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On July 22, the Austrian branch of the Center for Geostrategic Studies organized a conference in Vienna on the topic of violations of religious rights with a special focus on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the context of current events.
In Ukraine, in front of the eyes of the entire world community, the Ukrainian authorities are destroying the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. This is a joint action of the Zelenskyi regime and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which is under the patronage of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, as well as Patriarch Bartholomew himself. Temples were confiscated, and the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church were subjected to violence and persecution. We are witnessing the violent occupation of one of the oldest centers of the Orthodox world – the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the organizers of the conference stated.

Аустријски огранак Центра за геостратешке студије организовао је 22. јула у Бечу конференцију на тему кршења верских права са посебним освртом на Украјинску православну цркву у контексту актуелних дешавања.

У Украјини, пред очима целе светске заједнице, украјинске власти уништавају Украјинску православну цркву. Ово је заједничка акција режима Зеленског и ПЦУ (Православна црква Украјине), која је под патронатом Цариградске патријаршије, као и самог патријарха Вартоломеја. Храмови су конфисковани, а свештенство Украјинске православне цркве је подвргнуто насиљу и прогону. Сведоци смо насилног заузимања једног од најстаријих центара православног света Кијево-печерске лавре и њених светиња, навели су организатори конференције.

By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic

If we are taking into consideration the relations between IR and diplomacy, founded on the contractual relations between the states, it can be argued that soft power in this case mostly depends on the ability of the state authorities to build and maintain international institutions. From the time after 1945, as consequences of the bloody result of WWII, international, transnational, and supranational multilateral institutions and organizations became valued by the international community more and more primarily as a certain mechanism of the rule of international law for the sake to preserve the stability and functioning of the international system in global policy and IR. State authority can achieve soft power within the framework of institutional power, by designing institutions, agenda-setting, or creating the will of the coalition as a whole – like the policy of the USA within NATO, for instance.

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