Russian Modern Freemasons. Freemasons in the Russian government - the masks are not removed

Almost 200 years ago, on August 13, 1822, Emperor Alexander I issued a decree prohibiting officials from participating in Masonic lodges or other secret organizations. “To take a special subscription from those belonging to them that they will no longer belong to them; if someone does not wish to give such an obligation, he should not remain in the service, ”the decree said. This historical decree of the Russian emperor could not prevent the uprising of the Decembrists on December 14 (26), 1825, whose leadership was in the Masonic lodges, but after this uprising, the Freemasons (freemasons, as they were dubbed by the people. - V.B.) gained special significance their close ties with foreign "brothers" - Russophobes, began to be perceived as enemies of Russia and Orthodoxy. The Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 only confirmed this assessment.

Alas, the lessons of history are thoughtlessly forgotten. In our time, Freemasons operate almost openly at all levels of the Russian state, including the presidential administration, where, oddly enough, Freemasonry is treated very tolerantly. This is largely due to the fact that even before the collapse of the USSR, liberal Masonic lodges (“Great East”, etc.) and the Zionist Masonic Order “B'nai B'rith” began to actively infiltrate Russia and established contacts at the highest level, which Gorbachev, who actively flirted with Freemasonry, and his treacherous cabal was only welcomed.

Vladimir Putin in his book "From the First Person" admiringly recalls the first conversation with one of the patriarchs of world Freemasonry Henry Kissinger in the early 1990s. Then Putin worked in St. Petersburg in the team of the mayor of the city Anatoly Sobchak as the head of the committee on foreign relations. He sent him to the airport to meet the overseas guest, who flew in with his heads to see and evaluate Sobchak as one of the candidates for the future leaders of Russia. But Sobchak did not realize what value he ignored.

Henry Kissinger (born in 1923) is one of the oldest leaders of the Zionist Masonic order of the sons of the Old Testament "B'nai B'rith". - V.B.). This order has more than half a million people in its ranks. He is also a member of the leadership of para-Masonic organizations such as the Bilderberg Club, the US Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission (TCC). It is these three structures in modern history that play the role of a shadow "world government". The influence of Freemasonry in these structures is very great. It is known that the TSC includes (or included) in one way or another connected with the Masonic lodges: George W. Bush - Sr.; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Allen Dulles, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Robert McNamara, Olof Palme, David and Nelson Rockefellers, Edmund de Rothschild (Baron), Henry Ford, Willy Brandt, Helmut Kohl, Hans Merkel, Helmut Schmidt, Axel Springer, Franz Yosef Strauss, Ludwig Erhard and others.

Henry Kissinger was US National Security Advisor from 1969-1975 and US Secretary of State from 1973-1977. He is also a member of the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, with whom his entire career and his work in world government are connected.

Putin figured him out right away, and they had a heart-to-heart talk as an intelligence officer (Kissinger served in the US Counterintelligence Corps during the war. - V.B.) with an intelligence officer (Putin - in the foreign intelligence of the KGB of the USSR. - V.B.). Well, as a former spy and a high degree Freemason, Kissinger knew that Masons in the West traditionally actively interact with special services (with the CIA, MI6, BND and Mossad), which he himself never shied away from.

In total, Putin and Kissinger saw each other about 20 times after that meeting in St. Petersburg. And regardless of the post he occupies - from an official of the St. Petersburg mayor's office to the president of Russia - Putin willingly hosted "old Henry." One must think that such a readiness of the leader of a great power after all to communicate with him is explained not only by his personal sympathy for him, but also by state considerations.

Kissinger - was one of the first hundred most influential people on the planet as one of the most trusted emissaries of the world government and world freemasonry, which, in general, is almost the same thing. He is not the architect of the new world order, whose authorship belongs to David Rockefeller, Lionel Rothschild and other bosses of the world behind the scenes. He is his longtime chief foreman. And at this global "construction site" he, like the entire world army of "freemasons", including his own lodge "B'nai B'rith", worked tirelessly all his life.

The messages from the world behind the scenes and the White House to the Russian president, which "old Henry" brought to Moscow, were different - from a request to release Mikhail Khodorkovsky from prison (shortly after Kissinger's unexpected visit, on December 20, 2013, Putin signed a decree pardoning the stealing oligarch, freeing him from serving a sentence) to “black marks” (i.e. threats of sanctions and other measures, as after the reunification of Crimea with Russia). But when the threats did not work, he brought a whole suitcase of "peace proposals", which then, after Kissinger's shuttle trips to Moscow and back to Washington with a stop on the way to China, became the subject of interstate negotiations, including at the highest level. It is clear that the details of his meetings in the Kremlin did not get into the press.

The “shuttle diplomacy” that Kissinger has been practicing for many years has turned out to be far from innocent. The technology he uses to indirectly control the life of a society or a community of countries in the international arena is built on the principle of "Divide and Conquer!". She was involved in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now Mr. Kissinger is trying it on for Russia. Significant in this regard is the recognition of this supermason himself, dated January 16, 2012: “The United States is minimizing China and Russia ... We allowed China to increase its military power, gave Russia time to recover from Sovietization, gave them a false sense of superiority, but all this together will lead them to death faster. We, as an excellent shooter, do not need to choose a weapon, like beginners, and when they try to rock, we will make a “bang-bang” (See for more details: Shevchenko V., Sokolova R., Spiridonova V. Modern problems of the Russian state. Philosophical essays - V.B.).

In his well-known book Diplomacy, Kissinger spoke even more frankly: “I would prefer chaos and civil war in Russia to the tendency to reunite it into a single, strong, centralized state” (Quoted from: Kissinger G. Diplomacy. M., 1997. - V .B.).
So, when "old Henry" swore his "love for Russia", it had to be divided by ten. Unfortunately, this is not taken into account by Russian liberals who do not get tired of praising Kissinger for his “realism” and “wisdom”, as do, for example, Putin's press secretary Peskov, Senator Pushkov and other Westerners. Kissinger was a sworn enemy of Russia, and this must be clearly understood by those who are at the helm of the Russian state. And, if he was so willing, despite his age and numerous illnesses, to rush to meetings in the Kremlin, it was only because he realized, as an experienced diplomat, that in the modern world, without the participation of Russia, the problems that the world community is facing cannot be solved. . One can only congratulate him that Putin has nevertheless achieved such recognition during his presidency. And even more so, this revived status of Russia as a great power requires vigilance in relation to the Masonic "architects" and "foremen", because the building of the world is built for years, and the war destroys it in an instant.

Kissinger served only one master - the world behind the scenes, and he himself was and remains, as a Freemason and Zionist, its faithful functionary. In this ministry, for him, a Jew professing Judaism, there is no place for sympathy for either Russians or even his blood brothers, if it comes to the global interests of the architects of the New World Order.
Kissinger's 11 relatives died in the Nazi death camps. But when, at a meeting with Nixon on March 1, 1973, the then Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, asked to increase American pressure on Soviet officials, thus forcing them to give the green light to Jewish emigration, Nixon turned to Kissinger for advice. And he told him the following: “The emigration of Soviet Jews is not on the list of priorities for American foreign policy. And even if they are sent to the gas chambers, this will not become an American problem (italics mine. - V.B.), except perhaps a humanitarian one ”(Nagourney Adam. “In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks.” The New York Times December 10, 2010. - V.B.). But he could have put it all in a different way. But he did not consider it necessary. Such transcendent cynicism and such cruelty are characteristic of all those who strive for world domination and are preparing plans to reduce the population of the Earth (and not all Jews will be spared here) to 1-2 billion people in order for the world elite to live comfortably.

Reform Masons

Connections with Freemasonry were noted in Russia and at the government level. In special studies published by the EIR magazine in the late 90s, it is said that Peter Aven, who worked briefly in 1992 as Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, established contacts with world Freemasonry in this post. He himself is a fixed Mason, a member of the Interaction Club and the Rotary Club. Aven, like most of Yeltsin's "first call" reformers, was trained at the Institute of Economic Relations (IER) in the UK. This is not an ordinary institution. It is founded by one of the most secret and most impenetrable Masonic lodges, the Society of Mont Pelerin.

Today Mont Pelerin has about 500 members. Lodge conventions are held once every two years, each time in a different country. The place and time of these Masonic gatherings is strictly classified. In 1983-1985, special training at the Institute of Economics of the Mont Pelerin Society was given to: E. Gaidar, A. Chubais, V. Potanin, A. Shokhin, K. Kagalovsky, B. Fedorov (the same one who later became the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation will leave resign and take up a post on the Board of Directors of Gazprom - VB), P. Aven, V. Mau, E. Yasin and other "reformers". Let us add to this that the Mont Pelerin Masonic lodge from its very inception was subsidized by British intelligence, was under its control and protectorate, carried out its special assignments ...

Oddly enough, after becoming president of the Russian Federation for the first time, B. Putin hired Andrey Illarionov as an adviser on economic issues, who took over contacts with the Mont Pelerin society. In early 2004, a delegation from this Masonic lodge came to Moscow, and President Putin received them for four consecutive hours. Illarionov was the main organizer of this meeting.

Devils from the box

“49-year-old political strategist Vyacheslav Smirnov, director of the Research Institute of Political Sociology, a member of the Public Scientific and Methodological Advisory Council under the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, is preparing to start working in the Presidential Administration.

Smirnov will become the chief adviser to the Office of the Presidential Administration for ensuring the activities of the State Council of the Russian Federation. The head of the department is Alexander Kharichev, the right (and indispensable) hand of the curator of domestic politics, Sergei Kiriyenko. Smirnov, most likely, will be monitoring regional election campaigns. You can also expect proposals from him on changing and developing the party system. According to the decree of Vladimir Putin, the department for ensuring the activities of the State Council is entrusted with the functions of "ensuring the interaction of the President of the Russian Federation with expert organizations, monitoring and analyzing social processes." It is the employees of this unit that most closely intersect with the election process.”

In the Russian political beau monde, Smirnov is well known as "a master of black PR, including evil trolling, fake information throws, namesakes in elections, street trash shows, etc." His work biography speaks of him as a modern-day Ostap Bender from politics, an unprincipled adventurer and an omnivorous political pimp. Gazeta.ru cites his track record as follows: “He worked hard as the director of the department of regional political programs, head of the special propaganda department of the Novokom IAC. He made a number of election campaigns - from mayor's in small towns to governor's in large regions. Headed: All-Russian Committee of Citizens for Fair Elections, Federal Electoral Headquarters of the CEC of United Russia, Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of Russia (DPR), National Democratic Institute of International Relations, Russian Lobby Foundation for Political Consulting and Management, Moscow branch of the Right Cause party, the Central Committee of the Russian Party of Motorists, the Central Council of the Union of Citizens party, etc. The author of the project of the Zionist party Kosher Russia (end of 2015). He ran for deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 5th and 6th convocations, legislative bodies of almost all regions of Russia - from North Ossetia - Alania to the Novosibirsk and Moscow regions, from the federal city of Sevastopol to Cherkessk, Bryansk and Novosibirsk, from the Moscow municipal district "Savelovskoye" to position of the head of the city district of Khimki. In the fall of 2017, he announced his intention to run for the presidency of the Russian Federation from the Union of Citizens party under the playful slogan “Let's be naughty!”. He carried out orders from the Kremlin, various oligarchs (including Boris Berezovsky, Oleg Deripaska, Alexei Mordashov), local financial and industrial groups, worked with pro-government parties in the near abroad. Not squeamish, rather - omnivorous. He calls himself a "ritualist", a gamer and an adventurer.

Knowledgeable people believe that Smirnov was invited to Staraya Square after he successfully worked in Primorsky Krai over the victory of the Kremlin candidate Oleg Kozhemyako.

To the message about the Kremlin engagement V.N. Smirnov, no one would have paid attention if he had not been a Freemason of high degrees of initiation. He is the right hand and official assistant of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia Bogdanov and in the Masonic hierarchy even a degree higher than him. According to Sovershenno Sekretno weekly, Smirnov is not only the second person in the leadership of the Grand Lodge of Russia, but also the leading Russian representative of the Egyptian (esoteric or "revolutionary") Memphis-Mizraim Freemasonry, created by the famous warlock and adventurer Giuseppe Balsamo, better known as Alessandro Cagliostro. Since 2009, Smirnov has been titled "Grand Sovereign Master Grand Commander of the Sovereign Russian Sanctuary of the Eastern Masonic Order of the Ancient and Primordial Rite of Memphis-Mizraim 33:.90:.96:.", "Vice-President of the International Sovereign Sanctuary of the Eastern Masonic Order of the Ancient and Primordial Rite Memphis-Misraim".

It must be assumed that those who recommended V. Smirnov for the position of a high-ranking employee of the Presidential Administration, including those who are responsible for this in the FSB, knew that he was the owner of the highest degree among Russian regular Freemasons. He has the 96th degree according to the charter of Memphis-Misraim, while Andrei Bogdanov himself has only the 95th. The same Vyacheslav Smirnov represents the Italian order "Great Orient of Italy" in the international association of orders of Egyptian Freemasonry "The World Association of Egyptian Obediences". And all these titles are not just Masonic trinkets for internal consumption in lodges, but also a mandate to belong to the leadership of world Freemasonry, to which Russian Freemasonry is spiritually and organizationally subordinate, no matter how much Bogdanov and Smirnov rant about its “independence”.

Let me remind you that on June 30, 2007 Bogdanov was elected and installed to the position of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia. Its election and installation were attended by representatives of the world's oldest United Grand Lodge of England and American Grand Lodges, longtime accomplices of the world behind the scenes. Not everyone gets that kind of honor. Obviously, in the Masonic nomenclature, he is far from the last place. In July 2010, Andrei Bogdanov was re-elected to the position of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia for a period of 5 years, until 2015, and then re-elected to this post and will hold the position of its Grand Master for another 5 years, until 2020. I will especially note that the Grand Lodge of Russia, headed by Bogdanov, was recognized by the Recognition Commission of the Conference of Grand Lodges (Grand Masters) of North America as meeting the “recognition standards”. So he has a direct connection with American and world Freemasonry.

The mysticism of the Egyptian rite and Masonic vigils in the workshops of the Grand Lodge of Russia do not prevent either Bogdanov or Smirnov from engaging in one of the most profitable businesses in Russia - political technology, the creation of political organizations and parties to participate in regional, federal and even presidential elections in Russia. In this case, he and Bogdanov act as long-term business partners of the main Kremlin puppeteer Vladislav Surkov, with whom Bogdanov began to cooperate even before Smirnov. They are called "record holders" in terms of party building, since when Surkov was deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, they together acted as the founders of more than a dozen federal parties.

It all started with the fact that Bogdanov, on behalf of Surkov, set about creating a quasi-patriotic Rus party, which he reformatted on the basis of the Russian Stability Party (RPS), founded in 1992 and consistently adhering to liberal political views. Political scientist Alexei Makarkin wrote: “Recently, a hitherto little-known structure called the United Russian Party (URP) “Rus” has been actively promoted in the media. Her commercials are designed in a patriotic way with active pedaling of the concept of "Russian". At the same time, the leaders of "Rus" are little known not only in big politics, but also in the nationalist crowd, where the project of creating this party is considered the result of the efforts of the Presidential Administration ”(Politkom.ru. 08.29.2003. - V.B.). Behind these efforts was the same V. Surkov. Bogdanov and Smirnov, heading his team of political technologists, as experienced provocateurs, have repeatedly tried to use the slogan of this party “Russia for the Russians!”, On the one hand, to mobilize support for the government by Russian nationalists, and on the other hand, to whip up hostility towards the Russians.

“I don't care what batch to make, the orientation depends on the customer,” says Bogdanov. He doesn't care about ideology. There would be money. He even revived the CPSU in his own way - the Communist Party of Social Justice. In fact, no one bought it.

As it turned out, the creation of a turnkey party is a very profitable business, especially when the order comes from the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, as was the case in 2000 in connection with the creation of United Russia. It is known for sure that Surkov supervised this project personally. The business was very profitable. In 2005, Bogdanov, revealing the "kitchen of party building", was frank: "Now no one undertakes to create parties for less than $ 1 million." In November 2008, Bogdanov co-founded the Just Cause party, but did not enter its governing bodies. Its co-chairs were the leader of Delovaya Rossiya Boris Titov, as well as well-known liberals - the former deputy chairman of Boris Nemtsov for the Union of Right Forces, the Zionist Leonid Gozman and journalist Georgy Bovt. At the same time, Bogdanov added his brother Timur as a member of the Federal Council of the new party. Before the 2012 presidential election, this party was successfully sold to the richest contender for the highest post in Russia, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. (By the way, as Moskovsky Komsomolets recalled, Ksenia Sobchak was then the first to dress up in a T-shirt with a portrait of an oligarch and, forgetting all the insults, including the Courchevel betrayal, ran to interview Prokhorov). Prokhorov headed Right Cause for a short time - from June 25, 2011 to September 16, 2011, and in this capacity he successfully performed during the election campaign against Putin, confidently gaining points. Apparently, this alarmed the applicant for a return to the Kremlin. And Prokhorov was simply thrown. Surkov summoned him to the Kremlin, where the oligarch learned that he had already been removed from the leadership of his own party. Prokhorov openly declared then that "the Kremlin's puppeteer Surkov is behind all this." But the raider seizure of this party, fully paid for by Prokhorov, was prepared by the same “high-ranking Masons” Bogdanov and Smirnov. After the Right Cause scandal, Prokhorov disappeared from public politics for three months. They say that the same "iron lady" - his sister Irina - returned him there. But, of course, much more influential people were interested in his return, primarily the Bilderbergs and his fellow tribesmen from the list of "richest Jews."

The 2018 presidential campaign showed that Bogdanov and Smirnov, with their team of seasoned political technologists, are still in demand. The business of these political peddlers is on a grand scale. In August 2015, Bogdanov announced the sale of a dozen officially registered political parties created by his Center for Social Technologies for $250,000 each. He proposed to replace the party leadership with the people proposed by the buyer for $1 million, and at the same time organize intra-party voting on the proposed issues, transfer reports to the Ministry of Justice and other actions to create a working structure.

The 2018 Sobchak project is also the work of Bogdanov and Smirnov, who offered her their help on a tip from the same Surkov. For those elections, Andrey Bogdanov created a fresh forum of non-parliamentary parties "Third Force". He stated that he was ready to help Ksenia Sobchak to run for president of Russia for free from one of the small parties that are part of his forum. These are the "People's Alliance", the Democratic Party of Russia, the "Union of Citizens", "Civic Position". Bogdanov, who created these parties together with Smirnov under the auspices of Surkov to manipulate elections at various levels in Russia, offered Sobchak favorable conditions: a candidate from any registered party needs to collect 100 thousand signatures, but an independent one - 300 thousand. How much Sobchak had to pay for this service is unknown. According to political analyst Valery Soloviev, her campaign was supposed to be financed by "whoever the presidential administration recommends to do so."

Bogdanov, as you know, put forward his candidacy for the presidency of Russia back in 2007. Smirnov also tried to run for president. Both of them did not hide their belonging to the Masonic lodges, but, on the contrary, they promoted themselves in every possible way as Masons. The results of these self-nominated candidates were deplorable.

In March 2008, it was reported that Bogdanov won only 1.3% of the Russian vote. But the main thing for him was not the result, but participation. Even at the beginning of that election campaign, he said that he was nominated for the post of head of state not by a party whose members allegedly "did not have time to convene the congress", but by some "initiative group of citizens." As it turned out, Bogdanov did not hide this during the pre-election television debate either: this “group of citizens” is nothing more than a group of Freemasons, members of the Grand Lodge of Russia directly headed by Bogdanov, behind which is world Freemasonry, and above all its American branch. And Vladislav Surkov was undoubtedly behind this, without whose permission Bogdanov would not have been allowed to run in the presidential elections and would not have been allowed to debate on state television with Zhirinovsky and other Russian presidential candidates. It was the peak of the puppetry of the Kremlin "gray eminence".

Modern Russian Freemasonry cannot boast of the fact that it unites intellectuals of the highest standard. The level is usually average. Bogdanov began his career at the Academy of Sciences, but as a cloakroom attendant he does not have a higher education. V. Smirnov graduated from the Moscow Automotive College. But this does not in any way prevent the Great Wardrobe Officer and the Great Auto Mechanic, as evil tongues dubbed them, parodying Masonic titles, to penetrate into the power structures of modern Russia and act there in the interests of world freemasonry.

Masonic style

The further the Russian ruling elite moves away from the people, the stronger the desire of these elites for isolation, secret societies and clubs of the Masonic model and for esoteric practices. All repeats. Something similar was observed in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. As the revolutionary storm brewed, the minds of the elite were ruled by mystics - from Papus to the mother - the founder of theosophy - the syncretic religious-mystical teaching of Helena Blavatsky and her followers. Like mushrooms after the rain on the eve of the revolution of 1917, Masonic lodges bred, and it is known how it all ended.

Starting from the first years of perestroika, various kinds of esoteric sects and "churches" began to appear in Russia. The most famous of these is the Church of Scientology, founded after the Second World War by the American preacher Hubbard. On November 23, 2015, at the suit of the Ministry of Justice, the Moscow City Court ruled that the Church of Scientology in Moscow would self-liquidate within six months, having been found to have violated the Federal Law “On Freedom of Religion and Religious Associations in the Russian Federation”. This was not the first attempt to get rid of this church in Russia, but after each ban it was revived again only in a different form and under a different name. Such a survival rate indicates that this "church", and in fact the sect, has a strong "hand" at the very top of Russia's power. The first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, who openly communicated with Hubbard's emissaries and is considered a follower of Scientology, has been directly accused of patronizing Scientologists more than once in the Russian media. Here is what the Kommersant newspaper reported: “The publication of the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung became a sensation, from which it follows that acting. Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko belongs to the Scientology sect. The story turned out to be very simple. In 1995, when Sergei Kiriyenko (the surname was taken from his mother, he is Israel from his Jewish father. - V.B.) was the president of the Nizhny Novgorod bank Garantiya, the bank's managers, like many Nizhny Novgorod businessmen, participated in the Hubbard College seminar, one of the structures of the Church of Scientology. (“Kommersant” No. 57 of 04/02/1998. - V.B.). Kiriyenko himself denies any connection with Scientologists, but Hubbard's followers use his name in every possible way for self-promotion. Thus, according to the newspaper "Megapolis-Express" dated August 20, 1998, a portrait of Kiriyenko hung in the Paris Dianetics Center, which Scientologists showed to all visitors, claiming that he achieved his high position thanks to the use of Hubbard's technologies. ("Megapolis-Express" dated August 20, 1998 - V.B.).

Scientologists actively use knowledge about the intimate life of those who have been trained by them for subsequent blackmail. Therefore, in the Federal Republic of Germany, people associated with Scientology are not accepted into the civil service, even for the most insignificant posts. But in Russia this practice, alas, is ignored. It is known that Eva Vasilevskaya, the daughter of Putin’s court director, a supporter of the Church of Scientology Igor Shadkhan, worked for a long time as a speechwriter and referent for Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, about whose connection with the President of Russia the agency APN North-West wrote back in 2009.

In addition to secretaries and PR people, open lobbyists of Scientologists are regularly exposed in the authorities with impunity. Among them are the former vice-president of Russia Alexander Rutskoi, the chairman of the Novgorod Regional Duma from United Russia, the mayor of Perm Vladimir Fil and other quite officials. In addition to them, Vyacheslav Kantor, a billionaire close to the administrative vertical and close to the administrative vertical, contributed a lot to the sect.

Kiriyenko, after his appointment to the post of the first deputy head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, was also spoken of as a member of the elite "circle of methodologists" ("Shchedrovites" - V.B.). The founder of the Moscow Methodological Circle in 1958 was the philosopher Georgy Shchedrovitsky, who was close in his views to Scientologists. Methodologists believe that there are universal methods for solving any problems. The way to solve and develop these methods is the so-called organizational-activity games.

The following were familiar with the developments of the “methodologists”: former Minister of Energy Viktor Khristenko (he called himself a student of Shchedrovitsky. - V.B.), presidential assistant for economic issues Andrei Belousov (in 1995 he wrote an article for a collection of methodologists), Kiriyenko’s adviser in the Volga Federal District Sergey Gradirovsky , State Duma deputy and leader of the Civic Platform party Rifat Shaikhutdinov and others.

Russian elites from the highest power structures created other closed societies on the Masonic model. The BBC has counted five main "societies", which include top-ranking Russian officials. Among them, the most influential are the so-called "Afontsy" - members of the Russian Athos Society (RAO), which was founded in 2005 with the participation of Patriarch Alexy II and the then mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov. It is known that the Athos from RAO go: Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov, Vladimir Putin's partners in judo - businessmen Arkady and Boris Rotenberg and others.

"A freemason in Russia is more than a freemason." First of all, he is the “sun of Russian poetry”, an invincible commander, a classic of Russian literature, the creator of the “History of the Russian State”, the head of the Provisional Government, and only in the second, and sometimes third, a freemason.

January 7, 1761 Suvorov was promoted to the Scottish masters of the Masonic lodge "To the Three Crowns". The first lodge of Freemasons was founded in London on June 24, 1717. Freemasonry spread from Great Britain to other countries, including Russia, where Masons enjoyed great influence in the 18th and first third of the 19th centuries. There was a tradition among Russian Masons that the first Masonic lodge in Russia was founded by Peter the Great. To many, the absence of social inequality between the brothers, the protection of the interests of the brothers by all members of the lodge seemed an attractive idea. At their meetings, the lodges discussed various theoretical and practical issues, played the role of political clubs and philosophical societies at the same time. Masons have traditions, symbols, Masons have come up with a new story for themselves, dating back to the construction of Solomon's temple. Russian Freemasonry set itself the task of "knowledge of the secrets of being" through Christian tolerance and the "obligation of conciliar work", which included self-improvement, spiritual creativity, and enlightenment. We decided to talk about the most famous Russian Freemasons.

SUVOROV

Suvorov was admitted to the Masonic Order in 1761. At that time, Freemasonry had not yet won wide sympathy, so Suvorov joined the Brotherhood not on the wave of fashion, but out of deep spiritual necessity, and was one of the first Russian freemasons. At the same time, he not only joined the Brotherhood, but went through several stages: Suvorov was initiated and promoted to the third degree of a master in St. Petersburg. And although only a few documents speak of his belonging to the order - in particular, in the list of the Königsberg Lodge dated March 16, 1761, recently discovered in the archive of the Grand National Lodge of Three Globes in Berlin, Oberleutnant Alexander von Suvorov is listed at number 6 - well-known circumstances his life: religiosity, asceticism, the struggle with passions, especially characteristic of Freemasonry of that period, testify to this.

KUTUZOV

In 1779, the commander Kutuzov joined the lodge "To the Three Keys" in Regensburg. He came to seek in the brotherhood "the strength to fight the passions and the keys to the mysteries of the world." Traveling around Europe, he also entered the lodges of Frankfurt and Berlin, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Among historians, there is a version that it was Suvorov who recommended Kutuzov's Masonic brothers, who became for him not only a military man, but also a spiritual mentor. Kutuzov rose to high ranks and was one of the most influential members of the fraternity, linking his name to the lodge for more than 30 years. Upon initiation into the 7th degree of Swedish Freemasonry, Kutuzov received an order name - the Greening Laurel, and the motto - "Glorify yourself with victories", which became prophetic. Some historians of Freemasonry believe that it was the Masonic society that contributed to the appointment of Kutuzov as the leader of the forces in the fight against Napoleon, who seemed to the Masons of the early 19th century the embodiment of evil, lust for power and violence. Masons considered it their duty to resist this evil.

PUSHKIN

In his diary, Pushkin made an entry in 1821: "On May 4, I was admitted to the Freemasons." He received initiation in the Ovid lodge in Chisinau, it was never recognized as official, and in November of the same year was forced to stop working. In addition, on August 1, 1822, Alexander I signed a decree banning Masonic lodges and all secret societies in general. Thus, Pushkin's initiation into Freemasonry was, as it were, unofficial, although it took place in compliance with all the subtleties of the ritual. Nevertheless, most historians are sure that Pushkin simply could not help but be a Freemason: the environment from which the poet came out was saturated with Masonic ideas. His father Sergei Lvovich and uncle Vasily Lvovich were members of the brotherhood, in the house they constantly read the magazines of the Masons N. Novikov and I. Lopukhin, the publications of A. Labzin and P. Beketov. Many pupils of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, where Pushkin studied, the poet's inner circle, people with whom he either saw often or, later, corresponded, became brothers of the St. Petersburg lodges. Exiled to the south, Pushkin met with many Masons: Raevsky, Pestel, S. Volkonsky and others. Perhaps, without formally participating in the work of any of the lodges, he was constantly in the company of Masons, participated in their conversations, so the symbolism of the lodge and the Masonic ritual was as clear to him as to those around him. Researchers of his work have repeatedly found the symbolism of masons in his poems and stories. In addition, before the funeral, Prince Vyazemsky put a glove into the poet's coffin as a sign of recognition of his brother in the bed.

CHAADAEV

Chaadaev was one of the brightest characters among the Masons. Few people could compare with him in terms of erudition, brilliant erudition, excellent memory and intellectual level. Pushkin called him the smartest man in Russia and recognized him as his teacher. The formation of Chaadaev's philosophical outlook was greatly influenced by the works of his relative, Prince M. M. Shcherbatov, who at one time was a very famous Freemason. Chaadaev himself was admitted to the Masonic lodge in 1814 in Krakow and reached one of the highest degrees of initiation into the order - the eighth degree of the "Secret White Brothers of John's Lodge" out of nine possible. However, being a man of very independent judgments, not recognizing any doctrines, in 1821 Chaadaev became disillusioned with Freemasonry and left the lodge. The reasons that prompted to move away from Freemasonry, Chaadaev outlined in a letter. It seemed to him that the rituals of the masons were empty, and the brothers preferred talking about intentions instead of actions.

Kerensky

Alexander Kerensky is considered one of the most prominent representatives of Freemasonry of the 20th century. At the end of 1912, he was accepted as a member of the Great East of the Peoples of Russia Masonic lodge, which was not recognized by others as a Masonic organization, since it set political activity as a priority for itself. Radicals were strong in the organization, who advocated a republican structure of the state. Among the three hundred members of this Masonic lodge were representatives of almost all political parties and deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, who could quite successfully influence Russian politics of that time. Four years later, in 1916, Kerensky was elected general secretary of the Masonic lodge. Historians believe that Kerensky's rapid political career, which began in 1917, is due to his influence and authority in the Masonic organization. After the February Revolution, Kerensky finds himself simultaneously in two opposing bodies of power: in the first composition of the Provisional Government as Minister of Justice, and in the first composition of the Petrograd Soviet as deputy chairman. Then there was the post of military and naval minister of the Provisional Government, which was the peak of Kerensky's political career. After the Bolsheviks came to power, Kerensky emigrated from Russia.

It was not enough for the diplomat and writer Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov to be a member of the most numerous Masonic lodge of St. Petersburg "United Friends". He wanted to improve it, his letters and notes have been preserved about this. To be called, according to the project of Griboedov, this lodge was supposed to be “Good”. Instead of the official French language, the language of all its affairs was to be Russian, despite the fact that there were many foreigners in it. And this goal - the goal of enlightening Russia, spreading Russian letters - the members of the lodge should have seen as their first task. Griboedov was convinced that the forces expended on the pomp and gloomy solemnity of meetings, on ritualism, could be used with great intelligence. Griboyedov's projects show the seriousness of his attitude towards membership in the Masonic organization and, of course, his ambition and some idealism. By the way, he was not the only Freemason-diplomat, and connections among Freemasons contributed a lot to his diplomatic career. Unlike Karamzin or Chaadaev, Griboyedov never left the Masonic lodge - at least not with papers and a manifesto.

Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov is a member of the "Shop of Poets", an acmeist, which in itself is already associated with the ideas and symbols of Freemasonry, because the word "acme" contains the image of a stone, as well as "Cadmus" - a reference to Adam, "the first freemason". The "shop of poets" was conceived as a "poetic lodge" headed by the "perfect master" Gumilyov. Many of Gumilyov's works (the play "Akteon", the collection "Quiver", "Gondla", the cycle "To the Blue Star" and, especially, "Pillar of Fire") contain Masonic motifs. It is assumed that in 1917 or 1918 Gumilyov was admitted to the "mystical lodge of English freemasons", but this is not known for certain. Although in one of the poet’s poems we meet: “Do you remember how before us / There was a temple blackening in darkness, / Above the gloomy altars / Fire signs were burning. / Solemn, granite-winged / He guarded our sleepy city, / They sang in it hammers and saws, / Freemasons worked in the night ... ".

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On June 24, 1717, the first official Masonic lodge began its work in England - a mysterious society of freemasons who have their own secret rites and symbols.

A few decades later, Freemasonry came to Russia. Freemasons included such famous Russian historical figures as Pushkin, Kutuzov, Suvorov, Chaadaev and others.

The BBC Russian Service spoke with contemporary Russian Freemasons and researchers of these societies to find out what modern Freemasonry is like in Russia.

Russian Freemasonry - what is it?

According to legend, Freemasonry was brought to Russia by Peter I, who became a Freemason during his foreign trips. The first Russian emperor, according to legend, became the first Grand Master of the first Russian lodge. However, there is no documentary evidence for this.

The first official Grand Master in Russia - the head of the Supreme Masonic Lodge - was in 1731 the English General John Philips. At that time, most Freemasons in Russia were foreigners who worked or did business in the Russian Empire.

The first Russian Grand Master was Ivan Elagin, who organized cultural evenings at the court of Catherine II. In 1770, he created the first Grand Lodge of Russia, which then included 17 other Masonic lodges.

The current Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia, Andrey Bogdanov, calls Freemasonry "one of the oldest public organizations in the world."

Modern Freemasonry in Russia arose in 1995, when the Grand Lodge of France created four Masonic lodges in Russia, and on their basis the Grand Lodge arose.

"Someone calls Freemasonry a men's club, someone calls it an educational club or an interest club. For me, it's all taken together," says Bogdanov.

Three themes

Bogdanov himself is a well-known Russian political strategist, one of the founders of the "Democratic Party of Russia" and a candidate for the Russian presidency in the 2008 elections. However, as he says, Masons are forbidden to discuss politics - for this they can even be expelled from the lodge.

"Freemasonry never aspired to political influence and did not have it. Individual members of society had political influence, but they were engaged in politics as individuals," Bogdanov told the BBC Russian Service. According to him, taboo in Freemasonry are "three topics that quarrel men" - politics, religion and women.

Like many rules of the work of Masonic lodges, the prohibition for women to join the Masonic society is determined by the order of life in medieval England, where the first lodge of freemasons began its work in 1717.

"Masons accept men of free and good morals who believe in the one God," the charter of the organization says.

"Free" in 18th-century England were people who had no debts and could provide for themselves financially. Women at that time practically did not have their own income, therefore they could not be considered "free", and, therefore, could not join Masonic lodges. Until now, "traditional Freemasonry" does not accept women.

But there is also "non-traditional" - women can come there and discuss politics, but "classical" Masons do not recognize such societies.

"Just, let's say, 10 people gathered and decided that they would be Freemasons, they would accept women and discuss politics. They took zapons (special Masonic aprons). Masonic lodges are considered Masons," explains Bogdanov.

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The modern rite of initiation into Masons differs little from what it was 300 years ago. A layman (not a Mason) knocks (asks) to the box. Further, the masters of this lodge conduct conversations with him. The layman must receive two letters of recommendation from active Freemasons in order to be considered for consideration.

After the layman has collected recommendations, he will have to undergo an "interrogation under a bandage." A person is brought into the box blindfolded and asked questions about his life: "What is freedom?", "What is brotherhood?", "What have you done wrong in life, what are you ashamed of? What is good?" “They usually ask questions that a person does not ask himself and which he does not answer in front of himself,” says Bogdanov.

After that, the members of the lodge vote to accept the new "brother". The minimum number of lodges is seven people. If three Masonic brothers spoke out against it, then the profane is denied admission. If three Freemasons are against, then the person will no longer become a Freemason, regardless of whether there are seven members in the lodge or a thousand.

At the same time, a person who wants to become a Freemason should not have problems with the law and he should not be judged. "We will not accept Alexei Navalny, he has been convicted," Bogdanov notes.

Having passed the rite of initiation, the layman becomes a student - this is the first degree (level) of Freemasonry. Next, he needs to become an apprentice, and then a master. Having reached the third degree, a person becomes a Mason.

According to Bogdanov, in order to get a degree, you need to write some kind of architectural work, the theme of which is chosen by the lodge. The works are written on the topics of Masonic ritualism, perception and understanding of secret esoteric signs.

A Mason must attend the work of his lodge once a month and once a year attend the assembly (congress) of the Grand Lodge of his country. Also, a Mason can optionally receive additional degrees by choosing for himself the so-called charter: Scottish, York, French, or many others.

Now in Russia and the CIS countries there are 38 so-called venerable lodges in 17 cities of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Georgia. All of them are united by the Grand Lodge of Russia, which is headed by Bogdanov.

According to him, about a thousand people knock on Masons every year, but less than a hundred new members are admitted to Freemasons every year: “People who don’t know what Freemasonry is often knock on the door. And we want too."

“We never call anyone to us, they always knock on us. At the same time, we are not a secret organization, we are an organization with a secret. One of the main secrets of Freemasonry is who is a Freemason,” says Grand Master Bogdanov.

He refused to answer questions from the BBC about how many Freemasons occupy seats in the State Duma and the government, or which of the celebrities is a Freemason: "If I myself did not reveal my name, then none of the brothers would betray me."

The tradition of hiding one's belonging to the society of freemasons also comes from England, where there were persecutions of non-members of secret societies. Freemasons also remember the Second World War, in which many freemasons died due to the ban on Freemasonry in the Third Reich.

Modern Freemasonry in Russia

According to Bogdanov, about 1.2 thousand people are now in the Grand Lodge of Russia. Freemasons come from business, law enforcement and political structures, artists and the educated middle class.

The Grand Lodge of Russia has existed for 22 years, and the average age of its members is 35 years. The average age in Western lodges, according to Bogdanov, is 65 years. There are currently 12 Masonic lodges in Moscow, and in St. Petersburg and other large Russian cities - 2-3 lodges each.

"Masonry is the knowledge of oneself in this world. We do not discuss religion, but we discuss spiritual life and philosophy," Bogdanov answers the question of what freemasons do after all. Assistant Grand Master Vyacheslav Smirnov (who also took part in the formation of the Democratic Party of Russia) says that Freemasonry helps to establish business connections and find new friends.

Modern Freemasons in Russia and other countries pay great attention to charity. Most often, Masons take care of orphanages or hospitals. Donations are paid from the "widow's cup" (a bag into which anyone can put any amount of money after the end of the lodge).

At the same time, according to Bogdanov, Russian freemasonry is not at all rich - freemasons in Russia still do not have their own building in Moscow. Freemasons rent halls in hotels for the work of lodges.

Each Freemason pays two installments: the first is annual, and the second is the introductory one, which is paid by the layman, knocking on the box, or the freemason moving into a new degree. The amount of contributions ranges from 6 to 18 thousand rubles. In Russia and the CIS countries, Masonic lodges are registered as NGOs.

The Grand Lodge of Russia is also engaged in bringing light (opening new lodges) to other countries and cities. In 2015, the Grand Lodge of Georgia was established, and in 2016, the Grand Lodge of Kazakhstan. This year, the Freemasons want to open the Grand Lodge of Belarus on the basis of the already existing three lodges.

They can be excluded from Masons. They are most often expelled for deceit, failure to pay dues, and dishonest behavior, such as when a Mason abandons his family. Some freemasons themselves become disillusioned with Freemasonry and leave the lodges.

In Russia, out of five who have joined Masons, 2-3 people remain in lodges after five years, says Vyacheslav Smirnov.

Secret Masonic Conspiracy

The myths around Freemasonry, according to Bogdanov, are connected with the peculiarities of "Soviet education, when young people were told about the world domination of the Jewish Masons."

“I used to think that Freemasons are not very sane people. They were nowhere to be seen, and there was such an impression. Freemasonry is reprehensible, because it is little known,” says Smirnov.

Many still become members of Masonic lodges in order to join the "worldwide conspiracy". “Someone comes and says: “Where are your ministers at the meeting? But did you come there? Maybe this lodge is not for ministers, because you yourself are not a minister either," Smirnov says.

Sergey Arzhanukhin, a researcher of Russian Freemasonry, believes that the state itself spread rumors about a Masonic conspiracy in the 18th-19th centuries due to opposition to secret societies.

"Russian Freemasonry arose in the process of the formation of secular culture, it is one of the first institutions of civil society in Russia. It is clear that the accusations of a conspiracy came from the state. Because the state and civil society always have a conflict. But there is no document that would confirm the conspiratorial character of this organization," he says.

By decree of Emperor Alexander I in 1821 Freemasonry was banned in Russia as a secret society.

According to Bogdanov, Freemasons are law-abiding citizens and cannot organize their activities where they are forbidden by the authorities. Even among the Decembrists, according to him, there were almost no Masons - freemasons supported the tsar.

According to Arzhanukhin, Masons do not have political influence either in tsarist times or in modern Russia. Another researcher of freemasons, Andrey Serkov, also speaks about this. According to him, some former members of the State Duma are masons, but there are no masons in the ruling elite of Russia.

At the same time, Serkov draws attention to the personality of the Grand Master Andrei Bogdanov, who was actively involved in politics in the zero years.

"To build a 'Democratic Party', to renew the CPSU and lead Freemasonry... This is his next project," says the historian.

According to him, Bogdanov was elected to the post of Supreme Master at the moment when he ran for president in 2008.

"It was prestigious. But Freemasonry had no influence in modern Russia," he said.

SO was recently published in the media: "specialists from the University of Zurich conducted a mathematical analysis of the relationships of 43,000 transnational corporations and made a frightening conclusion: the world is ruled by one giant" supercorporation ".

It is she who "pulls the strings" of the global economy.

To model the image of the global corporate system, the experts processed a huge amount of data reflecting the ownership relations between the largest transnational corporations.

“Reality is so complex that we had to move away from dogmas, whether it be conspiracy theories or free market theories,” explained the author of the study, complex systems theorist James Glattfelder. “Our analysis is based on real data.”

Previous studies have shown that a relatively small group of companies and banks own the lion's share of the global "economic pie", from which everyone else is left with only crumbs.

However, these studies have overlooked indirect relationships - the relationship of corporations with subsidiaries and affiliates.

After sorting through the 37 million companies and investors worldwide represented in the 2007 Orbis C database, the Zurich-based research team selected 43,060 multinational corporations and identified their total assets.

A model was built for the distribution of the economic influence of TNCs through the control of some companies over others: ownership of funds, participation in profits, etc.

Scientists have found a core of 1,318 companies whose ties to others can hardly be called anything other than incestuous. Each of these 1,318 companies had the closest relationship with two or more other companies (average number of affiliated partners was 20).

While these corporations' official earnings barely exceed 20% of global operating revenue, they actually own most of the world's companies operating in the "real" economy through their satellite firms. Thus, about 60% of global income is concentrated in the tentacles of corporate monsters.

Continuing to unravel the vast web of ownership, the team found that the majority of financial chains are headed in the direction of a "superenclave" of 147 companies. Their assets intersect with each other, effectively being common property, which gives this unspoken financial conglomerate control of 40% of global corporate wealth.

Most of these "supercorporations" are financial institutions. So, entered the top 10:

1. Barclays plc

2. Capital Group Companies Inc.

3. FMR Corporation

5 State Street Corporation

6JP Morgan Chase & Co

7. Legal & General Group plc

8Vanguard Group Inc.

10 Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.

Analyze this list yourself, dear readers, and you will see that these are not ordinary companies, and not ordinary people work there. The analysis revealed the connection between the leaders of these super giants of the world economy and secret societies, namely Masonic lodges. Some of these companies were founded directly by people - members of Masonic organizations, and some with their participation.

LET'S GO TO THE RUSSIAN MASONS.

It is known that by the mid-50s of the 20th century, some Russian Freemasons had completely left Freemasonry: Bernstein, Niedermiller, Lebedev, Lomeyer, Zhdanov, Grunberg. Others went over to the French lodges, which by this time had begun to revive little by little, but their future was extremely doubtful.

An anonymous author reports: "New forces have been found." It can be assumed that these were brothers from the Vekhi and Free Russia lodges, who were taken in by Lotus, but for some reason they were still listed in the Obedience of the Great East: Jakeli, Dzhanshiev, Kadish, Kangisser, Aronsberg, Shamin (from the French lodge), G.G. Karganov (from the mixed lodge "France?Armenie").

In 1959 the fateful moment came: the Grand Lodge broke off relations with the Grand Orient. The last document in the Masonic archive is the last list of those present at the session of the lodge "Northern Star", February 25, 1965. This does not mean that this session was the last. They continued for another five or six years.

It is characteristic that the Masons, who at one time left the United States and returned to France after the Second World War, apparently never returned to st. Kade. In this last list - all the surnames belong to the "third generation" of Russian Freemasonry, their average age was 60-65 years.

Here is the list: M...R...., V. Grosser, A. Marshak, S. Grunberg, S. Der...sky, Gorbunov, A. Orlov, V. Marshak, A. Julius, A. Barlant, A. Shimunek (indecipherable - perhaps this is Shishunok), I. Fidder, T.S ...., A, Poznyak, G. Gazdanov, Petrovsky, S. Lutsky.

After the rupture of the two Rites in 1959, how to understand the presence of brothers from the Grand Lodge at the session of the Grand Orient? Maybe whoever wanted to came, and no one was asked where he came from, and whether he had the right to be present in the temple? If this is true, then not only the ability to compromise was lost, but also the sense of Masonic discipline.

17 people attended the session in 1965, according to the last list above. It must be taken with caution, it is composed carelessly and does not inspire much confidence. But we don't have another. S.P. Theakston told me in Paris in 1960: "Some are paralyzed and confused by the consciousness of an approaching end that we are powerless to fight." Of these 17 people, half remained by 1970. And then something happened that was supposed to happen: five people came to one of the sessions. Who they were is unknown. Was there at least one Master among them - the All-Wise, the Venerable, or at least only the Secret? But the letter of the law since St. Tybalt demanded that there be seven of them in the temple. And the French Great East took away their premises from the Russian brothers, following the letter of the law. And that was the end of Russian Freemasonry in exile.

SOVIET MASONS.

"The program for the activities of agents of influence in the USSR was personally developed by the Freemason A. Dulles, the future director of the CIA. Having become a Freemason while still studying at Princeton, Dulles already in the mid-20s reaches the 33rd degree and other Masonic regalia. In 1927 he becomes one of the directors of the international Masonic coordinating center - the Council on Foreign Relations, in 1933 he receives the key post of secretary, and since 1946 - the president of this organization.

"The first contacts of the future leaders of the CPSU with Freemasonry date back to the sixties and seventies. M.S. Gorbachev had contact with Freemasonry, apparently, during his vacation in Italy, where Masonic lodges controlled by the CIA were then operating, which aimed to contain communism (in particular, the famous "Propaganda-2" lodge, headed by CIA agent L. Jelly). A. N. Yakovlev's contacts with Freemasonry date back to the time of his stay in the USA and Canada.

"The first published news about M. Gorbachev's affiliation with freemasons appears on February 1, 1988 in the German small-circulation magazine Mer Licht" ("More Light"). Similar information is published in the New York newspaper "New Russian Word" (December 4, 1989) However, the strongest evidence of Gorbachev's belonging to Freemasonry is his close contacts with the leading representatives of the world Masonic government and joining one of the main mondialist structures - the Trilateral Commission. "J. Soros, who in 1987 formed the so-called Soros Foundation-Soviet Union, from which the Soviet-American Cultural Initiative Foundation later grew."

“Gorbachev’s accession to the Trilateral Commission should be attributed to January 1989. The meeting of the main architects of Soviet perestroika and the “brothers” who worked for the “good” of the “Architect of the Universe” and the “new world order” took place in Moscow. The Trilateral Commission was represented by its chairman David Rockefeller (also head of the Council on Foreign Relations), Henry Kissinger (head of B'nai B'rith), J. Bertoine, V. Giscard d'Estaing and J. Nakasone. A. Yakovlev, E. Shevardnadze, G. Arbatov, E. Primakov, V. Medvedev and some others.

As a result of secret negotiations, agreements were worked out on joint activities, the nature of which at that time was not clear to anyone. However, everything became clear at the end of the same year, when, in the same composition of his associates as at the meeting with the delegation of the Trilateral Commission, M. Gorbachev met with President D. Bush on the island of Malta. The conclusion of an important agreement in Malta, the capital of the Order of the Knights of Malta, whose cavaliers are members of the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Club, as if symbolized a new stage in relations between the world behind the scenes and the leadership of the CPSU.

"The year 1990 becomes fatal in the history of Russia. In a short time, the system of governing the country is changing. Taking advantage of the transition period, Gorbachev and his associates from the former Politburo (Yakovlev, Shevardnadze, Medvedev, Primakov), where all the most important issues of domestic and foreign policy were decided ", in fact, they completely usurp power in the country. A conscious dismantling and destruction of many state structures is being carried out, and instead of them, shadow backstage authorities are being created, and above all Masonic lodges and organizations."

"It is characteristic that the first official Masonic structure that arose in the USSR was the international Jewish Masonic lodge B'nai B'rith. Permission to open it was received personally from Gorbachev at the request of one of the leaders of the order, H. Kissinger. L'Arche reported that a 21-member delegation from the French branch of B'nai B'rith, led by President Marc Aron, visited Moscow from December 23 to 29, 1988. The first lodge of this order was organized during the visit and by May it consisted of 63 members. By the same time, two more lodges were established in Vilnius and Riga, and later in St. Petersburg, Kiev, Odessa, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk.

“Since 1989, the Freemasons have carried out a widespread and even in a sense open campaign to promote subversive Masonic ideas and recruit new members in Russia. In March 1991, the CIA-funded Radio Liberty calls on residents of the USSR to establish contact for entry into Masonic lodges. The host of the program, F. Salkazanova, gave the address where Soviet citizens could sign up for a Masonic lodge in Paris, which was not a simple one, but was created specifically to "promote the spread of Freemasonry in Russia" and recreate a "Masonic structure" there.

To make this lodge attractive, they called it "Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin" (although the great Russian poet was not a Freemason). The “brothers” from this lodge who spoke in the program called for the moral and spiritual improvement of society, considering the United States as a model, which were based “from the very beginning on Masonic principles.”

"The Freemasons of France are striving to "lay their stone in the construction of democracy in Eastern and Central Europe." This was stated in September 1991 in Paris, speaking to journalists, by the Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Orient of France, J.R. The East intend to increase the necessary material and financial efforts for this purpose.

After some time, the Grand Master arrives in Moscow, and later visits St. Petersburg to organize proper Masonic work there. In parallel, the Grand National Lodge of France also operates. In April 1991, she initiated two Russian citizens into her ranks, who became the organizers of the Russian lodge "Northern Star".

"The day before the start of the August 1991 coup d'état, a member of the Pushkin lodge already mentioned by me arrived in Moscow from Paris, who emigrated from Odessa in 1922 (his name was kept secret). 8 more members of this lodge came to Moscow with him. Despite on disturbing events, this Masonic emissary opens on August 30, 1991 a new lodge "Novikov".

"As a result of the coup d'état in August-December 1991, the plans of the world behind the scenes were achieved. The world behind the scenes awards B.N. Yeltsin with the title that almost every member of the world Masonic government wears - Knight Commander of the Order of Malta. He receives it on November 16, 1991. No longer embarrassed, Yeltsin poses for reporters in the full garb of a knight-commander. In August 1992, Yeltsin signs Decree No. 827 "On the restoration of official relations with the Order of Malta."

"Relying on high support, Masonic lodges are growing like mushrooms in Russia. The first such organization in Russia was the Rotary International Masonic Club, which is widespread in Western countries, the opening of which was announced on June 6, 1990 in a report on the television program "Vremya." "White Freemasons" of the first call in this club are the heads of the administrations of Moscow and St. Petersburg Luzhkov and Sobchak, the banker Gusinsky, the well-known democratic functionaries M. Bocharov, A. Ananyev, Yu. "Cribble Institute and Similar Institutions".

"The so-called International Russian Club (IRC), created in 1992, is also a match for Rotary. This club was headed by M. Bocharov and Yeltsin's former press secretary P. Voshchanov. It included a number of well-known people, for example, Minister of Justice I. Fedorov , international deputy E. Ambartsumov, member of the Masonic Commission "Greater Europe", businessman Svyatoslav Fedorov, former head of state security V. Ivanenko, general K. Kobets, member of the Presidential Council A. Migranyan. According to the charter, the club consists of forty people, and each no more than a third can be added for a year, and each entrant is obliged to obtain three recommendations.

"Following the model of one of the main organizations of the world behind the scenes - the Bilderberg Club - in 1992 its Russian counterpart, the Magisterium Club, was created, initially uniting about 60 "brothers" in spirit. The key figure in this Masonic underground was the already mentioned J. Soros, who placed the article "Big money makes history" in the first issue of the club's secret bulletin. Other key figures of the club are the patriarchs of the Masonic movement in the former USSR A. Yakovlev and E. Shevardnadze. A. Sobchak, V. V. Ivanov are also represented in the "Magisterium" , S. Shatalin and others".

“A number of funds and clubs of a lower rank are being created in Russia. The most typical example of such an organization is the Interaction reform club, which brings together entrepreneurs, heads of banking, stock exchange institutions, and major government officials. The club was headed by E. T. Gaidar, as well as A. B. Chubais, K. N. Borovoy, L. I. Abalkin, E. G. Yasin, A. P. Pochinok, E. F. Saburov, O. R. Latsis, etc. Among the members of the club were B. G. Fedorov, S. N. Krasavchenko, N. P. Shmelev, S. S. Shatalin Close to the Interaction club is the International Fund for Economic and Social Reforms, headed by S. S. Shatalin. L. I. Abalkin and V. V. Bakatin.

"In 1993, another Masonic-type organization was created - the Order of the Eagle. Among the main founders are a well-known financial swindler, the head of the Stolichny bank, previously convicted A. Smolensky, banker P. Nakhmanovich, entrepreneur V. Neverov, one of the leaders of the international Masonic movement M. Shakkum, as well as such chess players G. Kasparov, S. Solovyov, sculptor Z. Tsereteli".

MASONS OF MODERN RUSSIA

There are Masonic lodges in Russia, one of the Masons, Andrey Bogdanov, even ran for the presidential election in 2008. The official website of the Grand Lodge of Russia is quite open to readers and points out, without prejudice, to its leaders and its structure. Maybe these people know something, maybe they are initiated, but they do not open up. But IT IS VERY PROBABLE THAT all this is not what was once the essence of real Masonic processes.

Now a closed political process also exists: there are closed groups, societies, structures that make very serious decisions - financial, political and military. But I would not dare to call them Masons. Maybe they use the principles of closed secret societies, but it is unlikely that this is accompanied by paraphernalia and oaths, as before.

Platonov's book "Russia Under the Power of Freemasons" seriously states that during perestroika, a number of famous people were agents of the influence of US Freemasons. To what extent does this reflect reality? The former adviser to the chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, retired major general of militia, Doctor of Law Vladimir Ovchinsky answers:

Doesn't reflect, says Ovchinsky. “I think Platonov gives out wishful thinking as real. There, of course, there were some secret agreements between certain people. The same Alexander Yakovlev (whom the author refers to as Masons) in his memoirs, written before his death, says that all his life he wanted to break the back of the communist system, imperial statehood. In fact, a member of the Politburo, an ideologue of the CPSU, declares that he has worked all his life against what he serves. But to call him a Freemason?! We have no evidence for this."

IS PUTIN A MASON? The answer, to some disappointment, is no. "Here is Berberova's archive - these are genuine documents. (download)

They list the names of Freemasons from the beginning of the 20th century - people themselves talk about this, there are witnesses. This is reality. There are materials from the investigation into the case of the Decembrists, which was conducted by Benckendorff - he fought against Masons and secret societies. Everything is proven here. According to the French Revolution, there is also a lot of evidence of Masonic conspiracies. The influence of Freemasons on the formation of the United States is not just a fact, it is the national and cultural pride of America. As for accusing our political leaders of Freemasonry, one must have grounds for this, but there are none. There are proven facts, and there is the current reality. How strong the Masons are in Russia, now it is not known for sure."

OTHER FORCES ARE OPERATING IN MODERN RUSSIA, the basis of which are the special services and world capital. But are people working in the special services members of Masonic organizations? This is the next question, however, which can be answered quite positively. They are not only members of international Freemasonry, but are sometimes also in the service of foreign intelligence services.

The book of the former CIA officer L. Gonzalez-Mata "True Masters of the World" lists the powerful of this world belonging to Masonic organizations, including CIA founder Allen Dulles, Bilderberg Club Secretary General Joseph Retinger, former President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jacques Attali, US Presidents Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George Bush, head of the Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller and many others.

In Russia, these include dozens of politicians and businessmen who belong not only to regular lodges, but also to closed clubs that belong to the so-called "white Freemasonry".

What are they all after? In words - quite noble goals. The Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France, Jean-Rebert Ragache, at a meeting with journalists in 1991, said that the Freemasons of France are striving to "lay their stone in building democracy in Eastern and Central Europe." He was concerned about "the resurgence of separatist and irredentist sentiments in Eastern Europe" and "the desire of the Church to bring about a new evangelization."

To achieve this lodge, the Grand Orient of France allocated 1.2 million francs, the Grand Lodge of France - 300 thousand francs, the Grand National Lodge of France - a set of swords, aprons and orders.

The donation, frankly, is ridiculous compared to what was presented by the Order of Malta to Potanin and Ignatiev. Therefore, there are secret items of expenditure, and other secret goals. Which? Alas, there is no definitive answer.

It is known, for example, that the Order of Malta, represented in Russia by Jacques Masson, is vitally interested in the Russian military-industrial complex.

They, these organizations, are still closed to the uninitiated. And therefore, special services, builders of the new order and ordinary swindlers will work under their "roof" for a long time to come.