Foreign Affairs committee  As I said before, there are three branches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. In Crimea, which is a large territory, there are only two Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of the Kyivan Patriarchate, which is—if I might simplify it—a pro-western-oriented democratic church. However, the ma

Foreign Affairs committee  I was a soldier so I don't know how valuable I am from a tactical standpoint, but yes, I do believe it was planned. It was planned because he told Yanukovych.... By giving the money and please remember that the people who were in power in Ukraine—prosecutor general, president—whe

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry. Could you repeat the last question? I didn't hear.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll start answering. Mr. Czolij is more astute when it comes to the politics and the polity there. When you think about the makeup of Crimea, I'm not quite sure of the numbers, but over 50% of the people consider themselves to be Russian. Then another 20%, or close to 20%, woul

Foreign Affairs committee  Right now it's overwhelming fear. Number one, there is an information vacuum in Ukraine. Mr. Czolij was talking about where else Canada can help. Hopefully the situation will be resolved quickly, or at least painlessly, for all sides without the sacrifice of human life. But rea

Foreign Affairs committee  On Sunday we had more people than we had at Easter for Pascha. We had so many people coming in, and we were just praying for victims, for those who had died. You know, the petitions that you have in the Orthodox liturgy are very simple and say, you know, for the peace in the worl

Foreign Affairs committee  I thank you for your question. Actually, Mr. Goldring has asked me that, and I failed to mention it as I was not really prepared in a very systematic sense. As for the church in Ukraine, there is the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which has about three million to five million

Foreign Affairs committee  Mentioning Turkey, what I wanted to say is that the lady who left before me had mentioned it to me. She actually mentioned it before, but she mentioned to me that she lived in Crimea for three years and she analyzed that aspect. She is a political science major, Dr. Lada Roslyc

Foreign Affairs committee  As I was driving from the church to here, I actually was on the phone, a speakerphone, and I talked to two people. One of them is actually from Crimea itself and said there was a tremendous fear because there are announcements of the fact that action will start in a couple of hou

Foreign Affairs committee  I totally agree with what Eugene has said. Honourable Senators, thank you very much for inviting me here today. As I said before, I totally agree with what Mr. Czolij has mentioned. But I'd like to have my presentation approach it from a little bit different standpoint. I hav

Foreign Affairs committee  That's perfect.