Currently, many local sects have become active in post-soviet space, said professor Alexander Dovrkin, Russian-American anti-cult activist and president of the Russian Association of Centers for Religious and Sectarian Studies.
“Recently I’ve been receiving many telephone calls, with people requesting to explain the situation. Destructive sects pose a 4-level threat, affecting the person, the family, the society and the state,” the professor said at Yerevan-Moscow-Tbilisi-Kyiv TV spacebridge on the sects in post-soviet space.
As Alexander Amaryan, the head of the Center for Aid and Rehabilitation to the Victims of Destructive Cults noted, the totalitarian sects’ main goal in money and power. “Sectarians use methods practices by special services, ranging from hypnosis to technical means.”
“Armenia is facing a new tendency – all totalitarian sects are gathering under the same roof,” the expert noted.
