Mr. Leonid
Slutsky, head of the Russian Legislative Assembly International Committee and
leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, referred to Britain's punitive
sanctions against Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on its sanctions
list a new height of absurdity for Western cancel culture.
"The
Western ‘cancel culture' has now reached new height of absurdity. The British
authorities have put Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on a sanctions
list. The reason - participation "in actions that destabilize
Ukraine," - Mr. Slutsky noted.
He suggested
that British politicians looked in the mirror and "behold the real destabilizers
- those who for years have pitted brotherly Slavic peoples for their
geopolitical benefit, brought a split among Ukrainian believers."
"Is
the Orthodox faith destabilizing Ukraine? What's stabilizing it? Western arms
shipments, neo-Nazism and gangs of sexual perverts? Persecution of the Church has
never led to anything good," he also noted.