UKRAINIAN POLICE FORMATIONS AND SPECIAL SERVICES TO RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Abstract

The main aim of this article is to show the role of Ukrainian police and special services in religious conflicts. According to the author the religious conflictis the situation in which at least one party to a dispute is defined through the prism of its relationship to religion. Ukraineis one of those post-Soviet countries, where–due to nothing unhampered freedom of religion–religious conflicts are the most. In view of the size of the paper we present only the most important of them. The author notes that the Ukrainian police and the Security Service of Ukraine are not contracting safeguard security and public order, but antagonizes parties to the dispute, andevenactors are considered conflicts. Many hope related to improving the image associated with the reform of the authorities responsible for internal security of Ukraine.