Mikhail Morosov

Mikhail Fyodorovich Morozov (born 1955)[1] is the director of Durakovo's “Russian/American Center for Treatment of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts”,[2] established using his own funds.

Morozov is an alcoholic. He was marked at the age of 24 by the trauma from witnessing the death of his uncle, who drowned in the Moscow River while swimming drunk.[3]

Once visiting a friend in early recovery in 1993, Mr. Morozov drove through the fields of Durakovo and found an Orthodox shrine, its cupola smashed and filled with a stork’s nest. He took it as a sign from God, built a small cottage, and launched a business in a nearby town, building a factory to mass-produce Russian Orthodox icons. As he brought friends and acquaintances with alcohol problems to the cottage for increasingly longer visits, he transformed the place into an informal treatment center. Rumors spread, he says. That’s how people learned about us.[4]

Documentary

In 2008, Nino Kirtadze made a documentary film entitled For God, Tsar and the Fatherland (alternative title: Durakovo: Village of Fools), regarding the rehabilitation centre in Đurakovo. Mr. Morozov was a central figure of the film, being suggested his authoritarian views of power, his sympathy towards president Vladimir Putin, his anti-democracy conceptions and profound mistrust towards the West.[5]

gollark: > The relatively small, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.
gollark: > The Free Land of Anrak is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.677 billion Anrakians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.
gollark: I have Notelia, my main one which also seems to have gone socialist because the game seems to like that for some reason, Anrak, where there is literally no law enforcement (but government-provided education if I remember right), and Doemokria, where I do random testing.
gollark: I mostly just answer the issues occasionally on my three nations.
gollark: Also, I use ly (it's in the AUR) as my, er, desktop manager. It's pretty nice, has a neat TUI design.

References
  1. "Mr. Morosov, 47, was introduced to twelve-step based recovery". The Baltimore Sun. 2002.
  2. Peterson, Scott (2 May 2005). "Where Russians go to dry out". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 2 May 2005.
  3. "Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Russia's deepening malaise". BBC News. 2002-08-28. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
  4. Emery, Jane L. (2003). "Trends in Russian Addiction Treatment: Feature Articles - Treatment Strategies or Protocols". Counselor, The Magazine for Addiction Professionals. 4 (3): 34–39. Archived from the original on 2012-08-21.
  5. "Why Democracy: Russia's Village of Fools - BBC 4". Video.google.com. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
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