Parliamentary Head’s Appearance at PACE: Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia in Ukraine 23.05.2008, [18:40] // Analysis & comments // Maxim VASYN, executive director of the Institute of Religious Freedom (Kyiv), L.L.B.
Commentary on Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko’s appearance at the PACE conference, 16 April 2008. It is not the new religious trends that are booming but the journalists trying to write about them 03.04.2008, [11:00] // Analysis & comments // Liudmyla 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 Ukraine, executive director of the Center of Religious Information and Freedom of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies Experts Church-state relations: What the new year has in store for us. 22.01.2008, [17:18] // Analysis & comments // Volodymyr MARUSHCHENKO, national deputy of Ukraine, senior assistant head of the Christian Democratic Union
Ukraine’s Committee on Matters of Religions and Nationalities Clarified Status of UOC-MP 26.06.2008, [12:39] // Foreign relations // Kyiv— On 25 June 2008, the press-service of the State Committee on Nationalities and Religions released a statement outlining the mistakes of Patriarch Alexis II’s speech at the Hierarchical Council when he said that "the new wording of the Statute of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) comes into effect upon the approval of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).” Representatives of the State Committee of Ukraine consider the statement of the patriarch as one that questions the competence of the State Committee on Matters of Nationalities and Religions, which registered the amendments to the Statute of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Representatives of the committee stress that the legal and canonical status of the UOC, prescribed in the Statute of the ROC, confirm that the Statutes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (which is self-governed and has the right of extended autonomy) is approved by its head (Metropolitan Sabodan - RISU) and then endorsed by the Moscow Patriarchate. As for the Synod of ROC, according to the Statutes of ROC and UOC it has no power to approve the Statutes.
