The Cabinet of Ministers has published a list of signs of “Russian world” propaganda

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has identified the signs of propaganda of the “Russian world”, according to which they plan to inspect religious communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It is noteworthy that the list of signs includes not only political but also purely religious aspects. The list was published on the RBC-Ukraine website.

It is reported that the Resolution approves the “Procedure for consideration of the facts of propaganda of the ”Russian world“ through religious organizations.” According to the document, the propaganda of the “Russian world” is “the spread of the relevant ideology that contradicts the national security of Ukraine.” The list of signs includes:

• Justifying the need to restore a Eurasian imperial space under the leadership of Russia, in which there is no place for an independent Ukraine.
• Presenting the so-called special military operation (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – ed.) as a “holy war,” a confrontation with a godless and immoral West.
• Justifying territorial claims and Russian military aggression, undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine by referencing shared history, religious traditions, linguistic similarities, and historical memory
• Denying the existence of the Ukrainian nation, Ukrainian statehood, or Ukraine’s right to sovereign independence through the use of ideas like “triune Rus” or the unity of the Russian people”.
• Justifying the expansion of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine through arguments about the uniqueness of the Russian historical path, Russian spirituality, special sanctity, “universality” of Russian Orthodoxy, and the eternal struggle between Russia and the West.
• Justifying the suppression of church life in Ukraine and its national-historical religious traditions.
• Denying the right of Ukrainian churches to autocephaly.
• Spreading the idea that any form of national self-awareness among Ukrainians and Belarusians threatens the “triune Russian people,” reduces its population, and therefore must be harshly suppressed, including through military force.
• Justifying Russian messianism and Russia’s civilizational-enlightenment historical role in the formation and development of the Ukrainian state.
• Justifying crimes committed by Russian military forces in Ukraine as actions that remove obstacles to fulfilling Russia’s special mission in the world
• Promoting and explaining the idea of the need to gather Russian lands, which are undefined in geographic scope and include all territories where Russian speakers or Orthodox believers live.
• Justifying the removal of obstacles, including through war, to reunite the divided Russian people.