29 April 2011, 17:24 | Comments | 

Expert: Meeting of president with religious leaders released tension in relations

Preliminary Conclusions from President Yanukovych’s meeting with the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations

9 February 2011, 09:52 | Comments | 

Patriarch Lubomyr: State Wants to Control Church As It Is Afraid of It

28 December 2010, 09:42 | Comments | 

Will the “Immovable wall” Collapse Upon Ukraine?

Expert opinion of Professor O. Sagan regarding a possible change of the status of the Sophia of Kyiv.

21 December 2010, 11:34 | Comments | 

Russian Model of Church-State Relations in Terms of Having One Privileged Church Is Being Duplicated in Ukraine

10 December 2010, 12:01 | Comments | 

What Changes in the Freedom of Conscience May Follow the President’s Liquidation of the State Committee on Nationalities and Religions?

In Decree No. 1085/2010 from December 9, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych liquidated many well-known ministries and their central executive bodies, in particular the State Committee on Nationalities and Religions, most of whose powers were transferred to the reorganized Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.

25 November 2010, 17:32 | Interview | 

Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak: Historical Memory Needs to Be Accountable

The memory about the Holodomor unites Ukrainians. This is not a hypothesis or an assumption but a conclusion of sociological research that shows that in the last three years a new phenomenon has appeared in the Ukrainian society—Ukrainians have come to believe that the famine was a genocide.

5 November 2010, 10:19 | Comments | 

Expert: Russian World Doctrine Not About Christ, Principles of Orthodoxy, Salvation or Spiritual Growth, but Geopolitics

Indisputably, the details of this doctrine, which appear more and more clear, are capable of causing the turmoil of theologians and the indulgent smiles of experts in humanities and social sciences. The doctrine can be thoroughly criticized, and in the year since the last council, it has been done repeatedly.

8 October 2010, 16:32 | Comments | 

On the Difficulties of the Dialogue between the Orthodox and Catholics: The Inconsolable Results of the Vienna Discussions

The Orthodox always acknowledged that in the first millennia Rome had primacy, and, of course, agreed that Peter occupied a special place among the apostles. But Rome was more likely linked with historical circumstances in the first place, than with the Chair of Saint Peter.

21 August 2010, 15:00 | Comments | 

Historian Oleh Turiy: In Ukraine a problem exists in the nature of what we call historical memory

A Ukrainian delegation took part in a European workshop on reconciliation of events in European history. Oleh Turiy shared with RISU his thoughts on this event and, in particular, on historical memory in Ukraine.

26 Jule 2010, 16:32 | Comments | 

"For the time being there remains the vital question of conducting in Ukraine one indiscriminate policy in the sphere of religion and on the attitude to various churches, as is defined by the current legislation"

Commentary on the Law of Ukraine On the Foundations of Domestic and Foreign Policy: the Religious Aspect