. The state Duma plans to appeal to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, because of the persecution of priests in Ukraine, said the speaker of the lower house of Vyacheslav Volodin. According to Volodina, the State Duma considered the option to transfer to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the message about the illegality of incitement to religious hatred and persecution against the faithful and clergy in Ukraine. Similar appeals have the opportunity to send " in other inter-parliamentary organizations and national parliaments of Europe." The politician noted that the OSCE parliamentary Assembly " it's time to give an assessment to actions of Kiev and in person of Peter Poroshenko ". Volodin has not excluded that deputies will prepare a legislative proposal providing for a special procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for those who have received the detriment of the religion of Ukrainians. The Ukrainian authorities, and among them Poroshenko, stated that they do not wish to interfere in the Affairs of the Church, but doing it non-stop. So, despite the promises the head made from Constantinople the recognition of non-canonical Church in Ukraine, which the Russian Orthodox Church called schismatic. In addition, some of the canonical UOC priests were searched. Kyiv authorities hope at the beginning of January to obtain from Constantinople the Tomos of autocephaly. In Kiev fifteen Dec passed the " unification Council ", which the head of the "new Church" was elected "Metropolitan" non-canonical Church structures Epiphany Dumenko. According to Ukrainian media, the Cathedral was attended by only two messengers of the canonical UOC. the Orthodox Church believes void the canonical value for "Assembly" in Kiev, and the possibility of recognizing the Epiphany in the Orthodox world called almost feasible. <span style="color:darkgray