It’s Christmas Eve in Kyiv, and Ukraine just won a major victory in its long struggle for independence from Moscow.
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John E. Herbst: Ukraine’s new Orthodox Church free from Moscow but fight isn’t over
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on January 6, 2019, shows Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (L) and Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church (R), during the official ceremony of "Tomos" decree of autocephaly handing at the Patriarchal Church of St George in Istanbul. - The creation of an Orthodox church in Ukraine independent of Moscow ends more than 300 years of Moscow domination.
