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Russia’s lower-house State Duma hosted a roundtable late Tuesday dedicated to combating “Satanism” and other ideological beliefs that authorities claim threaten Russian statehood.

Lawmakers at the meeting identified Satanism as a “misanthropic ideology based on the justification of evil,” saying that its goal was to destroy Russia’s religious denominations as part of Western hybrid warfare. They compared it with Nazism and LGBTQ+, according to the newspaper Vedomosti.
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Bishop Pitirim from the Skopinsky diocese of the Ryazan region claimed the number of “magicians, psychics, tarot card readers, numerologists and witches” tripled in the past year and now totals 800,000 people. That compares with 40,000 Russian Orthodox priests, he claimed.

Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill has recommended drawing on past experience and banning the so-called “internationalist satanist movement,” said senior church official Fyodor Lukyanov.

Russia’s lower-house State Duma hosted a roundtable late Tuesday dedicated to combating “Satanism” and other ideological beliefs that authorities claim threaten Russian statehood.

Lawmakers at the meeting identified Satanism as a “misanthropic ideology based on the justification of evil,” saying that its goal was to destroy Russia’s religious denominations as part of Western hybrid warfare. They compared it with Nazism and LGBTQ+, according to the newspaper Vedomosti.
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Bishop Pitirim from the Skopinsky diocese of the Ryazan region claimed the number of “magicians, psychics, tarot card readers, numerologists and witches” tripled in the past year and now totals 800,000 people. That compares with 40,000 Russian Orthodox priests, he claimed.

Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill has recommended drawing on past experience and banning the so-called “internationalist satanist movement,” said senior church official Fyodor Lukyanov.