http://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview16984http://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/46695/Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:24:05 +0200About the financial sustainability and other challenges of theological institutions we speak with the dean of Leadership Development of the Overseas Council Scott Cunningham.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/46441/Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:36:05 +0200The new Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson has been in our country for only a few months. He presented his credentials to the President of Ukraine in November 2011. Our publication spoke with the Vatican ambassador about his impressions of Ukraine and local church life.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/46060/Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:51:39 +0200Private Secretary of the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on the Patriarch and the current religious situationSociety-digesthttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/45951/Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:40:18 +0200This time around the guest of My Word is press secretary for the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Heorhii KOVALENKO. Although the column is meant for interconfessional interviews, covering a range of issues important for the believers of all churches (and even non-believers), politics also was present here to a certain extent.Society-digesthttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/45086/Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:11:01 +0200Charley Warner was one of the first teachers at the Odesa theological seminary. He lived in Ukraine till 1999 and then moved to Austria. During the EAAA conference “10 Years of Theological Education” RISU was able to ask him a few questions about changes in Protestant theological education, developments in modern Protestant theology, and his mission.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/44928/Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:11:41 +0200Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk discusses his role in fostering ‘unity of action.’Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/43919/Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:09:10 +0200This interview is shortened version of the talk with Sara Sievers as part of the project The collapse of the Soviet Union: the Oral History of Independent Ukraine.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/43849/Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:07:33 +0200These are the topics of RISU’s conversation with a man who, according to opinion polls, is considered to be the indisputable moral authority for Ukrainians of different social strata and cultural traditions, of different denominations and faiths – the primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) from 2001-2010, Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar).Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/43725/Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:05:58 +0200The Day asked the Archbishop Mechyslav MOKSHYTSKY to share his memories about John Paul II and discussed the religious situation in Ukraine.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/43485/Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:30:03 +0200We talk about the religion in Crimean Tatars’ life with the Chairman of Mejlis, MP of Ukraine, famous dissident and public figure Mustafa JEMILEV. Recently he was awarded “Light of Justice” Prize for moral, spiritual and ethic leadership.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/43376/Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:03:22 +0200The following is an interview with head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), about his first one hundred days as primate, about his view on the identity of the UGCC, what the patriarchate means to church, how he sees the relations with the authorities and other churches, and more.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/42698/Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:00:29 +0200Less than half of the press service for the visit of His Holiness John Paul ІІ to Ukraine in 2001, working in Lviv, were professional journalists. Meanwhile their word was highly praised by foreign journalists who had covered many apostolic visits. Creation and maintenance of the official visit’s website was supervised by Ihor BALYNSKYI, political scientist, head of the Journalism Department of the Humanities Faculty at UCU, Docent of the Journalism Faculty at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/41903/Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:25:45 +0200The Group of Dognal has been active in Ukraine for several years. UGCC has made some steps to let the public know about its activity. As we know, the leaders of the group are foreigners who have stayed in Ukraine contrary to the visa system for a few years.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/41546/Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:10:44 +0200Newly elected and enthroned Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) gave his first press-conference to Ukrainian journalists in Kyiv before his trip to Holy See and audience of Pope Benedict XVI.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/40635/Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:45:03 +0200During the 10 years of his ministry as patriarch of the UGCC, His Beatitude Lubomyr was for all Ukrainian Greek Catholics, and for others as well, a moral authority and example of how one must live in Christ. In an interview with Bishop Benedict Aleksiychuk, auxiliary bishop of the Lviv Archeparchy of the UGCC, we learn more about the basis for his pastoral charisma and about his influence on the spiritual life of Ukrainians.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/39623/Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:54:02 +0200Interview with the senior priest of the Church of St. Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Paris with Fr. Mykhailo ROMANIUK about his parish and Ukrainians in France.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/39388/Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:22:26 +0200I would divide my parishioners into three groups. The first one is Ukrainians of German ancestry who live in Kyiv and its surrounding cities such as Irpin, Bucha, Klavdiyeve. Some of them speak German, especially the older generation. The second group includes people from Germany and German-speaking countries who live for a number of years in Kyiv. In general, these are people from the embassy or business sector, and those who married local residents. All of them are also parishioners at our church.Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/39241/Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:32:01 +0200The 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/interview/38810/Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:01:19 +0200Interviewhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/interview/38655/Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:13:02 +0200To learn about the main mission of the pilgrimage of the migrant families that is taking place for the first time in Lviv, its main goals, as well as about the new challenges of migration and how the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church reacts to them, we spoke with its organizer Father Vasyl Potochniak, the executive secretary of the Pastoral and Missionary Division of the UGCC, a priest who has a lot of personal experience ministering for Ukrainian migrants abroad.Interview