PARUBY APPEALS COURT DECISION "ON ILLEGAL ACTIONS" OF
SPEAKER
IN ADOPTION OF LAW ON RENAMING UPTsMP
At the start of the session of the Verkhovna Rada, the
chairman, Andrei
Paruby, stated that a district administrative court of Kiev had
ruled the
actions of the speaker of parliament in connection with the
adoption of the
draft law on the compulsory renaming of the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church of the
Moscow Patriarchate (UPTsMP) to be illegal.
Paruby declared that this decision of the district court
is not final
and will be appealed, a correspondent of #Bukv reports.
According to the head of parliament, the UPTsMP should
be called the
Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
Earlier, a people's deputy from the Opposition Bloc,
Vadim Novinsky, on
his Facebook page, wrote that the district administrative court
of the city of
Kiev ruled to find the actions of the head of the Verkhovna
Rada, Andrei Paruby,
to be illegal, granting the lawsuit of people's deputy of the
Opposition Bloc
fraction Alexander Dolzhenkov. The issue is about the adoption
of the draft law
"On introducing changes into the Ukrainian law 'On freedom of
conscience
and religious organizations.'"
Novinsky also clarified that the draft law involved the
attempt
"forcibly to rename" the UPTsMP as the Russian Church in
Ukraine.
Information about this decision is still absent from the
website of the
district administrative court of Kiev and from the Uniform State
Register of
Judicial Decisions.
We recall that on 20 December, people's deputies
supported the draft
law about renaming the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow
Patriarchate. On
the same day, the document was signed by the speaker of
parliament, Andrei
Paruby.
On 18 January, 49 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada
appealed to the
Constitutional Court against the law that required the UPTs of
the Moscow
patriarchate to indicate in its name its affiliation with
Russia.
On 21 January it was reported that the representation to
the Ukrainian
Constitutional Court regarding the constitutionality of the law
that requires
the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarch to show in
its name its
affiliation with the Russian Orthodox Church (RPTs) does not
suspend the legal force
of this law. (tr. by PDS, posted 9 April 2019)
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