By Vestnik Kavkaza
The 5th International Festival of family dynasties "Faith. Hope. Love" which will be held from November 9-11 in Moscow. The mission of the organizers of the festival, supported by all spiritual faiths, is the revival and strengthening of family values and ties between generations. The festival aims to show the possibilities of a young family and a great family dynasty in creative works, economy, sports, to give them inspiration and impetus to co-creation of family life.
According to Irina Bogacheva, president of the foundation "Renaissance and Hope", “today, this festival brings together 63 regions of the country plus five countries of the "far abroad" as they say and the countries of our community - Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus and from the "far abroad" - Greece, Italy, Spain... The most important thing in this life is family. The way we treat each other and how we spend our free time in the family and our family life in general, is the foundation of the feeling of understanding. We teach our families to love each other at the level of heart and soul”.
Tatiana Moskalkova, chairman of the Committee on Legislation and Regulations of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, believes that “It is the first time we have tried establishing a very deep integration, which is impossible without a dense intellectual space and without the actions that you undertake, binding families of different countries of the CIS. It is very important not to construct any walls nowadays. I, for example, do not really welcome the strengthening of the customs and border regime with Ukraine, because they are so close to us. Your festival, your program plays a huge role as a cross-national binder in the post-Soviet space”.
Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on family matters, protection of motherhood and childhood, said: “No matter what a person is going to become - an astronaut, an academician - if he has troubles in his family, he is an unhappy man and the festival "Faith. Hope. Love" is the manifestation of true happiness, when someone can come to see it, see happy families who are engaged in the best way of self-realization, give all their heart, mind and all their talents to children. The happiness of a people depends on happy families, and it is in our hands. This is the blessing of God... In our country, in the 1990s there was even a ministry dealing with family issues which lasted for a year. In general, this is an issue of the highest importance, the highest importance. When there is a family there is a nation, when there is a nation there is a state. If there will be no family - there will be no nation and no state. If the institution of family comes to an end, the state will come to an end as well, and this land will be populated by other peoples who have maintained the family. That is, the family is the foundation of existence and the foundation of earthly happiness”.
Speaking about the participants of the festival, Ekaterina Strizhenova, chairman of the jury, TV presenter, said: “These are happy people who arrive in large clans, remember that they have not only their grandfather and grandmother, but also an aunt with her family and an uncle with his family as well as extended family. They gather and come and you realize what a powerful force a family is. I think today it is one of the main pillars, together with faith, without which it is impossible to develop into a person”.
