. The security service of Ukraine opened a Case under the criminal code about the shortage of cultural property in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. About it is notified on the Internet representation of the service. As specified in the message, Employees of SBU who participated in the validation of the monastery, found the " missing ten items of cultural value." The case was initiated in accordance with paragraph " Misappropriation, embezzlement of property or taking to them by abuse of official position ". first about the disappearance of the monastery several valuable icons said the head of the Ministry of culture Yevhen Nyshchuk. According to his statement, it revealed for the first 30 years, the investigation carried out by his Ministry. in the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Minister called a provocation, noting that he showed no evidence. Kiev-Pechersk Lavra - one of the first since the founding of monasteries of Kievan Rus. In 1990 it has made to the world heritage List of UNESCO. Currently, the lower monastery is in the jurisdiction of the canonical UOC, and the Upper run of the Kiev-Pechersk historical and cultural reserve. The question of Church property in Ukraine escalated amid Church opposition. In mid-December at the initiative of the Kiev authorities non-canonical Church structures, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church held a " unification Council ", which formed a new "Orthodox Church of Ukraine," and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople at the beginning of January gave her the Tomos of autocephaly. Ukrainian authorities have stated that they will not interfere in the Affairs of the Church, but in reality doing it non-stop. So, the SBU came with searches to the Abbot of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Metropolitan Paul, against which brought the Case under the item " Violation of equality of people depending on their racial, racionalnosti, religious belief, disability and other grounds ". In addition, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was deprived of the right of use of another popular Lavra Pochayiv Holy Dormition, which the government returned part of the Kremenets-Pochayiv reserve. Also frequent message about seizing the temples of the canonical Church. in the Russian Orthodox Church told that all these actions show of intimidation by the authorities of the Ukrainian believers. <span style="color:darkgray