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March 23, 2017 – The Ministry of Culture is leading an orchestrated and systematic discrimination campaign against the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). This is the view Yuriy Reshetnikov, the Chairman of the Ukrainian Department for Nationalities and Religion from 2009 to 2010. Mr. Reshetnikov gave an interview to the journal “Phrase”, and he holds a […]

March 22, 2017 – The legal trade union PRIVÈ is going to handle the legalization of the transfer of Saint Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev. According to the managing partner of the firm, Evgeny Kramarenko, “our legal firm PRIVÈ is handling the consulting, accompaniment, and judicial assistance to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate. The documents we collected have […]

February 22, 2017 – On February 22, the first trial between the Ministry of Culture and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC-MP) took place. The UOC-MP sued the Ministry of Culture over refusal to accept and register the internal charters of the dioceses and monasteries. The trial took place because the Ministry refused to register the charters over a course of […]

March 22, 2017 – In the city of Khmelnitsky, the deputies rejected the provocation of the “Svoboda” party – its representatives tried to vote in the “package” for “the cancellation of registration of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine,” reports the Information and Education Department of the UOC (Ukrainian Orthodox Church) citing the YouTube channel of the Khmelnitsky City […]