Moscow, March 5, 2014
The highest political posts in Ukraine are now occupied by people connected with religious organizations that are not traditional for the Ukraine.
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Acting President, speaker of the Verkhovnaya Rada Alexander Turchinov is a Baptist pastor, and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is a scientologist. His sister chairs a major scientologist organization in the USA, Ukrainian media report. Orthodox Christianity is historically, and currently by far the largest religious group, with a 2004 census showing 26 percent against a Protestant .9 percent. In that census, 62 percent were reported non-religious, or not belonging to any church.
Some years ago books by the Church of Scientology founder Ron Hubbard were recognized extremist in Russia. Scientology is banned in Germany, and many ex-scientologists have reported serious violations of human rights and dignity within the sect.