What the Party of People's Freedom Wants

All peoples of Russia, not only Russians but also Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Jews, Kyrgyz, and others, must have equal rights in the organization of the Russian state and the protection of their interests (equal political and civil rights). But this is not enough. Each people that has its own language, its own books, its own morals and customs (its own culture), wishes to preserve and develop all these peculiarities of its own. The Party of People’s Freedom considers it just to grant every people the right to freely use their own language in public life and local government institutions, the right to have schools for teaching their children in their native language, and so on (to grant every people the right of cultural self-determination). At the same time, the Russian language must remain the general state language. In the supreme state institutions of Russia (in central institutions), as well as in the army and navy, the Russian language must be used.

Freedom of faith.

Enemies of a free Russia, wishing to sow discord and return to the old order, invent stories as if churches will now be torn down and it will be impossible to freely pray to God. In reality, it is just the opposite. Violence in matters of faith often occurred under the old authority. The tsarist government frequently forced priests to serve not God, but the earthly tsar and his interests. In the same way, the tsarist government restricted the Old Believers a group that separated from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century and persons of other faiths. It often arrested and persecuted in every possible way righteous people among the laity and clergy who taught the people how one ought to truly serve God, and not mammon a biblical term for material wealth or greed. Now this must not happen. The Party of People’s Freedom believes that the state authority has no right to coerce people's consciences or interfere in how they believe in God.