The battle that united almost all Russian princes’ armed forces in struggle for freedom set an example of spirit triumphing over human passion. Fratricidal strife and fear of the enemy’s power were defeated by love of brothers and valour with hope for God’s help.

The battle, which resulted essentially in the birth of the nation, sealed the special role played in the history of the country by Orthodoxy as the spiritual basis of the great power to be. The Kulikovo battle, which took place on the feast day of the Nativity of the Mother of God, is closely bound up with the names of Dmitry Donskoy and Sergius of Radonezh, ‘Abbot of the Russian Land’, whose prayers accompanied this key battle in the history of the Motherland. In face of the memory of dozens of thousands of warriors who fought under the command of the most Orthodox prince and were killed in action, any attempt to review this role and to deprive Russia of her spiritual pivot appears especially unconvincing.

A new view of the Kulikovo battle, long and ardently proposed by some public organizations, which see an infringement of someone’s rights in the honouring of Dmitry Donskoy’s troops, echoes the attempts of certain European politicians to equalize in rights the war veterans of the Soviet Army with those who fought on the side of Germany. Isolating the commonplace that both Russians and Tartars fought on the opposite sides in the Kulikovo field, it is worthwhile not to forget that for Donskoy’s warriors, unlike the Mamai’s ones, it was a war of liberation.

Hopefully, during the celebrations all the political speculations will give way to a new reflection on the feats performed by our ancestors who realized their kinship in the Kulikovo field - kinship reinforced by the unity of faith, and realized that power lies not in fratricidal strife but in unity, especially if this unity is strengthened by a lofty goal. Interfax.ru

Moscow, 5th October, "Interfax"

The 3rd session of the World Public Forum on Dialogue of Civilizations, initiated by the Centre of Russian National Glory (CRNG) and the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called (AFF), has opened on the Greek island of Rhodes.

The third session of the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” has opened on the Greek island of Rhodes. The initiative of the Forum belongs to the Center of National Glory (CNG) and Foundation of St Andrew the First-Called (AFF). The correspondent of “Rosbalt” reports that about two hundred representatives of expert communities from 40 countries of the world took part in the solemn ceremony in the evening of October 5th.

Who are you with, original civilizations – Chinese, Arab, Persian, Slavic and many others? With globalizers, who don’t have their own faces and are alike? Or with integrators who support the fair world community, where the rights and interests of everyone will be respected?

In some sense, all the great Russian victories gained later over the Poles, Napoleon, Hitler, were a continuation of the victory on the Kulikovo field, which rallied the Russian people together for the first time.

United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi arrived here on Monday on a four-day visit as Russian President Vladimir Putin's personal guest.

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