http://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytichttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic16984http://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/48079/Fri, 11 May 2012 15:27:42 +0300Fr. Omelian Kovch died 25 March 1944, three months before the liberation of the Majdanek camp 23 July 1944. Some 80,000 people were killed in the camp over 34 months including about 59,000 Jews. Blessed Omelian Kovch was for many prisoners their pastor. Today he bears the title “Pastor of Majdanek.” 9 January 1999 The Jewish Council of Ukraine proclaimed him a “Righteous of Ukraine.”Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/47396/Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:01:41 +0300Among the many forms of public discourse in the U.S. is the bumper sticker. In a mobile society rich in automobiles but poor in opportunities for reasoned discussion, one way that people express their views on politics, religion, and even philosophy is the message or symbol that they display on the backs of their cars, on or near the rear bumper.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/46917/Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:45:34 +0300The year 2011 in Ukraine was rich in events in the area of church-state relations. In the development of relations between the state and the denominations, this year was dynamic, complex, somewhat contradictory, but ultimately positive.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/46805/Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:19:09 +0300The decision of the Holy Synod of January 28, 2012, was reminiscent of two historical events of 1991 and 1992, namely, the attempt to seize power in the USSR by the State Committee on the State of Emergency (in Russian GKCP) and the removal of Patriarch Mstyslav from power in the UAOC. With the GKCP of Synodal “putschers” unites the way to get power – conspiracy and usurpation of power in a pseudo-legal way. The events of the church “June Coup” in 1992 are similar to the events of the Synodal “majority” in their model.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/studios/studies_of_religions/45605/Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:09:40 +0300A Review of Trends in Contemporary Islam in the CrimeaReligious studieshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/44867/Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:51:11 +0300The Eastern Churches bear an aspect of the Christian faith that is profound and astonishingly rich, with the power to amaze a culture that wrongly presumes it has seen it all. I also believe our culture is in urgent need of the vast treasure and deep beauty that have been entrusted to these Churches.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/43582/Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:51:23 +0300Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/42562/Fri, 27 May 2011 19:03:31 +0300The example of many post-Soviet countries shows that the adoption of a new law on religious freedom poses considerable risks to religious freedom.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/40964/Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:49:31 +0300The beginning of the third millennium of the year of our Lord (like the beginning of the second millennium) was preceded by the failure of doomsday prophecies that on the eve of 2000 proliferated at an impressive rate.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/39694/Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:13:46 +0300The year 2010 in Ukraine was filled with social and political events: presidential elections, the formation of a new government, new priorities in foreign and domestic policy, disorientation of the opposition, human rights and student protests, changes in the justice system, the return to Ukraine's 1996 Constitution, local elections, small- and medium-sized businesses’s protests against the Tax Code, new government legislative initiatives, administrative reform, and more.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/39595/Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:12:56 +0300Favoritism is also quite simply morally unacceptable. Any Church or religion which accepts material and other benefits from the State, becoming thus complicit in the violation of others’ constitutional rights, would be well advised to remember Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/36478/Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:31:44 +0300Ukraine is one of the world leaders to respect religious freedom, said Yurii Reshetnikov, the Chairman (now former Chairman) of the State Committee on Nationalities and Religions at the beginning of this year.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/34638/Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:54:09 +0300If to characterize the situation of Orthodoxy in Ukraine, then it can be expressed with the help of the phrase: “Today everything is possible.” This expression also needs to be explained.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/33613/Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:21:30 +0300To research the dynamics of inter-confessional relations in Ukraine observers increasingly scrutinize the situation with the help of certain classifications.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/31083/Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:58:00 +0300Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/30951/Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:46:00 +0300Most commentators and experts agree that Patriarch Kirill’s first visit to Ukraine carried an obvious political character.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/28942/Thu, 07 May 2009 15:16:00 +0300Recently, someone who is sincerely committed to the ideals of religious freedom was appointed head of the State Department of Ukraine on Matters of State-Confessional Relations for the first time in the history of the Department. But will the new director, Yurii Reshetnikov, be able to uproot the supervisory-repressive spirit of this body, which can be traced back to the position of the Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod at the time of the Russian Empire, and which is a direct successor of the Council on Matters of the Russian Orthodox Church (later, Council on Matters of Religions attached to the Council of Ministers of USSR) that was established by the general of MGB, Georgii Karpov?Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/28652/Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:15:00 +0300The reality is that the society in which we live is chock-full of stereotypes – ethnic, political, gender, age, cultural, linguistic, religious – that prevent collective as well as individual subjects from acquiring new identities.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/28465/Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:23:00 +0300The period from Ukraine’s independence to the present is characterized by a booming development in the institutional structure of various religious trends.Analysishttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/analytic/24813/Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:53:00 +0300Liudmyla FYLYPOVYCH, doctor of philosophy, head of the Department of Religious Processes in Ukraine at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of UkraineAnalysis