- Since 1998...

- And how did your superiors - you have bosses - how did your bosses react to the appearance of this site on the Internet?

- It's just that no one had any perplexed questions, - and therefore this topic was never discussed with my church authorities.

- Your forum has existed for several years, now it is an extensive system of communication, one of the brightest thematic platforms on the Runet. From the very beginning, you appeared on the forum much less often than regulars. Do you like that the forum bears your name, how much do you consider what is happening there to be your own?

- I do not have any proprietary feelings towards this forum. I limit my participation in it for many reasons. There is such a huge amount of information, so many threads and discussions that in order to work adequately in it, you need to devote your whole life to it. In a sense, I let the forum take its course, inviting the Orthodox to organize themselves. I am ready to grant any Orthodox, theologically educated person the right to moderate. But I myself do not abuse this right, if you look at the moderation diary that is on the forum, you will see that there are practically no topics that I would delete. When the forum worked for the first year, I realized that either I read all these messages, most of which do not deserve to be read, or I continue to read those books that surround me, including the Holy Fathers. And I preferred to stay in the traditional mode of work and not become an Internet pastor.

- What is the reason for the need to introduce a moderation system? Many users were extremely dissatisfied with this.

- The Internet is like your tram, where one madman will yell and disperse all the others. Restrictions had to be imposed. For example, one person cannot open more than three topics in a row, because excessively active sectarians began to use my forum to conduct their propaganda, and this was not part of my plans.

- Do you delve into the life of the so-called "forum party", which holds regular meetings in real life, joint tea parties, hikes, pilgrimages?

-No. Of course, I can't forbid other people to communicate. But I myself was only at the first of these meetings and did not come again, primarily because I do not want to give rise to gossip about the fact that Kuraev created his own Internet sect. Recently, I had a kind of "meeting" with one of the forum participants. On Christmas night, I served in the church in Adler. And leaving the church, I saw that some guy was trying to get in, but the Cossacks wouldn't let him in. The guy was probably not very sober and strove to go to church in a jester's hat. And then he saw me and began to shout: "Father Andrei, well, you, at least tell me, why am they not letting me in? Why, well, I'm corresponding with you on the Internet!"