Against the backdrop of Russia’s launch of a full-scale war against Ukraine on 24 February 2022, voices calling for the outlaw of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) have increasingly begun to resound over the Dnieper. The increase in negative attitudes towards this Church was influenced by their frequent cases of justification of Russian aggression as well as the collaboration of individual clergy of the UOC (MP) with the aggressor, including high hierarchs. Measures to enable the outlawing of this Church were taken first at the local government level and then also at the state level.
The research provided answers to the following questions: how did individual local government bodies justify the need to outlaw the UOC (MP); what was the position of individual political parties on the issue of the Church’s outlawing; what changes to the law were envisaged in the government’s draft “Law on Bringing Changes to Selected Laws of Ukraine Regarding the Activities of Religious Organisations in Ukraine”; why did the ruling camp for a long time remain reluctant to admit the need to adopt legislation enabling the outlawing of the UOC (MP); what was the attitude of Ukrainian society towards the possible outlawing of the UOC (MP)?
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