ask those who donate not to give their names. Maintain anonymity. Because if I know who transferred this or that amount, I will thank him. And if I say “thank you,” then I don’t have to expect gratitude from God.

The name of the Christian State organization headed by Alexander Kalinin is painfully reminiscent of the name of the Islamic State banned in Russia. Photo: SOCIAL NETWORKS

- Do your brothers and sisters who settled in the Lipetsk region also live on donations?

Each family lives according to its own capabilities - some have their own business, others have a cafe, others live by farming. Everyone earns a living by their labor. They don't need donations.

- Unlike them, do you live exclusively on public funds?

Yes. Because my whole life is devoted to missionary activity. A preacher and missionary is a person who travels a lot. You understand that any trip is expensive. So people help me: they donate for plane tickets, for train tickets. The people want me to be completely devoted to God’s work and not think about where I can now earn money for travel.

You are talking about donations, however, we found a page on the Internet where you write that you are engaged in trading stocks, bonds, and raw materials. You also indicate your working methods there: “short-term speculation, medium-term investments.” Tell us about your 7 years of experience in the market.

I actually have several businesses that are not closed yet. After all, I used to live like everyone else - I received a higher legal education, worked, and was involved in business. In Norilsk, where I am from, I had my own law office, in addition to it I opened a number of other enterprises and was involved in investment projects. But one day I sold everything and left. That's why everything you find on the Internet dates back to before 2012.

“I experienced clinical death”

- What made you start a new life?

I experienced clinical death. This happened in the hospital where I was undergoing surgery.

Alexander told a rather confusing story about this episode of his life in his video. Allegedly, in 2010, he and his family were on vacation at sea. Kalinin's wife got a henna tattoo. The woman didn’t like the drawing and asked the artist to correct it. She responded by demanding double payment. Kalinin refused to pay and left. And when he returned 20 minutes later with the money, the artist did not take it: “It’s too late. For this you will die within two days.” Two days later, Kalinin felt that his body no longer obeyed him. It was as if the devil had possessed him. He started destroying furniture. He broke the window, the glass “cut veins and arteries to the bone.” The man was taken to the hospital, where he experienced clinical death. When I came to my senses, I felt that I was still possessed by the devil. I turned to the priest who performed the ritual of exorcism. At some point, Kalinin saw Jesus Christ in front of him.

- And after that you decided to become a preacher?

Yes, after that I changed and began to preach.

- Your fans consider you a guru.

Not exactly a guru. I'm just a person who is 100 percent dedicated to God.

- Have you thought about becoming a priest?

There is a calling “missionary”, and there is a calling “clergyman”. I can even today be ordained a priest, because I know the services and sacraments. But this will limit me - then I will be tied to the parish.

- Your sermons are about not using foul language or raising a hand against a loved one...

It's all banal. Is it really a sermon to talk about not swearing? My most important sermon is how a person can realize that we are all going to die. Mortal memory must be revived in people. After all, when a person remembers his death, he immediately thinks about whom he disliked, whom he did bad to, whom he offended, and begins to adjust his life. I have experienced death and I know what awaits us there.

- And what awaits us there?

Great responsibility and response await us. What awaits us is what we are today. If a person sins, then he will be a sinner at most; if he has been envious and irritated all his life, then he will remain in that state after death, and this is called hell. Okay, I won't talk about this anymore. A very long sermon.

- You say you can’t be angry, but you yourself are angry with the director Alexei Uchitel?

Nobody is mad at him. He is an unhappy man. Our brothers think the same way. But we feel even more sorry for the people who may suffer because of it. Therefore, we are trying to do everything to avoid the spiritual and political explosion that is now brewing.

- Is it brewing?

This was to be expected. If you torture people even more, finish them off, something terrible could happen. Because if a believer takes up the sword, that’s all. Imagine, a Christian takes a sword and goes to kill those he loves. Because an Orthodox person loves his enemies, and if they attack him, he kills them not because he hates them, he simply has no choice. He will kill them and then spend his whole life praying for them. Any Orthodox Christian wants to sit at home, pray, contemplate the world, the beauty of the earth that God created. But we can't. Because there is a culture around us that defiles everything we go to.

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“There is no point in talking to Poklonskaya. We are on different sides of the same barricade"

- Do you know Natalia Poklonskaya?

Do not know.

- Would you like to meet?

What is the point? What will we talk about? Today we have such different sides of the same barricade that it has come to confrontation. I think we would have compromised her if we had known her. After all, today we are considered a terrorist organization.

- I thought, on the contrary, you should have united against the backdrop of the struggle for Nicholas II.

We do our thing, she does hers. She is on her level, we are on ours. That's all.

You are accused of extremism, because it was your organization that sent threatening letters to cinemas. It seems that even the investigative authorities checked you?

I have 48 examinations that were carried out in our regard by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of different regions. Nothing was found. There is no corpus delicti in our letters.

- But did your people send threatening letters?

Sent. But these letters were checked, and no crime was found in their contents. We added a signature twist to the text of the letter and used the word “if”. I'm not a fool either. I used to run a legal consultancy; among my friends there are many lawyers who write competent letters. The letters contained only a warning, there was no talk of any threats. We thought we would alert people to the fact that they might have problems.

In Voronezh, Lipetsk and Ryazan, the Investigative Committee and the FSB know me well. There is no point for them to meet with me, to conduct a search in my house, because everyone knows where I am, from morning to evening all my telephone conversations are recorded. They realized that I wouldn’t help them find the people they were looking for; I didn’t know everyone. Now many of the guys who are involved with us are being checked very strictly. They are studying our correspondence from 3-4 months ago. Our entire participation in protesting the film consisted only of writing letters to cinemas.

- By the way, Poklonskaya advocated checking your community.

She was obliged to submit various applications as a deputy so as not to look incorrect. But all this arson is not her method of struggle. And not mine.

“A spiritual-civil war is brewing”

Can you name the names of people to law enforcement agencies who are ready to commit a crime to defend the honor of the late king?

I know a lot of people who could potentially commit a crime. But I constantly urge everyone: don’t declare anything, don’t talk to me, don’t send letters. Because I don't want to know or hear it.

- So you wash your hands of it and don’t want to be involved in this story?

If someone wants to do something, let them do anything. My task is to warn.

- You won’t dissuade anyone?

How can I dissuade a person from deciding to defend someone's honor? I want to dissuade those who provoke.

- That is, Teachers and Co.?

Yes, those because of whom these guys could suffer. A spiritual-civil war is brewing.

“There are three hundred such Mironov Kravchenkos in our organization.”

You present your organization as peaceful and quiet. But the head of the “Christian State” in Moscow is the nationalist Miron Kravchenko, who returned from Ukraine?

There are three hundred such Mironov Kravchenkos in our organization. I mean people who were members of the Right Sector (an organization banned in Russia) or fought on the side of the LPR, DPR, who call themselves monarchists and nationalists. They are not bad people, they are looking for the truth, they are not indifferent to Russia. If a person constantly makes mistakes, gets up from his knees and looks for the truth again, there is nothing wrong with that. Recently, the media published a photograph of Miron Kravchenko against the background of the flag of a Ukrainian nationalist right-wing radical organization banned in the Russian Federation. I haven't seen these cards before. But I can say that there is nothing wrong with this. Recently they also tried to take a photo of me in a store with some strange people in the background. I won’t be surprised that tomorrow this card will appear somewhere in the media and I will be accused of anything.

- The fact that Mironov is a nationalist is no secret.

We, believers, should not believe what we had in the past. We must believe in what is now. So what difference does it make what he did before? In the past, we could all make a lot of mistakes.

-Have you made mistakes?

Everyone made a lot of mistakes. Moreover, today's life is imbued with a race to see who can steal the most. Someone steals from the state, someone else from a neighbor - the whole country steals. And I stole. I remember that time and repent, I mourn that part of my life.

-Have you watched “Matilda”?

I saw this film. My friends re-filmed it for me in Vladivostok cinemas from two phones. So that no one accuses me of not being able to see anything from the phones because the quality is poor, I will say that they were filming on expensive phones with powerful cameras. I can even cut it up and throw it to anyone, I just don’t want to get dirty with this dirt. I watched on rewind. I've had enough.

- Didn’t you like the film at all or are there any good moments?

There are many subtle, nasty, vile moments that only a believer can understand. An ordinary person will not notice or understand these barbs. And a believer is greatly offended.

- Is this the only film that offended you?

There are many such films. This had to stop at some point. We decided to start with this nasty film.

- What films do you watch?

The last one I watched was “Viking” - about Prince Vladimir. A very good movie. Only pagans can speak badly of him. It tells how Prince Vladimir came to God. Before coming to God, he raped a girl. But what difference does it make how he came to God? It’s just that before that he was a Satanist, a barbarian, that’s exactly how they live. The most important thing is how he accepted faith. He shed tears from his repentance. I especially like the moment in the film when the prince ran to baptize all the people of his land. This is an extraordinary moment. Sometimes I rewind the movie to the end, watch it myself and cry.

If we assume that tomorrow the actor who played Nikolai will “see the light”, repent and come running to you, would you accept him into your organization?

Of course he would have been accepted. Jesus came not for the righteous, but for sinners. We would not just accept him into the community, we would love him, be friends with him and give our lives for him. The fact is that I’m already giving my life for him today, because I’m risking everything I have, just so that he comes to his senses.

- As I understand it, your supporters are ready to go to prison if only “Matilda” would be banned. Isn't it stupid?

What's wrong with prison? Firstly, people are tired of the money race. And prison frees a person from loans, from all payments. Secondly, in our case, a person will go to jail for arson, damage to property, the article for such cases is scanty - a maximum of a year in prison or probation. During this year, a person’s conscience will fall into place, order will appear in his soul, he has done what he could do.

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"We will win"

- Your organization is called a radical sect.

We are the same sect as the Russian Orthodox Church. We go to our churches, serve in the Russian Orthodox Church, we visit and communicate with the rulers of the Russian Orthodox Church.

- Do they accept you?

We have been in the Russian Orthodox Church for a long time, but who will speak for us now? We don’t even voice the names of those people with whom we communicate closely. You will find out who we are talking about when they stop talking about us as terrorists and everyone understands that we are good, believers, Orthodox people who are tired of lawlessness.

- Are you hinting that high officials support you?

There are officials and “big epaulets”. I am not boasting about this, but I want to show that there are many Orthodox people in our country. In some regions, the government even allocated plots of land for us to train our brothers and sisters.

- What kind of training?

We are talking about sports camps. We were given the territories of former pioneer camps, where we also meet. It is clear that while this hype is going on, it has become difficult to date. But those who were with us initially, everyone remained.

-Who will win this fight?

We will win. There have already been programs on television on this topic, many presenters take Poklonskaya’s side. Of course, no one supports us, because we were made radicals. Anyway. As I understand it, Andrei Malakhov is on Poklonskaya’s side. Not explicitly, but by 75 percent. There was also a survey that revealed that 67 percent of the population are for Poklonskaya and 33 percent are for Teacher. (Here Kalinin refers to an open poll posted on the website of one of the TV channels, which, of course, is not a representative opinion poll. According to a poll by the Public Opinion Foundation, 60% of those who are familiar with the situation around Matilda approve of the decision The Ministry of Culture will allow the film to be distributed. 13% of respondents have the opposite opinion. 27% of respondents were undecided. - MK).

This suggests that now the situation with Matilda will fade. And it will be extinguished by government anger.