Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: The legal fate of the UOC MP against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine HRWF (07.10.2025) – Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the attention of the Ukrainian authorities to religious organizations with actual or...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: Military conscription and freedom of religion in Ukraine: Is it legal to mobilize a priest? By Dr Ievgeniia Gidulyanova for Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (20.06.2025) – On 10 June 2025, at a checkpoint in the Odesa region, there was an attempt to...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
ESTONIA: The Russian Orthodox Church to be declared a terrorist organization? The head of the Estonian Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed to recognize the Russian Orthodox Church as a terrorist organization. The Russian Orthodox Church compared it to a “witch...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
The end of unity: How the Russian Orthodox Church lost Ukraine Regina Elsner, a researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). ZOiS (03.03.2022) – Since the end of the Soviet Union, dozens of theologians and scholars of religion...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
An Orthodox Church secedes from Moscow Patriarchate Ancient Orthodox Church of Ukraine legally withdraws from its subordination to Moscow RISU (02.11.2022) – https://bit.ly/3tCczpH – The Ancient Orthodox Church of Ukraine (AOCU) has restored its historical...
