Bob Amsterdam

of the old Soviet Union.

The man in charge of religious affairs is an apparatchik who wrote an anti-Jewish screed 20 years ago.

He's the head of religious affairs.

And by the way- Sorry to laugh, this is so crazy.

By the way, hold on, let me go a step crazier.

He was a keynote speaker at the Religious Freedom Conference held in Washington.

What?

Yes, his name is Yelensky.

He was a keynote speaker

This is a man who spends his life trying to destroy the Orthodox Church and transfer it into what is essentially the OCU, a state church.

He's a keynote speaker at a religious freedom conference in Washington, where there is a happy hour sponsored by the Ukrainian government, where there are men in Ukrainian army uniforms walking around.

This happened in Washington, D.C.?

Yes, a number of times.

And this is all going on while I, on behalf of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, we can't get an interview in any press in the United States.

Censorship exists in this country.

Yes.

And when we got any coverage, it wasn't to cover the outrage in Ukraine.

It was to taint me as some form of Russian agent, a guy who was arrested by Putin, whose friends were murdered by Putin.

criminalization of Christianity that's going on in Ukraine.

And by the way, supported by pastors who are very close to the White House.