<rss version="2.0" ><channel><title>Scandals, crime</title><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals</link><image><url>http://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gif</url><title>RISU</title><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals</link><width>169</width><height>84</height></image><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/46497/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:47:01 +0200</pubDate><title>Experts Comment on Replacement of Heads of Most Significant Cultural Institutions</title><description>Experts 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.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/46271/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:55:01 +0200</pubDate><title>Priest in Mercedes Rams Mail Car in Odesa</title><description>A 47-year-old priest, Hryhorii (Hryshchenko), caused an accident as he hurried to a service driving his expensive Mercedes.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/46214/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:11:10 +0200</pubDate><title>Criminal Group Stealing Icons in Four Regions of Ukraine Arrested</title><description>Ternopil 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.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/land_and_property_problems/45996/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:12:01 +0200</pubDate><title>Court Prohibits Construction of Residential Houses Near Sophia of Kyiv</title><description>The Economic Court of Kyiv prohibited the construction of a dwelling complex at Honchara Street near the National Reserve Sophia of Kyiv.</description><category>Land and property problems</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/45995/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:46:00 +0200</pubDate><title>Antonin Dognal Refused Visa Extension to Stay in Ukraine</title><description>The 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.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/45505/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:58:00 +0200</pubDate><title>Two Orthodox Churches Robbed in Volyn on Same Day</title><description>Two 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.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/44846/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:43:06 +0200</pubDate><title>Pentecostals in Ternopil Complain to Public Prosecutor About Actions of Police</title><description>The 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.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/44824/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:36:08 +0200</pubDate><title>Judge Kireyev Does Not Comply With Requests of Heads of Churches Regarding Former Prime Minister Tymoshenko</title><description>Pechersk District Court of Kyiv sentenced former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to 7 years of imprisonment. The decision was announced by Judge Rodion Kireyev.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/protests/44508/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:34:37 +0200</pubDate><title>Cherkasy Branch of Svoboda Announces Campaign Uman Without Chasidim</title><description>The 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.</description><category>Protests and conflicts</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/44105/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><title>Human Rights Campaigners: Innocent People Are Accused in Case of Explosion in Zaporizhia Church</title><description>Unian 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.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/44088/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:21:00 +0200</pubDate><title>Man Who Robbed Churches in Western Ukraine Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison</title><description>A 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.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/43953/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:27:34 +0200</pubDate><title>St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in USA Vandalized</title><description>In 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.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/43671/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:31:27 +0200</pubDate><title>Priest on Hunger Strike Faints in Front of Mariupol City Hall</title><description>A parish priest of a community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Fr. Volodymyr Koskin, on August 1 lost consciousness in front of the City Council of Mariupol of the Donetsk Oblast.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/43440/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:54:24 +0200</pubDate><title>Sect leader Antonin Dognal convicted of petty hooliganism</title><description>On July 20, 2011, in the Shevchenko district court of Lviv, a civil case was opened against Czech citizen Antonin Dognal for his resistance during detention and for inflicting injuries on a woman.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/43416/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:39:08 +0200</pubDate><title>Sect leader Antonin Dognal detained in Lviv for striking woman</title><description>An incident occurred late last night on the premises of the former chapel of the Redemptorist Fathers on Pluhova Street in Lviv. A citizen of the Czech Republic and leader of the illegal religious group Antonin Dognal struck the head of a local resident, and as a result she received a concussion and an injured jaw. He was then detained by the police.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/43121/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:44:37 +0200</pubDate><title>Ukrainian priest killed himself</title><description>A priest was found hanged on the porch of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Church in the town of Malaya Berezanka in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, KyivPost reports.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/42902/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:31:10 +0200</pubDate><title>Ukrainian Interior Ministry: Sacristans blast Zaporizhia church to avenge greedy superior</title><description>The summer 2010 explosion in a Zaporizhia church was an act of sacristans' revenge upon the church superior who had accused them of stealing church money, head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Main Investigative Department Vasily Farinnik said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda in the Ukraine newspaper published on Thursday.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/42341/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 16:45:41 +0200</pubDate><title>Mosque Set On Fire in Kharkiv</title><description>Unknown persons in Kharkiv set fire to the door of the mosque. So reported The Center of Public Relations of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kharkiv Region to unian.net.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/40054/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:34:33 +0200</pubDate><title>Pastor in Kaniv 'swindled' 139,000 US dollars out of parishioner</title><description>A pastor in Kaniv &quot;swindled&quot; 139,000 US dollars out of a parishioner. According to the police, using psychological influence on the parishioners, the 42-year-old pastor attracted to his “shrine” in Kaniv well-to-do people who could constantly donate.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item><item><link>http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/39858/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:03:59 +0200</pubDate><title>Fire in Unfinished Mosque Near Simferopol Believed to Be Arson</title><description>The Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Crimea believes the fire in an unfinished mosque in a village near Simferopol was an act of arson and estimates 100 thousand UAH in direct losses from the fire.</description><category>Scandals, crime</category></item></channel></rss>
