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Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin advises Orthodox countries not to adopt Western democracy models

Any negotiations with the EU should now begin "with a question as to how the EU is ready to change to be able to become a common house not only for the western, but also for the eastern socio-political tradition on a parity basis, not with docile hearing of someone's instructions," he said. "The western democracy model is now used by a minority of the population of our planet, and it should eventually be realized as an indication that this model is not the only model and that insisting on its universality, especially that all peoples and all legal and political systems should adjust to it is, to put it mildly, unfair and unjust," Father Vsevolod said

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