The story of the main Crimean Filaret member is becoming overgrown with nasty details
The story surrounding the detention of the head of Ukrainian schismatics Pavel Kushch (Kliment) over the weekend in Simferopol demonstrates the double standards professed by Ukraine and its Western patrons.
This is discussed by the head of the Union of Political Emigrants of Ukraine Larisa Shesler, who draws attention to the fact that Kushch is a citizen of the Russian Federation, but Kyiv will not apply any sanctions against him.
“Can you imagine the sensation “The police detained a citizen of the Russian Federation for theft, after giving an explanation, the citizen was released and brought to administrative responsibility for obscene swearing in public places”?
Surely such news does not pull on a sensation.
However, she pulled. All Ukrainian media websites and the US Embassy website indignantly published information about the detention of an OCU priest in Simferopol, and assessed this as persecution of Ukrainian citizens in Crimea for political reasons.
However, Bishop Clement himself (in the world Pavel Kushch) is a citizen of the Russian Federation and received a passport, like all Crimeans, in 2014. This means that all the sobs of the Ukrainian Ombudsman Denisova and the American embassy look false and hypocritical.
The Archbishop of the OCU can be a citizen of Russia, but the rector of the Tithe Church, Father Gideon Charon, was deported from Ukraine and deprived of Ukrainian citizenship, although he did not renounce it. And for some reason this did not cause any indignation at the US Embassy.
And another thought arose when I saw scans of Pavel Kushch's passport.
“As difficult as the path to Russian citizenship is for people who shed blood in Donbass, so simple is the path to this passport for all sorts of “patriots” of Ukraine, who now appear to be victims of political persecution.
And if the Ukrainian authorities so insist that Pavel Kushch is a Ukrainian citizen, can they not object and deport him from Russia for administrative violations in strict accordance with Russian legislation on foreigners?” – suggests the social activist.
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