Expert: Power plays along with nationalists due to UOC supporters passivity
Ruslan Bortnik. Photo: a screenshot of the video on the “1Kozak” Youtube channel
The current Ukrainian government is sensitive to street protests, so it can't resist the national democrats and nationalists who actively rally and protest, while their opponents, including UOC believers, passive, disappointed with the elections, do not go to vote and publicly defend their interests. Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute for Politics Analysis and Management, said this on the air of the “Right to Faith” programme on the “1Kozak” Youtube channel.
In his opinion, such passivity allows nationalists, with the support or connivance of the authorities, to strike blows at the canonical Church. The expert believes that further development according to this scenario will lead to attempts to seize significant religious institutions and the liquidation of the UOC as a religious organization. “Attempts to seize religious institutions, new and symbolic, are no longer just rural churches, irreversible. And the attempts to liquidate or split the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as an organization are irreversible,” believes Ruslan Bortnik.
As reported, Ruslan Bortnik believes the US administration may support an attack on the UOC in Ukraine.
Read also
Iranian rabbi calls for revenge for the assassination of the country's Muslim leader
An Iranian rabbi justified the demand for "blood revenge" with biblical texts and called for the elimination of those who organized the assassination of Khamenei.
Kirovograd Metropolitan consecrated a new church in Ivanivka
Metropolitan Mykola presented church awards to benefactors who helped in the construction of the church.
A massive fire destroyed a synagogue in Hadiach
Rabbi Shneur Deutsch called the fire a tremendous tragedy and promised to rebuild the synagogue despite millions in damages.
Procession held in Izium Eparchy to site where miraculous icon was found
UOC believers took part in a procession to the Vysochynivka spring, where clergy celebrated a water-blessing prayer service.
Islamist drives into crowd at Berlin LGBT Pride march
German authorities described the Islamist attack on participants in a Berlin Pride March as an assault on a free society.
His Beatitude: Legalizing sin will not solve humanity's problems
The Primate of the UOC celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and spoke about the destructive consequences of legitimizing sin.