right to morally evaluate any pieces of art whether old or new." "Today we need to decisively revise our attitude to public morality, including the problem of lechery. Without such revision Russian society will stop existing in hundred years. For me it's quiet evident," the interviewee of the agency stressed. In this context, he further said, "an attempt to justify pedophilia from which the discussion started is monstrous and cynical and it shouldn't be left without public evaluation". The priest said he refers to the textbook written by a lecturer of the North State Medical University (Arkhangelsk) Gennady Deryagin, where, according to him, the author tries "to impose on the society a thought that relations between adult men and boys are acceptable and normal and boys are interested in such contacts." Russian church wants novels banned Associated Press / September 29, 2011 MOSCOW - A senior Russian Orthodox official said yesterday that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez justify pedophilia and argued they should be banned in the high schools. nation’s Father Vsevolod demand that government investigate and limit the Chaplin’s Russia’s use of the books was the latest effort to impose religious norms in a nation that church’s once rejected religion. Chaplin, who heads the Moscow public relations department, discussed Patriarchate’s and Garcia Hundred Years of on Echo of Nabokov’s “Lolita’’ Marquez’s “One Solitude’’ Moscow radio, accusing both of “justifying pedophilia.’’ The priest later elaborated in comments on Interfax, saying the should not authors’ works be included in high school curriculums because they that “romanticize perverted passions make people unhappy.’’ Mikhail Shvydkoi, a Kremlin envoy for international cultural cooperation, disagreed, saying such action by authorities would badly hurt image. Russia’s Nabokov, who left his native Russia shortly after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, published in English in 1955. The book, which describes a relationship of a “Lolita’’ middle-aged intellectual with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, was briefly banned in several European countries, Argentina, and South Africa - as well as several library systems and public schools in the United States
right to morally evaluate any pieces of art whether old or new." "Today we need to decisively revise our attitude to public morality, including the problem of lechery. Without such revision Russian society will stop existing in hundred years. For me it's quiet evident," the interviewee of the agency stressed. In this context, he further said, "an attempt to justify pedophilia from which the discussion started is monstrous and cynical and it shouldn't be left without public evaluation". The priest said he refers to the textbook written by a lecturer of the North State Medical University (Arkhangelsk) Gennady Deryagin, where, according to him, the author tries "to impose on the society a thought that relations between adult men and boys are acceptable and normal and boys are interested in such contacts." Russian church wants novels banned Associated Press / September 29, 2011 MOSCOW - A senior Russian Orthodox official said yesterday that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez justify pedophilia and argued they should be banned in the nation’s high schools. Father Vsevolod Chaplin’s demand that Russia’s government investigate and limit the use of the books was the church’s latest effort to impose religious norms in a nation that once rejected religion. Chaplin, who heads the Moscow Patriarchate’s public relations department, discussed Nabokov’s “Lolita’’ and Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude’’ on Echo of Moscow radio, accusing both of “justifying pedophilia.’’ The priest later elaborated in comments on Interfax, saying the authors’ works should not be included in high school curriculums because they “romanticize perverted passions that make people unhappy.’’ Mikhail Shvydkoi, a Kremlin envoy for international cultural cooperation, disagreed, saying such action by authorities would badly hurt Russia’s image. Nabokov, who left his native Russia shortly after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, published “Lolita’’ in English in 1955. The book, which describes a relationship of a middle-aged intellectual with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, was briefly banned in several European countries, Argentina, and South Africa - as well as several library systems and public schools in the United States
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