How an advocacy team behind the Ukrainian Orthodox Church utilized misleading statements, outright lies, and information-laundering techniques to astroturf its way onto MAGA’s centerstage.
Ukrainian infantry veteran, former trial lawyer, ex-GOP.
DEC 27, 2025
Concern-Trolling at the Capitol: UOC’s Advocacy Reveals Itself a Farce
Early last week, an intense lobbying effort aimed against the Ukrainian government was launched on Capitol Hill. The central message of the group behind this campaign claims that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) is being persecuted under a wartime legislative provision, Law 3894.
Any good assault deploys concealment, deception, and concentrated firepower. And this utilized all three: a virtuous message of religious liberty, concern for Ukrainians, and the amplification of an online ecosystem of entities recently created for this purpose. Given its choice of target, having Anna Paulina Luna at the vanguard was a natural choice: her ardor for all things Kremlin (and all things irrationally anti-Ukraine) remains peerless across the landscape of Congress. There was just one massive problem.
The concept of operation for this anti-Ukraine hostility was unique in that it required the one thing Luna is incapable of providing—genuine, authentic concern for the plight of at least some Ukrainians. From this perspective, irony abounds. The only lawmaker who’d ball and chain themselves to this caricature of legitimate advocacy is the same one that immediately doomed its credibility. This initial suspicion was well-justified.
From stem to stern, every aspect of the UOC advocacy was permeated with the irreducible stench of bad faith. The underlying message dramatically misleading and often false on what it said, and more importantly, on what it omitted. The UOC lobbying group misrepresented its the nature of the relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church and the ROC Outside Russia (ROCOR), and by extension, their connections to the ROC. Their spokesperson made statements on funding to Ukraine that directly contradicted her past, very public positions.
While they posture their advocacy as grounded in altruistic concern for Ukrainians, the social media profiles of some of the most prominent, outspoken members of the group are littered with vile Russian propaganda, genocide apologia, and Tucker Carlson’s lies. Instead of condemning Russia’s patently illegal war of aggression, we hear one-sided criticisms of the Ukrainian government and the U.S. as responsible for causing the war.
Beyond the deceptive substance of the group’s message, the manner in which they have cultivated it bears several disturbing hallmarks of the information laundering techniques that typify influence operations. Multiple apparent shell entities with a comprehensive social media presence, amplifying each other while existing under common ownership. A news website that approvingly reports on the spokesperson, without disclosing that she is married to the owner of the website, and that website’s parent company flying a Russian flag outside its headquarters in Cyprus.
I am drawing no conclusions as to motive, nor am I stating that Russia is pulling the strings here. But what I am saying, supported by clear evidence, is that the group behind this voracious lobbying effort against the Ukrainian government is relying on a dishonest premise and is engaging in misleading behavior. Let’s review the statements made, the people involved, and the tactics used against the evidence. You be the judge.
The Architecture of Deception
People and Entities Behind the UOC Lobbying Campaign
Catherine Whiteford:
Ms. Whiteford spokesperson for the effort, who appeared at the podium during events on Capitol Hill. She is the Co-Chair of the Young Republicans National Federation (YRNF) and ran for a seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2022, but lost in the primary.
From those activities to her proud photos with Mark Robinson—the self-described “black Nazi,” of Nude Africa fame—her persona is one of a person well-entrenched in the machinery of Republican politics.1 She styles herself as the Director of Government Affairs for the Society of St. John and San Francisco, which is a single-member LLC registered by her husband in North Carolina, barely a month ago.
Ms. Whiteford has long sought to punish Ukraine. On January 20th, 2025, on her public X account, she identified the election of Donald Trump as a “historic moment” that marked the “beginning of the end for neoliberal godlessness that has reigned in the Christian West for too long.”2 3 She then threatened Ukrainian government, promising “retribution is coming” and used a thinly-veiled reference describing President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “tyrant.”
This wasn’t a hollow statement: she has worked consistently to undermine U.S. assistance to Ukraine, a concrete action that would directly threaten the lives of its people and its very existence as an independent nation. On October 13, 2024, she posted a photo on her public Instagram account of her, husband Ben Dixon, and J.D. Vance, noting that she had personally lobbied Vance to make Ukraine aid conditional on its handling of UOC issue.4
Yet again, on November 18, 2025, on her public X account, she revealed that she has requested, during her formal lobbying efforts, that Ukraine be punished by cutting off assistance that “contributes to the persecution of religious groups.”5 Ever-zealous in her efforts to interfere with Ukraine’s sovereignty, she is also seeking a special waiver for UOC clergy to prevent them from serving in combat roles in the Ukrainian military.
Consider the hypocrisy of that ask: the person claiming religious discrimination is seeking to do just that—to impose a religious-based special exemption that would not apply to Catholics or Muslims, just clergy of the UOC, and to do it outside the legislative process of Europe’s largest democracy. This isn’t about religious discrimination, at all. It’s about imposing discrimination in favor of her preferred group.
She combines these anti-Ukraine efforts with brazen lies about Ukraine. In her multitude of public statements, on her public X profile and as reported in a host of Russia-sympathizing “news” outlets, she has repeatedly claimed that Law 3894 criminalizes the practice of religion—“religion is not a crime.”6
This is false. It focuses the organizations and their institutional links to Russia. The UOC could be operating in Ukraine right now, but it chose to maintain its ties to the ROC over its own country, an arm of the Russian military-intelligence-propaganda complex. Ukraine has similar laws regarding for-profit businesses attempting in Ukraine that are controlled from Russia.
As I explain below in a thorough analysis of Law 3894, Ukraine isn’t attacking the UOC. It is refusing to grant special immunity from a secular, national-security law passed by an overwhelming majority of its legislature, a law which has immense public support.
In these same statements, she also lies by claiming that Law 3894 criminalizes religion. Again, anybody who actually reads the statutory language would know is this a ridiculous claim. There are zero criminal sanction such as jailtime provided for in Law 3894. Thus distilled, the central, animating features of her platform are lies about things Law 3894 doesn’t regulate, and penalties that it doesn’t even provide.
But, of course, dishonesty needs company, and that holds true with Ms. Whiteford. Let’s visit with a few. She has labeled it “defamatory” to link her group’s advocacy with the ROC. Which is odd, because her father, John Whiteford, who helped organize attendees for her recent trip to Washington, D.C., openly claims on his church’s website that he works for Patriarch Kirill, the head of the ROC and former KGB agent who justifies Russia’s genocide in Ukraine as a righteous “holy war.”
Moreover, Gregory Livitsky, a subdeacon at ROCOR, traveled with Ms. Whiteford’s delegation and was directly involved in their lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill. Not as a bit player, but a central figure: visiting the offices of lawmakers, speaking at the podium at public events, and lambasting opponents—all on behalf of Ms. Whiteford.
ROCOR attempts to paint itself as being totally separate from the ROC, but this is misleading, at best. Patriarch Kirill is routinely commemorated during an event known as divine liturgy, which can take place as often as every Sunday, as the supreme authority on religious matters (“canonical authority”) to whom ROCOR is subordinate.7 Ms. Whiteford cannot employ religious figures to advocate on a self-described issue of religious freedom, when those individuals believe the head of the ROC has supreme authority over their very purpose in life—religion—and simultaneously claim zero connection to the ROC exists.
Ms. Whiteford claims she cares about Ukrainians and religious freedom. Yet, a search of her public social media profiles, websites, and advocacy from the date of Russia’s illegal war of aggression reveal a one-sided series of relentless attacks on Ukraine. She has said nothing critical of the murder of over 50 Ukrainian priests and the destruction of 700 religious structures by Russian forces in Ukraine since 2022.8
She has failed to even mention Russia’s relentless, barbaric, and systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity across Ukraine, which have occurred on a daily basis. The mass-murder of families, the rape and murder of toddlers in front of their parents, the execution of POWs as an official Russian state policy, all totally absent from Ms. Whiteford’s advocacy. There is no mention of the kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children by the Russian government. No words about the firing of precision-guided missile into a children’s cancer hospital in Kyiv.
Indeed the only public words I could find, anywhere, across her comprehensive social media profiles, websites, and lobbying efforts is a single oblique statement on March 2, 2022 on Facebook that dispensed equal blame between Russia and Ukraine and contained the familiar Russian propaganda technique of denying the separateness of Ukrainian existence and historical identity. The only time she’s mentioned the plight of a Ukrainian that I could find outside the UOC was the tidal wave of right-wing exploitation concerning Iryna Zarutska, earlier this year.
None of this should be surprising, considering who she surrounds herself with. Her father, for example, refuses to criticize Russia, hosts sermons where he talks about his grandchild being afraid of fireworks on July 4th in the context of the war but says nothing about Ukrainian children in nightly bomb shelters, posts the most atrocious Tucker Carlson pro-Russian filth imaginable, and blames the U.S. and western media for starting the war. Go his X feed, but be forewarned.9
Ms. Whiteford doesn’t care about Ukraine. She doesn’t care about Ukrainians except to the extent they are part of an organization in the UOC that willfully refused to even attempt to cut its ties with the ROC, that collaborated with Russian forces in the occupied territories, and can be used to promote false anti-Ukraine themes. At a time when Ukraine is fighting for its very right to exist, as the separate, much older, and actually democratic nation that Russia is not.
Ben Dixon, “Union of Orthodox Journalists,” “Society of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco,” and the Textbook Information Laundering used by UOC Advocates
Imagine this scenario: Person A is the sole owner of News Website B and Entity C, is married to Person D, and through his News Website B, repeatedly provides favorable reporting on Person D who is the spokesperson for Entity C, without ever disclosing he owns B and C, and is married to D.
Does that seem trustworthy, or deceptive? Can you think of a good-faith reason for doing that? Before answering, let’s add in that such non-disclosure of rampant conflicts of interest violate journalistic codes of ethics and are contrary to the business interests of News Website B. It’s business and reputational suicide for News Website B.
Of course it’s deceptive. Of course there’s no good-faith reason for it. And of course, the example given is precisely what Ben Dixon, Ms. Whiteford’s husband, Ms. Whiteford herself, and the two entities he owns, solely controls, and recently created as LLC’s in North Carolina have engaged in to promote an anti-Ukraine narrative.10
It is also textbook form “information laundering,” a classic disinformation technique often, but not solely, employed by Putin’s genocidal regime in Moscow to undermine the rules-based post-WWII order.11 Let’s review what information laundering is, and how it was applied here to deceive and amplify with respect to an anti-Ukraine message.
Information laundering is “a stratagem used by hostile actors within an information influence campaign. In this process, false or deceitful information is legitimized through a network of intermediaries, who gradually apply a set of techniques in order to distort it and obscure the original source.”12
Two of these techniques include “smurfing,” where an actor sets of multiple websites or accounts to disseminate the information, and “Potemkin villages” in which a network of accounts or platforms that share or endorse each other’s content, serving to amplify and propagate the material.13
Let’s look at the facts of UOC advocacy efforts in the U.S. and see how clearly they fit into this framework, starting with the example at the outset of this section. One tweet starts the roadmap.
Here we have an organization called the “Union of Orthodox Journalists America” (UOJ USA) tweeting about Ms. Whiteford’s press conference and directing the reader to go watch it on UOJ USA’s YouTube channel. Ms. Whiteford is identified as the Director of Government Affairs for the Society of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco (SSJSSF). So who are these entities?
UOJ USA is a single-member LLC, meaning, ownership and management are vested in one person. And that one person is Ben Dixon, Ms. Whiteford’s husband.14 It was registered on June 3, 2025.
SSJSF is also a single-member LLC, with the sole member and manager listed as Ben Dixon.
UOJ lists a website on its Facebook page, uoj.news, where it posts frequent stories about Ms. Whiteford and her advocacy against Ukraine. This pattern is repeated across UOJ-USA’s comprehensive social media accounts, across every major platform. Dixon is listed on the website as the Editor-in-Chief of uoj.news in the “about us” section. The owner, the editor, total control. By outward appearances, uoj.news clearly portrays itself as a legitimate news outlet.
It is anything but. UOJ-USA’s behavior with respect to Ms. Whiteford and SSJSSF violates the most foundational concepts of journalistic ethics. It’s a jubilee of wrong: undisclosed conflicts of interest, lack of editorial independence, audience deception, lack of transparency, just name it.15 Dixon is literally reporting on his wife and his company, through his own website, pretending to be news, and disclosing nothing.
The final layer on this hall-of-mirrors, Being John Malkovich-level absurdity is Ms. Whiteford retweeting these social media posts. None of it makes sense, unless the entire point is information laundering. Viewed from this perspective, everything fits: lies about an adversary, Ukraine, repackaged through intermediaries, using classic smurfing and Potemkin village techniques, to push it into the public discourse with the patina of validity.
UOJ-USA’s Links to UOJ, szph.eu, and the Headquarters Flying a Russian Flag
The content isn’t the worst part. It’s the deeper connections that are far more pernicious. UOJ USA’s webpage has links to other countries along the top. Clicking on Ukraine opens up szph.eu, entitled “Union of Orthodox Journalists,” (UOJ) which has a country identifier for the U.S. that leads back to uoj.news. Both websites have near-identical formatting and layout, and not in a good way.
They very rarely have bylines or attribution for the vast bulk of their articles. Timestamps use the 24-hour format that is uncommon in U.S.-based news outlets. Such practices are consistent with information-laundering operations, where speed and repetition are the focus, rather than trust.
And of course, these websites have constantly attacked the Ukrainian government, but said virtually nothing in relative terms about Russia’s illegal invasion and daily war crimes. Incredibly odd for a news organization based in Ukraine to focus on its own government rather than the mass murderers firing missiles into their cities on a daily basis.
The Ukrainian government has blocked spzh.eu in Ukraine as an informational sabotage network linked to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).16This is based on actual pro-Russia, genocide-apologia posts tied back to the organization, and evidence obtained during raids, not raw speculation. The Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU) found donation and organizational ties to an entity registered in Cyprus called “Team of the Orthodox Journalists (TOJ) LTD,” (TOJ), which UOJ acknowledges is the operator and publisher of its website activity.17
The allegations against TOJ-OUJ aren’t limited to Ukraine, and underscore key features of a hostile foreign influence operation. Earlier in 2025, Bulgarian National Television published a comprehensive analysis of UOJ’s operations in that country and its organizational ties, in a deeply-sourced article.18 UOJ was described as “an international information network that has been spreading propaganda in favor of Moscow for years.”
BNT noted the peculiar nature of UOJ’s website—the lack of attribution on most articles, the absence of an address, or any explanation of the conditions for membership in the Union. The timing of UOJ’s entry into the Bulgarian media environment was also suspect, because it waited until after the 2024 death of Patriarch Neophyte, the staunchly anti-Russian head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. UOJ only did so in the midst of a heated national debate about mandatory religious instruction in schools, despite operating in Russia for over a decade, BNT claims.
But it was the information about TOJ-OUJ that should most concern Americans. Remember, neither UOJ-USA nor UOJ plausibly deny that TOJ-OUJ is their parent company with operational and publishing authority over their activities. TOJ-OUJ’s registered address in Cyprus is a business center that proudly flies a Russian flag and contains a company sanctioned by the U.S. for illegal arms trafficking with respect to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to BNT, based on attributed reporting, Cyprus has also turned into a refuge for fugitive UOC priests who fled Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, and continue from Cyprus to glorify Russia against the interests of their home country. This structuring, involving cross-border incorporation, international donation channels, and domain-hopping are common tactics used by Russian disinformation networks to increase deniability and survive enforcement.
In finalizing this article, I perused UOJ’s Bulgarian website and was met with yet another example of what could be interpreted as information laundering: the 2024 photograph of Dixon, Ms. Whiteford, and J.D. Vance from her Instagram account where she sought to diminish Ukraine funding in connection with the UOJ issue.
Just ask yourself, with everything going on in the world, why would a more than year-old photo of three Americans suddenly be newsworthy in Bulgaria, of all places? (The screenshot is posted below as interpreted from Bulgarian to English). Simple, it’s not newsworthy at all, but it is useful to recycle anti-Ukraine narratives, because the focus is with repetition, speed, and deception, across platforms, not newsworthiness.
While these ties are incredibly disturbing for most, they don’t seem so out of place with Dixon, a lay member of ROCOR according to the UOJ-USA website. His Substack, linked to his public X account, proudly reposts the “Father Joe’s Newsletter – Moving to Russia Escaping America and Western Europe.”
Besides advocacy for moving to Russia, to “escape America & Western Europe” what else does Father Joe endorse? See for yourself, below. Hardly America First to glorify Russia as a glorious haven from Dixon’s own native country, but hey, perhaps the have the “sexual restraint” and “obedient Christian wives” that are missing here.
There are many peculiarities with UOJ-USA. It has unquestionably engaged in information laundering using both smurfing and Potemkin village techniques. Its organizational structure is incredibly suspect. And, there is the powerful circumstantial evidence that arises from the fact it is engaging in behaviors that are contrary to the business interests of a legitimate journalistic entity. I make no affirmative conclusion about who is ultimately behind its activities, to be clear, and the sunlight of time may or may not answer that question.
But, nevertheless, it is important to understand the reality of Russia’s ongoing hostile actions and intentions towards the civilized world, as relayed by General William J. Hartman of U.S. Cyber Command earlier this year:
“Russia appears determined to continue its persistent threats to the peace of Europe and to the global order. Moscow violates international norms with its eleven-year old aggression in Ukraine, coupled with its overt and covert attempts to intimidate Ukraine’s supporters. As with China, Russia’s sophisticated military and intelligence cyber forces actively support its strategic objectives. Russian cyber actors work to subvert Ukraine and divide the Western allies, seeking to undermine them both abroad and internally. In the Russian case, moreover, the Kremlin encourages, or at least tolerates, brazen cyber-criminal enterprises that often serve state purposes against foreign targets.”19
Law 3894 is a Rational Legislative Response Akin to the U.S. TikTok Ban
Ms. Whiteford has blatantly lied about Ukraine’s Law 3894. Perhaps she didn’t even read the statute, but the truth of the matter is that it reflects the rational legislative response to the very real national-security risk posed by Russia’s ongoing ties to the UOC no foundationally different than the U.S. TikTok ban. Let’s refute her lies.
After living under the withering violence of Russia’s criminal war of aggression for over 900 days, on August 20, 2024, Ukraine’s national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, passed Law 3894 by a vote of 265-29. The statute’s purpose is simple: it requires foreign religious organizations that are governed from within Russia to transition their command and control to Ukraine.
This is a recognition of two salient facts: first, that Russia operates as a totalitarian state, where religious organizations have no practical independence from the government, and second, that such entities have been actively utilized by the Russian war machine to commit crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Notably, this concept isn’t limited to religious organizations. Law 2116 has much harsher prohibitions against foreign businesses that operate in Ukraine but are headquartered in Russia or are owned by Russian nationals.
These enactments derive from the sovereign, considered judgment of Ukraine’s democratically-elected political leadership. Their conclusion—that when a nation run as a “virtual mafia state”20 is your invader, any enterprise operated from within its borders is indistinguishable from a hostile actor—is eminently rational. Indeed, the animating concern behind these Ukrainian laws and the TikTok ban is identical, and they operate in the same fashion. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the TikTok ban, and did so during peacetime, when the government has less latitude to restrict freedoms.
It is absurd, and frankly, outrageous to suggest that Ukraine, facing an existential threat to its very existence, with millions of its citizens under brutal Russian occupation, its cities being wiped from the earth, and thousands of its children kidnapped, somehow acted so far outside the realm of civilized norms in passing legislation parallel to the TikTok ban that it is deserving of denunciation or even punishment by the United States.
But that is what the UOC’s supporters are apparently doing, even though many these same people refuse to criticize Russia’s genocidal actions against the people of Ukraine. A few technical points about Law 3894 are worth mentioning before moving on. It has already been upheld by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, it did not take effect for nine months, and it provides for comprehensive due process protections in the form of consultation with state authorities, a robust compliance architecture, and a court hearing concerning any actions taken.
The UOC Falsely Believes It’s Above the Law and has Betrayed Ukraine
There is an even more pernicious lie that has been repeated by Ms. Whiteford and her gaggle of barking seal social media regurgitation networks: that the UOC has “cut ties” with the ROC and that it is somehow the “victim.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
Initially, the UOC has not fully separated with the ROC. It remains canonically tied to the ROC—meaning, they treat, like ROCOR, Patriarch Kirill as the supreme spiritual authority over the UOC. That’s what “canonical ties” means. In stark contrast, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) requested, and was granted, total and complete independence from the ROC, in a process known as “autocephaly,” by the Patriarch of Constantinople. The UOC not only didn’t even attempt this, itself, it vehemently opposed the OCU receiving autocephaly.
There has been a long history of collaboration between the Kremlin and the UOC:
“The case against the Russian Orthodox Church is lengthy. It has ‘long used [the church] as an arm of the state’ according to investigative journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov. That has meant the extensive misuse of clergymen for intelligence and subversion work that even involved the employment of Kirill himself as an informer in the 1970s and 1980s, according to KGB files briefly opened to researchers in the 1990s.
In occupied regions, there have been documented cases of representatives of the ROC in Ukraine passing troop locations to Russian forces, openly supporting the occupation and even enabling torture, according to the investigative site, Bihus Info. In one case a priest from the Kyiv region collaborated with the aggressors during the occupation of his area in 2022, providing information about Ukrainian patriots and keeping volunteers in the basement of his church.
Raids on Church offices by Ukrainian security forces have uncovered unregistered Russian citizens living in Ukraine, a significant amount of cash, pro-Russian literature for use in seminaries, and several people without any legal documents. Polls show 82% of Ukrainians distrust Russian-linked churches.”21
Comparing the behavior of the OCU and UOC in the occupied territories of Ukraine since 2014 is useful in this regard. In Crimea, Russia demanded re-registration under Russian law, acceptance of Russian legal jurisdiction, and removal of Ukrainian symbols. The OCU refused, publicly rejected the legitimacy of occupation, and was met with violence, eviction, and being forced to go underground to worship.
The UOC, on the other hand, did re-register under Russian law, was not subjected to violence or eviction, and was treated by occupation forces as the canonical, proper orthodox body compatible with Russian governance. That is not neutral behavior. It is a legitimization of the occupation and displaced Ukrainian civic identity from the public sphere. This pattern repeated itself, again and again, and was magnified through acts of affirmative collaboration, as noted above.
Under the ROC statute, Section X, paragraph 11, “[t]he decisions of the Holy Synod shall be effective in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church . . .”22 The Holy Synod of the ROC is the supreme executive governing body of the ROC, which, under its own statute, is the umbrella organization over the UOC. It is headquartered in Moscow and chaired by Patriarch Kirill. Under Section X, Patriarch Kirill is who the UOC is to commemorate, the ROC’s Holy Synod has final authority, ROC blesses or confirms their primate, and the UOC is under the authority of the ROC.
The UOC may dispute that, but they have been uncooperative with the Ukrainian government. They refused to supply appropriate documentation, for example, confirming their unsupported statements that they are truly separate from the ROC. Quite simply, the UOC believes it is above the law. In a pluralistic democracy, no religion is above the law. And you know how we know this? Because Ms. Whiteford sought a discriminatory religious provision that would have granted a special waiver for the UOC personnel from serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
No other religion sought this special treatment. Everyone in Ukrainian society, from organizations, to businesses, to religious entities, are responsible during a time of grave national crisis brought on by Russia. No one has special immunity. Law 3894 does nothing to ban religions, but only to require, consistent with the realities of the state of Russian’s mafia-like governance, that command and control of such organization be present in Ukraine.
You be the judge of who you find more trustworthy: the Ukrainian government or the UOC. The overwhelming majority of legislators passed Law 3894, it enjoys overwhelming public support, and the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians do not trust the administrative hierarchy of the UOC based on its collaborative and oftentimes treasonous behavior.
Like all the evidence gathered for this article, the photo of Ms. Whiteford and Mark Robinson was obtained from a publicly-available source: her public Instagram profile. As of this publication, and many months after Robinson’s despicable racist, antisemitic, and bizarre comments became public, the photo remains up.
The terminology she uses here is key. It is nearly identical to that used by Alexander Dugin and Patriarch Kirill, the head of the ROC. Dugin uses the term “godless liberal modernity” and “neoliberal satanism” in his works. Kirill paints western liberal values as an ideology of “godless liberalism.”
Catherine Whiteford on Instagram: “I started following Senator …
This unity occurred as a direct result of the 2007 Act of Canonical Communion passed by ROCOR.
This reporting is based on public, open-source information.
I am not stating that Ms. Whiteford or Mr. Dixon are owned or controlled by Russia. I am providing evidence they’re engaged in deceptive and morally repugnant behavior. That’s enough for now.
Ms. Whiteford’s public website and social media confirms the relationship between her and Dixon.
The Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists, Reuters, would all consider this behavior a termination-level event, many times over. https://www.ap.org/about/news-values-and-principles/conflicts-of-interest/.
The concern that foreign ownership of property, intellectual or real, creates a security risk has been used to justify proposed bills in the U.S., such as Senator Josh Hawley’s Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act. The Act would empower, among other things, the U.S. government to “claw back” property purchased by organizations “affiliated with” the Chinese Communist Party.
The decisions of the Holy Synod shall be effective in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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Important comment from Albert Bonkstein :
Thank you John. The name “Ukrainian Orthodox Church” in your subtitle is official but misleading, because it is actually the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (essentially the Russian Orthodox Church)”. Readers basically need to understand those facts:
1️⃣ Christianity was brought to the slavic people on Ukrainian soil: “In 988, Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv embraced Christianity, leading to its establishment as the state religion of Kyivan Rus. Concurrently, the Patriarchate of Constantinople founded the Metropolis of Kyiv. The Metropolis of Kyiv founded during the Rus-Ukraine Baptism, became the foundational church for all dioceses that emerged in modern Belarus and Russia.” (https://www.ukrainer.net/en/orthodox-church-ukraine-crisis/)
2️⃣ The Russians persecuted the Metropolis of Kyiv and tried to russify Ukrainians through the Moscow Patriarchate (same source)
3️⃣ Stalin first destroyed the russian orthodox church and then rebuild it as a branch of KGB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church). The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church”, which under Putins’s Patriarch Kirill approves the unprovoked and genocidal russian war against Ukraine.
4️⃣ Monasteries and churches of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine are outlets of the FSB storing weapons, collecting information and spreading russian propaganda (https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2025/09/11/7530266/)
Anna Paulina Luna is an evil nazi skank. From wiki :
“Anna Paulina Luna (née Mayerhofer; born May 6, 1989) is an American politician and Air Force veteran serving as the U.S. representative for Florida’s 13th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she is the first Mexican-American woman elected to Congress from Florida.”
“Luna is a cosponsor of the Ukraine Fatigue Resolution (H.Res.113), sponsored by Florida representative Matt Gaetz. The bill would suspend all U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine for the war there and demand that all combatants in this conflict reach a peace agreement immediately.
In 2023, Luna was among 98 Republicans to vote for a ban on cluster munitions to Ukraine. The same year, Luna voted for a moratorium on aid to Ukraine. In April 2024, Luna again voted against the $60 billion military aid package for Ukraine.
In October 2025, amidst the Russo-Ukrainian war, Luna met with Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Regarding the meeting, Luna said that she wished to “foster the relationship and conversations of peace and trade. Our two countries do not need to be enemies. Allies in trade benefit everyone.” After Putin said that Donald Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, Luna praised Putin, thanking the Russian government for “backing” the President. That same year she Luna expressed opposition to U.S. membership in NATO.”
Lies of Catherine Whiteford :
“On September 23 at the UN, President Trump reminded the world: we must defend free speech and religious liberty, especially for persecuted Christians. And he’s right.
Shockingly, Christians are being persecuted not only by hostile regimes, but by Ukraine, an American ally. The government passed a law which punishes people not for crimes, but simply for their faith and fidelity to Christ. Tomorrow, on September 30, 2025, a Kyiv court will decide whether or not to ban and legally dismantle the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the faith of millions.”
https://orthochristian.com/173000.html