Veles circle

The association venerates Veles,[1][2] the Slavic god of wisdom, and regards Rod[1] as the supreme deity, aligning itself with the Rodnovery tradition.

[3][4] The association has communities in several Russian cities, including Moscow, Obninsk, Kostroma, Ryazan, Perm, Kazan, and Komsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as in Ukraine and Belarus.

The Appeal also emphasized tolerance for diversity, allowing terms such as "Paganism," "Rodnovery," "Vedism," "Ynglism," and "Orthodoxy" to be used to describe their faith.

Veleslav (Ilya Cherkasov), the head of the association and a volhv, is one of the most renowned figures in Slavic neo-paganism in Russia.

[7] In November 1993, the Obninsk Vedic community "Traiana", led by the Volhv Bogumil (D. A. Gasanov), formed the Circle of Veles as part of the Union of the Veneds [ru].

This collaboration led to their merger into the Rodoliubie – Kolyada Vyatichi Community Accord in 2001, though the groups eventually parted ways.

[1] The Appeal advocated for the veche principle of leadership, describing the pagan community as a apolitical organization, while retaining control over ideological questions.

It emphasized tolerance for diversity, allowing terms such as "Paganism," "Rodnovery," "Vedism," "Ynglism," and "Orthodoxy" to describe their faith.

A. Rybakov, whose controversial mythological constructions many Rodnovers use as a source, Veleslav published a brochure dedicated to "the revival of the original Russian-Slavic Rodnovery".

[13] In August 2008, after an act of vandalism at one of the temples, four associations, the "Union of Slavic Communities of Slavic Native Faith" (SSO SRV), "Circle of Pagan Tradition" (KJT), "Veles Circle", and "Schoron ezh Sloven [ru]", began to unite by creating an Advisory Council.

The agreement also rejected theories in the fields of language, speech, and traditional thinking proposed by N. N. Vashkevich, G. S. Grinevich, M. N. Zadornov, A. Y. Khinevich, V. A. Chudinov, as well as historical by Yuri D. Petukhov, A. Tyunyaev, A. T. Fomenko, among their successors, followers and their like".

In December 2013, the SRV, Veles Circle, and KJT condemned Vladimir Kurovsky, leader of the "Ukrainian religious sect" Rodovoye Ognische Slavyanskoe Rodnoi Vera (Slavic Native Faith).

[16] On August 27, 2016, in Kolomenskoye, there was a meeting of eighteen volhvs and priests from various neo-pagan associations: "Pagan Federation International" (PFI), SSO SRV, KJT, "Veles Circle", "Moscow Wiccan House", the Olympic Religious League "Liberation of Mind", the almanac "Saga" ("project of the Union of Free Asatru"), "Assembly of Slavic Communities Native Land".

It is proposed "to create a Commonwealth of associations (followers of the Natural Faith) in Russia, Belarus and other countries, united by a common historical and cultural space.

Rite of initiation (Veleslav, Bogumil, etc.)