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: Zelensky revokes citizenship of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Onufriy By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on the deprivation of citizenship of Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church...
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
UKRAINE: Does the UOC maintain ties with the Moscow Patriarchate? The official investigation by the State Service of Ukraine on Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience (DESS) is going on By Dr Ievgeniia Gidulyanova for Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (30.05.2025)...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Women sentenced for making gifts to the Ukrainian Church in two Republics of the Federation OVD-Info (07.05.2025) – On March 24, the Neftekamsk City Court of Bashkortostan sentenced Resid Sadeev to 360 hours of compulsory work in the case of financing an...
