... Russia’s hope for partnership relations with Europe in the 1990s-2000s (with the approval of the United States). It would seem that Ukraine is promised European integration, but then why did the appeals of Ukrainian Orthodox Christians to the OSCE bring no result?... ... What’s more, they do not realize their incompetence because their documents include Orthodoxy in the larger category of “Christianity.” They do not presume to encounter in Orthodoxy a qualitative (rather than geographical or chronological) alternative ...
... resources and centralization of power go hand in hand with the readiness to grant broad autonomy to individual parts, and conservative rhetoric in Russia coexisted perfectly within the framework of establishing contacts with Catholics and Anglicans.
Ukraine as the Point of Collapse
The conflict between Moscow and Constantinople has reached a new level. Its further development will determine the future of the world Orthodoxy and affect, at the very least, the position of Christianity in Europe, where some 257 million Catholics and about 200.5 million Orthodox Christians live
The problem of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian church would have never grown to its current scale had it been solely a matter of the independence ...
