Russian Christian Activists Start Nationwide Petition Drive Demanding Resignation of Government Over Covid Tyranny

Russian Faith ^ | 12/3/21

[marshmallow]

The Forty Times Forty social movement is the best known and oldest Christian conservative social movement in Russia, with 100s of 1000s of followers and 10s of 1000s of activists across the country. Their leader, Andrei Kormukhin, is a well-known national figure, a frequent guest on TV talk shows and very active on social media, where he and his group have large followings.

Kormukhin, father of 9 children, devoutly and very publicly Orthodox, and relentless advocate of large families, has emerged as one of the most influential and articulate voices in the vigorous public backlash against recent radical government plans to implement QR code access to most areas of Russian public life, and vaccine mandates. The best social media to follow him on are his personal and group Telegram channels (content in Russian). As in the West, Telegram has emerged in Russia as the premiere platform for uncensored political discussion. (We also love Gab!, but it hasn't caught on yet in Russia.)

There is a growing disconnect between the current government, which seems to take its instructions from Klaus Schwab, and the majority of the Russian public, which is famously, socially and politically conservative. The dissonance is even more pronounced in the Russian Orthodox Church, with its leadership, in the persons of the two metropolitans (senior church officials) who are considered to be the main candidates to be the next Patriarch, Tikhon (author of the well-known best-seller Everyday Saints), and Hilarion, "Foreign Minister", of the Russian Church. Both have been pleading with the faithful to accept the vaccines, and both have publicly endorsed the government's recent initiatives. Meanwhile, the broader church, the faithful and a majority of the priesthood and monks are dead set against them, even more so than the general public. Some conservative elements of the Orthodox........

[Renfrew]

They are calling for Putin to resign? That’s not good for your health if you’re in Russia.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

My wife, son, and I live in Russia and we’re supposed to go back after Christmas (we’re currently visiting in the states), but this whole QR thing is putting a HUGE damper on our plans. I am just a visa holder so I can’t get a QR code. In the city where we live they have really clamped down on it and the only place you can go is the grocery store. Kind of makes it tough to live there and it’s looking more and more every day like we might be stuck here in the states for an extended stay.

Praying for a revolution of sorts there in Russia.