Nobody can resist religious sects in Ukraine: MP
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“Such a successful project of conquering by a small but well-organized sect of a mayor's office of one of large European capitals is unprecedented in history.” REGNUM correspondent in Kiev quotes one of the leaders of the Orthodox Way public organization, the Regions' Party member Yuri Boldyrev to state at a conference on neo-religious organizations on March 17. <!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } A:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline } -->
“I am well acquainted with the story's main character,” says Boldyrev about Kiev Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky. <!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->
“I had communicated with him even before he joined the sect. I know his story of joining it.” In Boldyrev's words, one cannot resist sects, for “if we try to create political mechanisms of pressuring sects, we are thereby violating one of the fundamental democratic rights.” <!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->
“By the inertia of public development, nobody is capable to start fighting sects legally. The only possible way is to adopt a law containing a definition <…> of psychological violence. Then we would be able to put an end to activity of neo-religious organizations who resort to such violence in their working with people,” the politician argues. <!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->
However, Boldyrev added, the Ukrainian Supreme Rada today is so preoccupied with other well-known problems that there is hardly anyone today who would be able to initiate the law.
21:24 03/18/2008
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