Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Head of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate responsible for the Church’s relations with society and the media, said: “Lente.ru”That Halloween does not carry any value for the inhabitants of Russia.
“It seems to me that we have our own holidays, which are not fully explained, which may become more widespread than this blackened masquerade and cause incomprehensible excitement,” the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church added.
He added that neither schools nor other government institutions should accommodate “such demonstrations.”
“This holiday is inappropriate in any public structure related to the education of children at public expense,” Kipshidze said.
Vitaly Milonov, formerly Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children offered Declare Halloween the holiday of perverts and degenerates.
Previously at Izhevsk school reported About plans to celebrate Pumpkin Springs instead of Halloween.