Serbia and Russia, the Serbian and the Russian peoples always had special fraternal relations!

Long-standing and strong bonds of love exist between the Russian and the Serbian nation, “and what’s most important, they manifest in the most direct, everyday manner, privately, in personal communication between people….The Orthodox faith, Slavic origins, and the history of Russian-Serb relations have their source in the earliest times of the Slavic Orthodox civilization.If we look back at history we can see to what degree, thanks to divine providence, the fates of our two peoples have been intertwined.Russia supported Serbia during the First World War. And when the revolution happened in Russia and when belligerent people fighting against God came to power, Serbia – that was itself struggling with the consequences of the war – received a large number of refugees from Russia and accepted them as its own people.We Orthodox people, Serbs and Russians, are called upon to, as before, stand shoulder to shoulder in this struggle for our spiritual identity, for the preservation of the Orthodox civilization, defending the God-given marriage as the union between a man and a woman, the value of human life from conception until natural death, without succumbing to false temptations of external material prosperity and without getting seduced by false ideas about human freedom and happiness…