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No. 2 (34) (2020)

Tomos in the context of the Russia and Ukraine information war

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https://doi.org/10.21272/Obraz.2020.2(34)-6-14
Published 2020-11-06
Nataliya Gabor
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Faculty of Journalism, Lviv, Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6306-8326
Yuliana Lavrysh
PhD (Social Communications), Associate Professor, Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Faculty of Journalism, Lviv, Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5205-9309
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Tomos
Constantinople
Orthodox Church of Ukraine
web space

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Gabor, N., & Lavrysh, Y. (2020). Tomos in the context of the Russia and Ukraine information war. Obraz, 2 (34), 6-14. https://doi.org/10.21272/Obraz.2020.2(34)-6-14
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Abstract

After the Revolution of Dignity on Maydan Square in Kyiv in 2013-2014, Russian military aggression began, which was marked by the annexation of Crimea and the beginning of a full-fledged war in the eastern territories of Ukraine. On January 6, 2019, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signed the Tomos for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which testified to the independent vector of development undertaked by Ukrainian Orthodoxy, which has long been under pressure from the Moscow Patriarchate. This event caused a resonance in both Ukrainian and Russian media. The purpose of the study is to find out how the process of granting the Tomos turned into one of the aspects of the information war between Ukraine and Russia. The publication presents the content of Ukrainian and Russian web resources dedicated to this event and analyzes how the media event of receiving the Tomos by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine influenced the internal social dialogue in Ukraine, communication between Ukrainian and Russian Orthodoxy, and information confrontation between Russia and Ukraine.

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