Expert thought
2 January 2020, 15:59 | Analysis |
Ukrainian Orthodox Church 2019 – results of the year
The past year has highlighted two main areas of development. First, it is the recognition of the OCU, actual first, by virtue of concelebration of individual clergymen, and further at the level of Synodal decisions and concelebration of the Primates. Secondly, the transformation of the ROC into a mono-national church
13 September 2019, 14:53 | Open theme |
Ukrainian autocephaly. After one year
All this past year the CEMES foundation worked on a scholarly project, which examined the Ukrainian crisis from a theological, historical and canonical perspective, always in relation to the triptych: Primacy-Conciliarity-Autocephaly.
Religious Studies
22 November 2018, 14:51 | Religious studies |
In the context of recent events in the Orthodox world, disputes over the boundaries of church institutions often arise between the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Kyiv and Moscow. Ukraine accuses Russia of misappropriating the territory of the Kyiv Metropolis.
25 September 2018, 14:21 | Religious studies |
A Different Approach to the Ecclesiastical Discussion about Ukraine
The first question that arises concerning Ukraine is this: with what right and based on which holy canons, does Russia today claim the ecclesiastical and administrative dependency of the Metropolis of Kyiv?
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Krym
15 February 2020, 14:26 | Orthodox Church of Ukraine |
On February 14, Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and all Ukraine held a meeting with the permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the occupied Crimea, Anton Korynevych, the press service of the OCU reports.
22 January 2020, 10:37 | Freedom of Conscience |
The Pro-Russian TV channel "Millet", created by the Russian government for the Crimean Tatar audience, summing up the results of 2019, said that over the past year for the Muslims of the Crimea, the authorities of the annexed Peninsula have done a lot of useful things, Radio Liberty reports.
16 January 2020, 10:11 | Freedom of Conscience |
A case against Imam for “illegal missionary activity” brought in Crimea
In Crimea, the Prosecutor's Office has instituted a second administrative case for allegedly conducting "illegal missionary activity".
3 January 2020, 11:49 | International relations |
OCU wants the oppression of the Ukrainian Church in Crimea brought up in Minsk
The OCU wants representatives of Ukraine to discuss the issues of oppression of the Ukrainian Church in annexed Crimea at the talks of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk.
3 January 2020, 10:03 | Orthodox Church of Ukraine |
Metropolitan Epifaniy compares oppression of the Ukrainian Church in Crimea to Stalin’s times
Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and all Ukraine believes that the Russian government of the Crimea is trying to completely oust the Ukrainian Church and compares the situation on the peninsula with "Stalin's times". He said this in the Radio Liberty program "Saturday Interview", according to the website Krym.Realii.
17 December 2019, 13:31 | Freedom of Conscience |
UN General Assembly presents the problem of human rights in annexed Crimea
The Minister of Veterans Affairs, Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs of Ukraine, Oksana Kolyada, spoke about the problems with human rights in annexed Crimea at the UN General Assembly on December 16.
14 November 2019, 11:01 | International relations |
All materials on Crimeans as part of the Russian "Cases of Hizb ut-Tahrir" were transferred to the international courts, the Deputy permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the ARC, Tamila Tasheva reported in live braodcast of Krym.Realii radio, the Radio Liberty Project.
2 November 2019, 12:08 | Religion and policy |
Occupation authorities of Crimea set to demolish a church of OCU in Yevpatoria
Archbishop Klyment says the OCU has received a subpoena for November 6 in the city court.
26 October 2019, 19:51 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Occupiers in Crimea accuse Imam Bekirov of illegal missionary activity
In the occupied Crimea, the staff of the "Prosecutor's office" and the Center for Combating Extremism came to the mosque of Zarechnoye village of Simferopol district during prayer and tried to take an explanation from Asan Bekirov, who preached a sermon, suspecting him of illegal missionary activity.
20 October 2019, 11:40 | Religion and policy |
Crimean defendants in "Hizb ut-Tahrir case" might be committed to a psychiatric hospital
Russian investigators want to arrange an examination of the defendants in the second Simferopol "case of Hizb ut-Tahrir" in a psychiatric hospital, Eden Semedlyaev, the lawyer of Remzi Bekirov told Krym.Realii
1 October 2019, 09:52 | Religion and culture |
UNESKO alleges that situation in Crimea has deteriorated
UNESCO has published a new report of the Director-General of the organization on the situation in Russia-annexed Crimea in the fields of education, science, culture, dissemination of information and the functioning of the media. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the document states the further deterioration of the situation on the peninsula in all the UNESCO competence areas.
26 September 2019, 11:12 | Religion and culture |
Russia is barbarically vandalizing UNESCO world heritage site at Chersonese in occupied Crimea
Russia has dangerous construction plans for a site in occupied Crimea on the UNESCO World Heritage List, with one of the reasons linked with Moscow’s attempts to rewrite its own history.
21 September 2019, 11:04 | Land and property problems |
UN demands not to evict Crimean Diocese of OCU from the Cathedral
The UN Human Rights Committee once again demands from Russia not to evict the Crimean Diocese of the OCU from the Cathedral. This was reported on Facebook by Serhiy Zayets, a representative of the parishioners, an expert of the Regional Human Rights Center, Telegraph reports.
18 September 2019, 11:36 | Land and property problems |
Archbishop Klyment of OCU appeals against eviction from the temple
Archbishop Klyment of the Crimean diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine lodged an appeal to the court in Russian Kaluga against the decision of the Russian 21st Arbitration Court of Appeal in Sevastopol, which upheld the decision to terminate the lease of the premises of the Cathedral of the OCU in Simferopol. Archbishop Klyment told it to Krym.Realii on September 17.
13 September 2019, 10:00 | Church-state relations |
Occupants plant weapons and religious literature on Crimean Tatars - human rights activist
In Russia-occupied Crimea, religious literature is planted on Crimean Tatars during the searches, which allegedly attests to their affiliation with Hizb ut-Tahrir - religious organization banned in Russia.
10 September 2019, 11:52 | International relations |
UN prohibits Russian occupants to evict the OCU community from their church in Simferopol
The UN Human Rights Committee has banned Russia to evict the OCU community from their temple in occupied Simferopol. An expert of the Regional Center for Human Rights Serhiy Zaets wrote about it on Facebook, UNIAN reports.
6 September 2019, 11:47 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Occupants lay water duct across Muslim cemetery in Crimea
The construction works to lay a water duct are being carried out at the site of the Muslim burial in Kirov district of Russian-occupied Crimea, owing to which the burial is being destroyed.
5 September 2019, 13:15 | World news |
UN releases first report of Secretary General on human rights violations in Crimea
The United Nations has released the first report by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on human rights violations in annexed Crimea. The report is published on the UN website. It will be presented at the 74th session of the UN scheduled for September
23 August 2019, 11:04 | Freedom of Conscience |
Ukraine speaks at UN about religious persecution in Crimea and Donbas
Ukraine's chargé d'affaires to the UN Yuriy Vitrenko said that the Russian occupation authorities grossly violate the freedom of conscience and religion in the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas. Vitrenko said this during the Arria-Formula Meeting of the UN Security Council for the Protection of Religious Minorities in Armed Conflict, RBC-Ukraine reported citing Ukrinform.
13 August 2019, 10:42 | Islam |
The Leninsky District Court of the Russian Rostov-on-Don city has extended the arrest of four Crimean Tatars in the “Hizb ut-Tahrir case” from the so-called “second Simferopol group,” the Crimean Solidarity reports.
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