The new version of the Constitution should include a mention that the current Russian Federation is not only the successor of the USSR, but also of the Russian Empire.
This was stated at a meeting in Moscow by the head of the Double-Headed Eagle society, Konstantin Malofeev, a businessman who was called in the media one of the main sponsors of the Russian Spring.
The speaker explained that today's Basic Law does not take into account the country's thousand-year history, and Russia is supposedly the heir only of the Soviet Union.
“Our future is only possible if we learn to respect our history. Respect the history of the Soviet Union, of course, with the Great Victory. So is the history of the Russian Empire with dozens of great victories that happened over a thousand years. If we are talking about historical memory, we should not limit ourselves only to May 9, 1945, even if it is a sacred date for us. But we also have other sacred dates. If there had been no victory in the war of 1812-14, if there had been no victories on the Kulikovo Field, who would have lived on this land? All these victories are our historical heritage and asset,” Malofeev said, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The “Double-Headed Eagle” also stated that amendments to the Constitution should become a tool for enshrining the Russian people in the Basic Law of the country. This also applies to the mention of God proposed by Patriarch Kirill.