SBU is studying the Christmas message of Patriarch Kirill
The main department of the SBU in Kyiv and the Kyiv region received temporary access to things and documents of the Sofrino company (Russia), which are at the disposal of the Kyiv city customs, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
This was reported by the Ukrainian publication Glavkom with reference to the resolution of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv.
Specifically, we are talking about “printed materials in the form of greeting cards from the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill (Gundyaev).”
“In the text of these postcards, which are planned to be distributed among the episcopate, clergy and believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, there may be calls and statements aimed at creating among the specified audience of the state’s population an increase in sentiments of hostility, hatred towards the Ukrainian-speaking population of the state and other religious denominations,” the intelligence service said in a statement.
As we see, it took the Ukrainian special services, customs and judicial authorities almost three months since Christmas to come to only intermediate results of a joint investigation involving their best intellectual forces about what was in the patriarch’s message (which, in their opinion, is still – three months after Christmas – “planned to be distributed”) “possible existing (Sic!!!) appeals.”
Apparently, the final results on whether the appeals are only “possible” or actually “exist” should be expected in another three months – when the best experts finally understand the meaning of the message posted on thousands of websites of the Russian Orthodox Church (including the UOC-MP).
In fact, the patriarch’s address speaks exclusively about the Christmas joy of Orthodox Christians. It NEVER mentions the words “Ukraine” or “Ukrainians”. However, perhaps this is discrimination against the specified “audience of the population.” As well as “other religious denominations” that have nothing to do with Christ, and, therefore, with his Nativity.
However, as stated in the SBU’s petition, “access to these documents is carried out within the framework of criminal proceedings (Part 2 of Article 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Deliberate actions committed with the aim of changing the boundaries of the territory or state border of Ukraine in violation of the order established by the Constitution of Ukraine , as well as public calls or distribution of materials calling for such actions”) for the events that occurred on July 17, 2016 in Kyiv.”
"Then, near the St. Sophia of Kyiv National Park, participants in the 'Procession of the Cross' and the leader of the religious organizations 'Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of Ukraine' and 'Brotherhood of the Holy Archangel Michael of the UOC' sang the Russian Imperial anthem 'God Save the Tsar' and chanted 'Let a second Russia rise again,'" the criminal case authors explain . "Furthermore, the participants held symbols of the Russian Empire, portraits of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, and sat on the grave of the first patriarch of Ukraine."
Politnavigator asked Valentin Lukyanik , head of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of Ukraine, mentioned in the SBU report , how exactly the anthem "God Save the Tsar!" and the "portraits" of the Church-canonized Tsar threaten "changes to Ukraine's state borders in violation of the procedure established by the Constitution of Ukraine . "
“I can’t answer because no one called me to the SBU.” But how they could make procedural decisions without me is beyond my comprehension.
“Politnavigator”: “God Save the Tsar” in your performance is quite possible, but what kind of call is this - “Let the second Russia rise again”?
“I think this has already been dragged into something.” Apparently, this refers to the Canon of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers, in one of the songs of which the Orthodox pray: “May Holy Rus' rise again...”. I don’t know whether the SBU “twisted” the words of the canon approved by the Church out of malicious intent or due to the complete lack of specialists who would have at least some idea about these issues.
“Politnavigator”: – Could you please explain how prayer can threaten the territorial integrity and inviolability of the state? After all, if the security agencies were so frightened by the quotation from the canon to the royal martyrs, then it follows that the SBU recognizes them as saints, through whose prayers one can destroy “the largest European country”?
– Either this is a state that is afraid of prayers to Orthodox saints (then the question arises about the roots of this state), or this is evidence of the “competence” of people who make such determinations. Most likely, they are simply using any reasons and clues to suppress any manifestation of dissent. It seems that more serious matters (the same corruption in the highest echelons of power, which is ruining this state right before our eyes) are simply too much for them. It remains, as Nikulin used to say to Vitsin, “to train on cats,” fighting with the Orthodox.
But what relation the Patriarch’s 2019 Christmas message has to the Kyivans’ Procession of the Cross in 2016 remained a mystery for Valentin Borisovich himself. So we are waiting for new wonderful discoveries from the SBU.
As for the claims that the participants in the procession sat on the "grave" of the self-proclaimed "patriarch" of the unrecognized so-called "Kyiv Patriarchate" (Hitler collaborator and KGB informer in Stalin's camps, Volodymyr Romanyuk, who was driven to death by his rival, Filaret Denisenko, and arbitrarily, without permission from the authorities, buried by Ukrainian neo-Nazis under the sidewalk at the entrance to St. Sophia Cathedral), this is refuted by the SBU's own operational footage .
Nevertheless, the patriarch's message was read in UOC-MP churches. Archpriest Gennady Shkil, a cleric of the Kherson Diocese, described how this happened on Facebook: "Times have changed: you can read it from a smartphone. And let the attentive Ukrainian customs officers prepare a hole for a new star on their shoulder straps, since it's more important to them than the Star of Bethlehem... But I'll still commit sabotage – I'll download the message from the internet and read it... Just don't tell anyone!"
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The SBU is studying Patriarch Kirill's Christmas message.