MP: Claim that UOC was funded by the Kremlin is a stereotype
Mykyta Poturaev. Photo: Facebook page of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Reserve
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, Mykyta Poturaev, stated that the notion of direct Kremlin funding for the UOC is a “stereotype,” Glavcom reports.
“Contrary to all the stereotypes that claim the UOC (MP) is practically directly subsidized by the Kremlin, the main sources of income that funded it – and the ‘Mercedeses’ for its clergy – have always been its own resources plus patrons like Vadym Novynskyi,” said the MP, who is known for his openly hostile remarks about the UOC.
He complained that the OCU “simply doesn’t have that kind of capital; there are no patrons of that level.” According to him, the few sponsors they do have “just can’t support the entire system.”
Earlier, the UOJ reported that, according to Poturaev, the State Ethnopolitics Service had studied UOC–ROC ties using Russian documents.
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