http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandalshttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals16984http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/48215/Thu, 24 May 2012 10:41:59 +0300In the village of Riasnopil of Berezovka District of Odesa Region, a native of Abkhazia attacked a UGCC chapel, which is being built by local residents, with an axe and broke its windows.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/47990/Thu, 03 May 2012 11:16:05 +0300On May 1, in the Pochayiv Monastery, one of the priests together with a guard prohibited a cameraman of Brody Television to video a pilgrimage in which he participated and confiscated his video camera by force.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/47824/Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:55:12 +0300Pastor of the Embassy of God, Sunday Adelaja, who is accused of organizing a criminal group, is not permitted to leave Ukraine before the completion of the investigation in the matter of Kings Capital Ltd.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/47712/Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:07:01 +0300Today, five active members of FEMEN climbed the belfry of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv and hung there a seven-meter-long banner with the word "STOP" to the sound of the bells.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/47706/Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:02:05 +0300Pastor Sunday Adelaja of the “Embassy of God,” who was thought to be missing, has been found in Kyiv.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/47659/Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:17:03 +0300A priest from Lviv Region who refused to bury a man for “debts” to the Church has been punished. RISU learnt from the Stryi Eparchial Department of UGCC that Fr. Stepam Palii was dismissed from the services in the parish for the period of one month.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/47542/Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:21:10 +0300The pastor of the Embassy of God, Sunday Adelaja, who is on a recognizance not to leave, has disappeared.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/47374/Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:34:03 +0300The head of the “Soim of the Carpathian Rusyns,” a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Dymytrii Sydor was sentenced to three years of imprisonment with a respite of two years for the encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/46497/Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:47:01 +0300Experts associate the large-scale replacement of the directors of the most significant cultural institutions with the efforts of the authorities to employ ex-officials who were made redundant due to the reduction of the top section of officials.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/46271/Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:55:01 +0300A 47-year-old priest, Hryhorii (Hryshchenko), caused an accident as he hurried to a service driving his expensive Mercedes.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/46214/Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:11:10 +0300Ternopil police jointly with their colleagues from the Kyiv, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr regions arrested a criminal group of residents of Kyiv, Odesa and Moldova, who stole ancient icons from the churches of Ukraine.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/land_and_property_problems/45996/Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:12:01 +0300The Economic Court of Kyiv prohibited the construction of a dwelling complex at Honchara Street near the National Reserve Sophia of Kyiv.Land and property problemshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/45995/Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:46:00 +0300The head of the religious group Pidhirtsi Fathers, Antonin (Ilia) Dognal, who is a citizen of the Czech Republic, has been refused extension of visa to stay in Ukraine.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/45505/Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:58:00 +0300Two churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in the village of Holoby of Kovel District and in the village of Ludyn of Volodymyr Volynskyi District of Volyn Oblast were attacked by unknown persons on November 17.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/44846/Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:43:06 +0300The Ternopil Region Association of Churches of Evangelical Faith (ACEF) approached Public Prosecutor of Ternopil Oblast Ivan Melnychuk and Commissioner on Human Rights in the Supreme Council of Ukraine Nina Karpachova with a request to interfere in the matter of a cruel beating by Ternopil police of the youth leader of the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith in the town of Zbarazh.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/44824/Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:36:08 +0300Pechersk District Court of Kyiv sentenced former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to 7 years of imprisonment. The decision was announced by Judge Rodion Kireyev.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/protests/44508/Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:34:37 +0300The local branch of the nationalist organization Svoboda of the eastern Ukrainian region of Cherkasy made a statement as to the authorities' lack of action to prevent aggression of Chasidim in Uman and announced the beginning of a campaign Uman without Chasidim.Protests and conflictshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/44105/Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:16:00 +0300Unian held a press conference today titled “Violations of human rights in the area of criminal justice.” Using the example of the so-called Ponomarivs case, the participants discussed systematic violations in the Ukrainian justice system and the methods used by the police during the pre-trial investigation to break a person and force him to sign involuntary admissions with regard to crimes he did not commit.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/44088/Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:21:00 +0300A 39-year-old resident of the Poltava Oblast stole ancient church books, icons, cash from safes and money boxes from churches in the villages of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast from April 2009 to May 2010.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/43953/Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:27:34 +0300In the early morning hours of 15 August, an intruder broke into the parish Church and desecrated the Holy Altar, Tabernacle, Iconography and the entire altar and sacristy area.Scandals, crime