Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/commentshttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifRISUhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments16984http://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/42846/Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:23:00 +0200Pope John Paul II taught us an important lesson: he came to Ukraine not to argue with Russia but to raise the significance of the Kyivan Christian traditionMoscow voiced its categorical protests, the Orthodox hierarchy in Kyiv advised against it, and the Roman Curia and the entire Catholic world warned against “unwisely upsetting Moscow.” One had to be very strong to go against this critical “Gulf Stream.”Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/asorokowski_column/42823/Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:39:02 +0200MAECENAS OR MAFIOSO?The recent announcement of a substantial gift by Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) has aroused a lively discussion on the internet in both Ukraine and the diaspora.Andrew Sorokowski's columnhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/42113/Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:24:14 +0200Expert: Meeting of president with religious leaders released tension in relationsPreliminary Conclusions from President Yanukovych’s meeting with the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious OrganizationsCommentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/40721/Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:52:28 +0200Service of the Patriarch is the best guidelineI remember the meeting with His Beatitude last summer. Several other experts and I then on his invitation discussed ways of overcoming the system crises in the Ukrainian education.Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/40589/Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:52:52 +0200Patriarch Lubomyr: State Wants to Control Church As It Is Afraid of ItCommentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/39855/Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:42:05 +0200Will the “Immovable wall” Collapse Upon Ukraine?Expert opinion of Professor O. Sagan regarding a possible change of the status of the Sophia of Kyiv.Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/39742/Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:34:12 +0200Russian Model of Church-State Relations in Terms of Having One Privileged Church Is Being Duplicated in UkraineCommentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/39545/Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:01:10 +0200What 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.Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/39241/Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:32:01 +0200Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak: Historical Memory Needs to Be AccountableThe 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.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/38780/Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:19:56 +0200Expert: Russian World Doctrine Not About Christ, Principles of Orthodoxy, Salvation or Spiritual Growth, but GeopoliticsIndisputably, 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.Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/38322/Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:32:37 +0200On the Difficulties of the Dialogue between the Orthodox and Catholics: The Inconsolable Results of the Vienna DiscussionsThe 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.Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/37414/Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:00:56 +0200Historian Oleh Turiy: In Ukraine a problem exists in the nature of what we call historical memoryA 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.Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/36750/Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:32:15 +0200"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 AspectCommentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/30884/Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:52:00 +0200Who Did Patriarch Kirill Come to Visit in Ukraine?Bishop IHOR (Isichenko), Archbishop of Kharkiv and Poltava of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC)Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/29071/Fri, 15 May 2009 14:42:00 +0200"I personally bow before Hetman Ivan Mazepa, and regard him as one of the most significant figures in Ukraine’s history"Archbishop SOFRONII (Dmytruk) of Cherkasy and Kaniv of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow PatriarchateCommentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/22509/Thu, 29 May 2008 12:17:00 +0200“In regard to the last mayoral elections of Kyiv, when we speak about the victory of one candidate or another, it is very conditional.”EVSTRATIJ (Zorya), bishop of Vasyliv, vicar of the Kyiv Eparchy, head of the Information-Publishing Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan PatriarchateCommentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/21885/Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:46:00 +0200Parliamentary Head’s Appearance at PACE: Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia in UkraineMaxim VASYN, executive director of the Institute of Religious Freedom (Kyiv), L.L.B.Commentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/21157/Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:57:00 +0200It is not the new religious trends that are booming but the journalists trying to write about themLiudmyla FYLYPOVYCH, head of the Department of Religious Processes in Ukraine at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of UkraineCommentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/20103/Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:41:00 +0200Church-state relations: What the new year has in store for us.Volodymyr MARUSHCHENKO, national deputy of Ukraine, senior assistant head of the Christian Democratic UnionCommentshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/comments/18765/Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:11:00 +0200A few reflections on the “religious” paragraph of the “Agreement of formation of democratic forces in the Parliament of Ukraine of the 6th convocation”Hennadii DRUZENKO, member of the Scholarly-Expert Council attached to the Parliamentary Committee on Matters of European IntegrationComments