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Alexei Pavlov, Assistant Secretary of the Security Council, has been removed from his post. According to RBC, such a decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The reasons for the dismissal were not named.
It is noted that Lieutenant-General Pavlov worked in the FSB before coming to this position in 2009. Last year, he attracted attention with a statement about the need to “desatanize” Ukraine. According to Pavlov’s statement, since the 1990s, the number of followers of religious sects has increased in the country, and after the change of power in 2014, the country’s leadership set out to “reformat the minds of Ukrainian citizens” and “prohibit the real values u200bu200bthat carry the Orthodox faith, Islam and Judaism.”
Pavlov believes that as a result, Ukraine was turned into a “totalitarian hypersect”, and “those in power in Kyiv were the first to turn into militant fanatics, whose views are directly opposite to those of normal people.”
The official said that the former and. about. President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov is a neo-Pentecostal, former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is a Hubbardist and Scientologist (some Scientology materials in the Russian Federation are included in the list of extremist). He called businessmen Igor Kolomoisky and Viktor Pinchuk Lubavitcher Hasidim.
Pavlov’s article aroused the indignation of the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berl Lazar. He stated that the Lubavitcher Hasidim and the religious movement “Chabad” are a legitimate school of Judaism, Lazar himself belongs to this direction, as well as “90% of the rabbis working in the Jewish communities of Russia.”
Lazar reported that Pavlov’s theses offended “millions of believing Jews, including the great majority of the Jews of Russia.” According to him, such statements “could be called vulgar anti-Semitic nonsense.”
After the publication of an article with Pavlov’s statements, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev apologized. He stated that Pavlov’s words about Lubavitcher Hasidim in the material about religion in Ukraine were erroneous.
“I apologize to the readers of the publication and would like to note that this interpretation reflects the personal point of view of A.A. Pavlov and is by no means the official position of the Security Council of the Russian Federation,” Patrushev said. He added that “corresponding work has been done” with the author of the article.
Source: Rosbalt
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