The Milton Friedman Institute called on the European Federation of Journalists, Amnesty International, and the Vatican to defend Orthodox journalist Dmitri Skvortsov, who was arrested in Ukraine.
“For articles and materials in defense of canonical Orthodoxy, Russian culture and the Russian language, now trampled on in Ukraine with the full support of the official authorities. This government believes that it is very unprofitable to have free opponents such as Skvortsov, especially against the background of the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Russian culture it is mounting. That is why, in the absence of other arguments, it tries to impute to him arguments that the Russian culture in his articles is called the culture of the world level (the “exaltation of Russian culture” is incriminated), and the like. Although the entire intellectual world has long ago indeed recognized Russian culture as great, and such representatives of culture as Chekhov and Tchaikovsky, Sholokhov and Tarkovsky, Rachmaninov and Brodsky, and many others, is considered the greatest geniuses of mankind, “- writes Alessandro Bertoldi, reports “Ukraine.ru”. The publication points out that Skvortsov faces 15 years in prison for articles in support of the unity of the Russian Church.
Alessandro Bertoldi called the journalist’s case a shameful politically motivated trial, which is not unique to Ukraine.
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