According to someone else's charter

The Court of Appeal of Sevastopol ordered the Crimean diocese of the UOC -KP to pay half a million rubles a fine and free 112 square nets on the ground floor of the Cathedral in Simferopol. This was stated by Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimean Clement, reports "Voice of Crimea."

"On June 14, a meeting of the Court of Appeal of the city of Sevastopol was held, to which we filed a lawsuit to cancel the decision of the Crimea Arbitration Court of January 14, 2016, where we were required to release part of the church’s premises and the payment of a huge fine. The Court of Appeal supported the arbitration court. From day to day we expect representatives of the executive service that will come to implement the court decision," said Clement.

The archbishop also said that recently the pressure has intensified on him, and he receives threats in his address.

Clement complained that the Ukrainian government does nothing to support the Kyiv Patriarchate in Crimea. In particular, according to him, the Ukrainian government has not yet decided to transfer the premises in Simferopol, where the Crimean diocesan administration of the UOC -KP and the Cathedral of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Vladimir and Olga is located, in the property of the UOC of the Communist Party. “For this, it was enough to make changes to existing decisions and adopt them with a decision of the government, or the Verkhovna Rada. And this would give us the opportunity to look for the truth and protection in international courts,” the archbishop said.

According to Clement, he repeatedly appealed to the prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with a request to open criminal proceedings against the judge of the Arbitration Court Sokolova and Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Ruslan Balbek. With their direct participation, the destruction of the UOC -KP on the peninsula continues, the archbishop emphasized. "I have not been heard. Today there is no criminal proceedings," Clement said.

Immediately after the annexation of Crimea, the Russian authorities began to violate the previous written guarantees of the inviolability of the parishes of the UOC -KP. Already in April 2014, the believers actually took away the churches of the Holy Martyr Clement of Roman and the Protection of the Mother of God in the village of Perevalny.

On April 25, 2014, on behalf of the entire Crimean diocese of the UOC, the Communist Party will turn to President of Russia Vladimir Putin demanding equal rights to believers of the Kyiv Patriarchate in Crimea to freely exercise prayer and church life, a free confession of the Orthodox faith and national-cultural traditions.