Roman Anatolyevich Silantyev (Russian: Роман Анатольевич Силантьев, 15 September 1977, Moscow[1]) is a Russian sociologist Islamic expert, former executive secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia (IIRC), director of the human rights center of the World Russian People's Council, and former staff member of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations.
In 2005 Silantyev was relieved from his IIRC posts after the controversial reception of his book A Modern History of the Islamic Community in Russia, criticized both from the Muslim and Eastern Orthodox sides.[2]
In 2007 Silantyev published another book A Modern History of Islam in Russia.
In 2008 Silantyev published Islam in Russia Today.
In 2018 Silantyev presented "destructology", claimed to be a scientific discipline.[3] According to his basic article, "destructology" was "designed to provide serious counteraction to threats to Russia's national security."[4]
In 2023 Silantyev committed the "destructological expertise", which was the basis for the arrest and pre-trial detention of the theatre director Evgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk. A group of lead Russian scientists published a letter, which states that the proposed by Silantyev "destructology" has features of pseudoscience and cannot be used in forensic expertise.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Познакомьтесь с Романом Силантьевым. Именно он нашел "оправдание терроризма" в спектакле | "Эксперт" обвиняет Украину в самоубийствах российских подростков и читает лекции в ФСБ" [Meet Roman Silantyev. He found "justification of terrorism" in [Berkovich's] stage performance | The "expert" blames Ukraine for the suicides of Russian youth and gives lessons to the FSB]. Meduza (in Russian). 5 May 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ "Statement by the Orthodox public on Silantyev's book" Archived May 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ В Москве презентовали новую науку "деструктологию"
- ^ Силантьев Р. А. (2018). "О некоторых теоретических обоснованиях деструктологии как новой научной дисциплины" (2 (791)) (Вестник МГЛУ. Гуманитарные науки. ed.): 262–270.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Russian scientists against misconduct in forensic humanities and legitimation of pseudoscience"
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