The importance of the volunteer movement in the country is growing, the number of volunteers in the regions is growing, new organizations and guidelines are emerging, the participants of the Specialist Institute for Social Research (EISI) roundtable dropped the rating “Volunteering in Russia” is a manifestation of solidarity between society and the state. The event took place on December 8 at the press center of the Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency.
According to the political scientist Alexander Asafov, the moderator of the EISI roundtable, the idea that society and the state live with a social contract that cannot be built on ethical principles has been imposed on those living in our country since the 60s. According to this understanding, people act in their own interests.
“They tried to present this concept of contracting to us as unique and unique, but it cannot be applied to us, we live by other values and principles. Society and the state not only intersect, they are also related elements, Asafov said.
He noted that volunteering shows the consolidation of our society.
According to Vladimir Shapovalov, deputy director of the Institute of History and Policy of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, Candidate of Historical Sciences, the concept of life not for himself and his selfish desires, but for someone else has always been characteristic of Russian society.
“Both society and state and family and person and country are one whole, something interconnected and historically constituted as a community of communities. The expert said that our volunteering has deep traditions that permeate our entire history.
He remembered that the Battle of Kulikovo started with the battle of Peresvet and was actually a volunteer. During the Minin and Pozharsky militia, the people raised money for the restoration of the state. In 1941 there were 400,000 volunteers in Moscow alone.
Victor Poturemsky, director of political analysis at the Social Marketing Institute (INSOMAR), says there is now a time to reflect on volunteering and volunteering as important elements of the political system.
“There is no distinction in our society that distinguishes Western society, where a person acquires new connections and quickly forgets old ones, even if he has risen to a slightly new social level. “We remain as before,” concluded the political scientist Alexander Rudakov.
Source: Gazeta
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