As Dugin said, they are gathered to sell braces to each other. The empire cannot be united if there is no common idea, which should be kind of encroached on by a common enemy. “Traditional values”, binding together Buryat and Karelian, Ingush and Evenk, Tatar, Chaldon, Koryak, Moksha and hundreds of other nations, are chosen as such a common idea. And the Taliban just came to look for funding, in addition to the Chinese one.

The Church, in the broad sense of the word, should not be the ultimate authority in all matters without exception. A church hierarch cannot be a universal specialist in all vectors of life of modern society. Teaching morality to members of society is certainly useful, but giving guidance in specific directions is a road to impasse.

Let’s look at some examples.