The news from the Constantinople Synod on Oct. 11 can be described as a second round of independence from Russia for which President Petro Poroshenko can take credit. The first independence was of course achieved 27 years ago by Leonid Kravchuk when he “walked (Ukraine) between the rain drops” (as the joke went) out of the USSR.
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Taras Kuzio: Poroshenko has achieved a second independence from Russia
Patriarch Filaret (C) of the Kyiv-based Ukrainian Orthodox Church blesses a believer during a religious procession in Kyiv on July 28, 2018, marking the 1030th anniversary of the Christianization of Kyivan Rus.
