On October 7, 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral), the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) was interviewed about the Ukraine by the journalist N. Ivanov, for the Russian daily Izvestia. N.Ivanov What dictates the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s policy in the Ukraine? How did it all start? Metropolitan Hilarion I think it’s a double problem. First of all, global politics is involved in a broad sense. Secondly, the Patriarch