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Islam’s two most important festivals, Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr, will become official state holidays in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on May 18, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide.

“We want to build a state in which everyone feels like a citizen of Ukraine. I would like everyone to feel like a full-fledged citizen, not forgetting the history and traditions of one’s own people. We want to support you not only in words, but in actions, at the legislative level,” Zelensky told representatives of the Crimean Tatar people at a meeting where he announced the resolution.

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Jonathon Sharkey

Has Zelensky totally lost in his mind?

Христос воскрес!

"... Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr, there are 11 official holidays in Ukraine: Western Christmas (Dec. 25), New Year (Jan. 1), Orthodox Christmas (Jan. 7), International Women’s Day (March 8), Easter (non-fixed), Trinity Day (non-fixed), International Workers Day (May 1), Victory Day (May 9), Constitution Day (June 28), Independence Day (Aug. 24) and Defender’s Day (Oct. 14).
In 2017, Ukraine made Western (Catholic) Christmas a state holiday in addition to Orthodox Christmas. But Jewish religious holidays are not yet celebrated as state holidays." (copy above)

Well, 3e is learning how to play his Trump cards! All you need do is look at the "state holidays" of Ukraine. How can we claim men and women are equal when we men don't have a March 8 day to makeup for our inequality to the feminists? Then there is the God fearing triumph over what? Jan 1 was inherited from the Godless Empire. That Boy's Club would hardly be celebrating getting a Circumcision (first-blood). The rest are a hodgepodge of sun or moon calendar templates for the occasion of reminding merchants to juggle their holiday stock offering.

Why May 9, the reoccupation of Ukraine by the Godless Moscow Communist Empire? Russia is only an Empire with Ukraine, without they are a by-continental state. May 8 is Victory Day over the Nazi and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 is November 9.

With you freelance journalist style Mr Korniienko would you kindly take a look at this following article. Many of their presentations scare me from both a Ukrainian and Christian scope. With a journalist training from an European Catholic University System, even though your articles are seemingly unconcerned in a secular view of faith based practices or perceptions it might help you see their true motive. From the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church we read:
How From Sheptitsky to Babi Yar - UOJ - the Union of Orthodox Journalists
https://spzh.news/en/istorija-i-kulytrua/35178-from-sheptitsky-to-babi-yar

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