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  • 2023-01-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Zelenskyy Call for Sanctions on 'Any Christian Caught Worshiping in Unapproved Ways'? (en)
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  • On Dec. 1, 2021, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy signed a decree titled On certain aspects of the activities of religious organizations in Ukraine and the application of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions). That order recommended several actions specifically against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is historically associated with, but now technically independent of, Moscow: The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Prior to that announcement, Ukraine's Security Services, the SBU, raided the headquarters of that organization in Kyiv — National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve — amid concerns, among other things, about the use of the premises ... for sheltering sabotage and reconnaissance groups, foreign citizens, [and] weapons storage. On a Dec. 7, 2022, broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson criticized the move in his opening monologue, injecting what he described as a direct quote from Zelenskyy about worshiping in unapproved ways: In a Dec. 21, 2022, exchange that added further virality to the claim, however, Fox News personality Tulsi Gabbard repeated that quote back to the very person who appears to have invented it: Only the words personal economic and restrictive sanctions can be attributed to Zelenskyy or the government of Ukraine. The rest — statements about approved forms of worship — are a deceptively imprecise paraphrase of the Zelenskyy decree. Virtually all citations regarding the existence of this quote in other media sources are attributed to the Tucker Carlson monologue. For example, a Dec. 15 opinion piece on Christian Post claimed this while linking to the Tucker segment as its evidence: But neither the speech Zelenskyy made announcing the decree, the decree itself, nor any document or speech cited by Carlson, said anything close to that statement. Here is that decree in full: In a speech that was also cited by Carlson announcing the move, Zelenskyy echoed the same basic elements of the law using roughly the same language: Based on this, Carlson appears to have been referencing the portion of the decree that authorizes the government to pursue personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) to natural persons while falsely insinuating that the term applied to any Christian caught worshiping in unapproved ways was part of the original quote. Because this clause was not part of the original quote, the claim is False. (en)
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