The head of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic is trying to repeat the anti-clerical policy of the former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on the creation of the "Autocephalous Church," said the head of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. The Bishop recalled that Djukanovic also called the initiator of the bill, by which all the Church property built before 1918, the need to nationalize. Metropolitan Hilarion added that Raskolnikov " is headed by lemetropole, there are false priests, and the state the structure is very marginal support." He said that if support continues, " the Montenegrin split may begin to swell as well as some time ago ballooned Ukrainian ". Bishop said that the Russian Orthodox Church feels obliged to speak out in defense of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC). "We were in the Ukraine through this experience, We know the consequences of such actions, and raise your own voice in defense of our Serbian brothers, who want to preserve canonical Church in Montenegro of the Serbian Orthodox Church," He said. before Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church tried to convince the Montenegrin leadership to stop the discrimination and undermining unity of the Serbian Orthodox Church, because it " increases the pressure on canonical clergy and believers." The government of Montenegro led by President Milo Djukanovic, are in sharp disagreements with the Church and himself the Metropolitan of Montenegro and Seaside Amphilochius, as well as trying to reduce the role of the Serbian Orthodox element of the national ideology. in April, Metropolitan Amphilochius (Radovic) said that SPC, its clergy and parishioners suffer harassment from the authorities. Head Djukanovic said at the beginning of winter in 2018, the leadership of the Republic will achieve energy independence "Autocephalous Montenegrin Church" from the Serbian Orthodox Church. <span style="color:darkgray