Religious Freedom amid Russian aggression against Ukraine: experts on experience of 2014-2022.

On March 18 at 13:00 an online discussion on " Religious Freedom amid Russian aggression against Ukraine: experts on experience of 2014-2022" will take place.

Organizer: Ukrinform.

Participants:

Olena Bohdan - Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, moderator

Maksym Vasin - executive director of the Institute for Religious Freedom

Vyacheslav Horshkov - coordinator for cooperation of State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience with religious communities

Ihor Kozlovskyi - senior research associate at the Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, head of the Center for Religious Studies and International Spiritual Relations

Oleksandra Matviychuk - chair of the Board of the Center for Civil Liberties

Kostyantyn Sihov - Director of the Center for European Humanities Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Liudmyla Fylypovych - vice-president of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies

Discussion points: Reaction of religious communities in Ukraine and abroad to Russian aggression against Ukraine; cynical attempts of Russian propagandists to cover imperial ambitions with "protection of Orthodoxy"; violation of the right to freedom of religion on temporarily occupied territories of eastern Ukraine and the Crimea; consequences of Russian invasion for religious communities

The briefing will take place online via ZOOM video conference.

Accreditation of media representatives at [email protected]

Accreditation will last until 11:00 am on March 17, for confirmation you need to specify your first name, last name, name of the edition, after that you will be provided an access link to the event conference in ZOOM.

The event will be broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Ukrinform Agency: https://www.youtube.com/user/UkrinformTV

Use of any materials from the official Ukrinform YouTube channel is possible only with observance of the copyright established by the channel. When showing a video clip during a live broadcast, it is obligatory to refer to the author - Ukrinform - show its name on the screen and say it out loud.