Verkhovna Rada to consider why UOC is not banned yet

The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian Policy will convene an extraordinary meeting to find out why the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has not yet been banned. The deputies plan to ask relevant questions to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is considered guilty of delaying the implementation of the notorious anti-church law No. 3894, adopted on August 20, 2024. This is reported by Glavkom.

It is reported that the journalists of the Glavkom publication sent a journalistic request to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, in which they asked about the implementation of the provisions of anti-church law No. 3894, aimed at banning the activities of the UOC. The response from the Verkhovna Rada reads as follows: “We would like to inform you that at one of the next meetings of the Committee the issue of the implementation of the above law will be considered, taking into account the information that will be provided by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at our request.”

Earlier, MP Nikita Poturaev, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy and co-author of the law banning the UOC, accused the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption of delaying the implementation of anti-church law No. 3894, which is aimed at banning the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Poturaev believes that the process of banning the UOC could have been launched long ago, without waiting for the nine-month deadline.