On March 14, the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv hosted an international scientific and practical conference “Religious Policy of the Russian Federation as a Weapon of Hybrid Warfare: Directions of Implementation and Mechanisms of Counteraction.”
This was reported by the IRS.
The event was attended by Ukrainian scholars, experts, human rights activists, representatives of religious organizations, media and government agencies, guests from the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France and Belgium.
The conference was organized by the Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, the State Service for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, the Department of Religious Studies of the H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and others.
The participants discussed the general topic in four sessions in the following thematic areas: “Legal Challenges and Strategies for Countering the Religious Policy of the Russian Federation in a Hybrid War”; ‘The Activities of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad: a Network of Churches and Centers for the Dissemination of Russian Propaganda and Destructive Work’; ‘Destructive Activities of the Russian Orthodox Church and Its Satellites in Ukraine’; and ‘Non-Orthodox Denominations of the Russian Federation in the Wake of the Russian World Doctrine: Reasons, Motives, and Consequences’.
After the discussions, the participants of the international scientific and practical conference “Religious Policy of the Russian Federation as a Weapon of Hybrid Warfare: Directions of Implementation and Mechanisms of Counteraction” adopted a draft Resolution, the text of which will be finalized per the participants' proposals.