{"id":51720,"date":"2021-07-08T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=51720"},"modified":"2021-07-08T09:57:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:57:33","slug":"rocinu-part-of-russia-s-roc-that-s-a-fact-mp-novysnky-acknowledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2021\/07\/08\/rocinu-part-of-russia-s-roc-that-s-a-fact-mp-novysnky-acknowledges\/","title":{"rendered":"ROCinU part of Russia&#8217;s ROC: &#8220;That&#8217;s a fact&#8221;, MP Novysnky acknowledges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Russian MP Vadym Novysnky, who is one of the major sponsors of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and at the same time its archdeacon, has acknowledged that what&#8217;s formerly been known as the &#8220;Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate&#8221; is part of the Russian Orthodox Church operating in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (ROCinU \u2013 ed.) Is part of the ROC is a fact\u2026 We have a spiritual connection with the ROC, it can&#8217;t be severed,&#8221; Novynsky said in an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/rus\/articles\/2021\/07\/7\/7299666\/\">Ukrainian Pravda<\/a> online outlet.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that, despite being a member of the ROC, the ROCinU enjoys broad autonomy rights.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Novynsky also denied that the ROCinU is a political instrument Russia has been exploiting in its interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a myth. I know what I&#8217;m talking about. This is a myth, mostly promoted by journalists, that our Church (ROCinU \u2013 ed.) is overly politicized,&#8221; said the pro-Russian mogul.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier we reported that a lobbyist of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and a Novynsky&#8217;s friend is running for the senior post at the<a href=\"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2021\/07\/03\/russian-orthodox-church-lobbyist-nominated-for-post-in-ethnic-policy-agency\/\"> State Ethnic Policy Agency.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Russian MP Vadym Novysnky, who is one of the major sponsors of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and at the same time its archdeacon, has acknowledged that what&#8217;s formerly been known as the &#8220;Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate&#8221; is part of the Russian Orthodox Church operating in Ukraine. &#8220;That the Ukrainian Orthodox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5142,5143],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-security"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6e49424-1026805-e1625649008922.jpg?fit=1680%2C1120&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}