The Ukrainian Government is trying to pass a law which will allow Russian Orthodox churches to be taken over by other faiths, but legislative approval has long remained in doubt; and, so, the government is instead just standing aside, while it lets non Russian-Orthodox believers, and especially Catholic believers, take possession of Russian-Orthodox churches. But this Ukrainian Government is simultaneously propagandizing for the legalization of those church-seizures, the passing of this bill into law; they are anything but neutral about it.
This is happening in a Ukrainian context which is extremely polarized politically, and almost as polarized religiously; so, the political division is even stronger than is the sheerly religious one, and this Ukrainian Government is thus increasing Ukraine's polarization, as a simultaneously political-and-religious divide, in which the political and religious hatreds feed off of one-another. The public don't want it; even the clergy don't want it; but, the Government does, and it continues trying to pass this measure into law.
The development and present status of this matter will be summarized here, with links to the sources.
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