Posted on 12/02/2022 9:43:12 AM PST by Kazan
In May, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed into law No. 7172-1 that will ban opposition parties and seize their property. The law targets opposition parties if they deny the armed aggression against Ukraine.
The law includes actions that support the Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus, the two invading countries.
The news was first published on the Ukrainian news website UKRinform. This news was reported the same day US GOP Senators paid him a visit in Kyiv to show their support.
Zelenskyy also closed all of the TV stations and consolidated them into one state-run channel.
“Ukraine has had to take extraordinary measures to fight Russia’s invasion. Among them, the government has consolidated the country’s television outlets and dissolved rival political parties. It says it needs to do this to maintain a united front in fighting Russia,” NPR reported.
On Friday, after banning all TV platforms in Ukraine into one state broadcast, jailing political rivals, and restricting political parties, Zelensky now banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
“A meeting of the NSDC (National Security Defense Council) was held today,” said Zelensky. “A meeting at which we examined numerous facts of the ties of certain religious circles in Ukraine with the aggressor state.”
“It is necessary to create such conditions in which any figures dependent on the aggressor country will not be able to manipulate Ukrainians and weaken Ukraine from within,” he continued, referring to Russia, which invaded Ukraine in late February.
“The NSDC instructed the government to submit to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s parliament) a bill on the impossibility of the activities of religious organizations affiliated with the centers of influence in the Russian Federation in Ukraine,” added Zelensky.
“In addition, the state Service for Ethnopolitics and freedom of Conscience has been instructed to ensure the religious studies examination of the Statute on the Management of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for the presence of a church-canonical connection with the Moscow Patriarchate and if necessary, apply the measures provided for by law.”
Well, you guys now back Xi in his attempt to take Taiwan, as the CCP and Xi are standing up to “globo homo”. Sorry but old school Marxism is just as bad.
The neo-Nazis problem extends far more than to the Azov’s....
Just saying.
Any amount of critical objective research will expose that the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Banderist problem has a long long history which became more problematic and pronounced in 2014 to now.
The issue goes far beyond just the Azov’s.
Much like Biden’s Covid vax hoax, he lied and people died, same parallels with his Ukie war. Wake up America, everything senile Joe supports or mandates is designed to cripple or destroy America.
What a surprise. He’s already banned any political party other than his own, so why not any church?
Incidentally, even the lefty-lunatic Pope Francis tried to arrange negotiations...and guess who refused? Begins with a Z...
This is the case even though the Ukraine has lots of Byzantine Rite (sometimes called “Greek Rite”) churches that in theory are under the Pope.
But Zelensky and Biden hold the money cards in their hands.
Lenin was not much of a Jew, and he was no Christian at all!!!!
Zelensky fits the same description. His wife and children are members of the Orthodox Church—the same Church that he is now persecuting!!!!
Thank you, people are starting to wake up to senile Joe’s lies and deception. Biden’s Covid hoax and shut downs wasn’t enough to wake up Americans, but his wasteful, disgusting persistent Russian Derangement Syndrome and Ukie war is coming to light….sad part is Biden’s war cheerleaders are being lied to and don’t even know it!….Bad Vlad, war, war, war…..carry on war cheerleaders, you are headed for a monstrous Biden hang over.
Nudelman is of Ukrainian Jewish heritage just like Vindman. Please don’t tell Kanye. That boy is in serious mental health crisis and he would probably make some more crazy associations. He might even assume her loyalty was more to Ukraine than the USA.
Too many foreign loyal diplomats in America. Albright was another with foreign sympathies.
So, we are funding a totally fascist country. The great reset. Pray for your church - they will be coming for it next.
And she’s porked up since 2014. Embezzled too many of those Maidan cookies.
And you know, as an aside, I bet it would be rather disheartening to know how many Americans supported the EuroMaidan because it sounds like “European maiden”?
I mean, maidens are harmless waifs, innocent and wide eyed.
I’m not kidding.... I bet it would shock to know how many people made that mental connection.
He bans church. He bans speaking Russian.
Yet people doubt the majority in Ukrainian regions voted to leave.
Funny, everything Senile Joe does to harm Russia backfires, from sanctions to “ turning the Ruble to rubble”, the Ruble is at highs, inflation in Russia going down, Russian energy, metals, food, fertilizer, food now bringing in historic returns- China , India SA, ME, Brics aligning with Vlad….Good Job Vegetable Head!
It’s war time for his country. Sometimes unpleasant measures have to be taken. If it’s temporary, I see no problem with it.
BTW - Gateway Pundit should be taken with a grain of salt(or a tablespoon).
One can’t use “truth” and “Kazan” in the same sentence except as a cancellation.
LOL!!
This is old debunked propaganda. A pro-separatist narrative created by Kiev hating commie militants and spread by ethnic Russian sympathizers and pro-Putin journalists from Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Try doing your homework and post this BS re-tread garbage somewhere else.
@Bellagio
Rachel Maddow, is that you?
Rachel Maddow: All Russia. All the Time
Would a church based in Germany with close ties to the Nazi leadership be allowed to function freely in the UK during World War II?
Were they tied to Russia - the mortal enemy of Ukraine - during the war? Even in the US those suspected of potential ties to the enemy used to be dealt with harshly, e.g. Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
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