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Friday, December 12, 2014

Kremlin official slams violence against members of Moscow-ruled Orthodox Church in Ukraine

    



Moscow,  - President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, Sergey Ivanov, has slammed violence in Ukraine against the Orthodox Christian community governed by the Moscow Patriarchate.

"With complete connivance from the authorities, more than 60 attacks have taken place in Ukraine since the start of the year - physical attacks on church buildings and priests of the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. All this, by the way, is happening in the center of enlightened and civilized Europe - I'd like to emphasize this," Ivanov said at a meeting in the Kremlin on Thursday of the presidential council for liaison with religious associations.

"The illegal change of government in Ukraine in February this year led to a very serious outbreak of radicalism in general and, as a result, gave rise to mass-scale violations of law, religious intolerance and violence against believers," he said.

This "would have been impossible if, right from the outset, public and political processes had been dealt with through dialogue, without external interference," Ivanov said. "Russia has always advocated such an approach and will continue to advocate it."

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