The problems of realization of freedom conscience and freedom of religions in the occupied territories in the east of Ukraine

Abstract

This article analyses the problem of realization of freedom of conscience and religious organisations in the occupied territories of Donetsk region in Ukraine during the armed conflict. It is shown that the implementation of the «Russian World» created poor conditions for religious denominations in the occupied territories. Almost all religious denominations other than Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) suffered repression, confiscation or material damage during the armed conflict. In the occupied territories the rights are violated and freedoms challenged the possibility of universal freedoms , the ability to implement universal values.Proved that the situation needs attention of Ukrainian religious studies, international community. advocacy of religious freedom in the occupied territories, to use all diplomatic means to recognize the «politics» of «People’s Republics» as discriminatory policies towards the religious organizations and consider their victims as those of religiously motivated terrorism.