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If the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is given autocephaly, there will no longer be Moscow and Moscow spirit in Ukraine,” head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiyiv Patriarchate, Filaret, said, while addressing the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament on Nov. 23, on the occasion of the commemoration of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

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