CERTAIN ASPECTS OF ETHNOCONFESSIONAL REALITY IN THE AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA
Abstract
Implementation of the GUAM transnational energy transportation and communication project calls for a discussion of a vast range of issues related not merely to the political-legal, economic, and engineering spheres, which are indispensable for the project’s adequate functioning, but also to other problems found far beyond the project’s confines. I have in mind political stability, civil peace, and interfaith relations.
The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is a strategically important part of the GUAM corridor, which makes civil peace and stable interfaith relations a linchpin for the successful realization of GUAM’s political and economic tasks.
Ukraine’s independence created a qualitatively new social context in which millions of people acquired new ideas about the world, moral and ethical values, spirituality, and religion.
At all times religion has played an important role in people’s lives; at all times the church has been seen as a force conducive to society’s moral revival.
The Ukrainian Constitution and the country’s legal system proclaim the principle of equal rights and opportunities and are designed to prevent all encroachments on the “right to freedom of personal philosophy and religion,” the latter constituting the ideological, moral and ethical, and social basis of a civil society. “This right includes the freedom to profess or not to profess any religion” (Art 35).
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V.E. Grigoriants, “K voprosu o gosudarstvenno-konfessional’nykh otnosheniakh v Ukraine i ARK,” Supplement
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S. Chervonnaia, op. cit.
“Shtormovoe preduprezhdenie,” Krymskiy obozrevatel, No. 48, 27 November, 2007.
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