The text refers to the pan russian public council, held on 10-11 November 2014 which was focused on the idea of a threefold unity: unity of History, of people, of Russia. A comprehensive and honest account of how the council was carried out was published in the Ogoniok weekly of 17 November 2014. The author makes a few comments on this account.

Keywords: pan russian popular council, unity, nation, Orthodoxy, politics

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