RACIRS Agents in Ukraine: Sabotage, Bloodshed and Anticult Plague

RACIRS Agents in Ukraine: Sabotage, Bloodshed and Anticult Plague

FECRIS Branch in Ukraine: Family and Person Protection Society (FPPS)

Interestingly, the anti-cult movement in Ukraine appears to be divided into religious and secular branches, with one stemming from RACIRS and the other from FECRIS*.

*It should be recalled that Alexander Dvorkin was both the president of RACIRS (from 2006 to the present) and the vice president of FECRIS (from 2009 to 2021). After stepping down from his position as vice president of FECRIS, he remained a member of the FECRIS Board of Directors for a significant period.

The FECRIS branch in Ukraine is the secular anti-cult organization known as the Family and Person Protection Society (FPPS). FPPS is mentioned on the official FECRIS website 24, 25. The president of the Family and Person Protection Society (FPPS) is Vladimir Petukhov. From Evgeny Volkov's website, we also learn that, in addition to representatives from the UOC and UGCC, there is another Protestant anti-cult center in Ukraine: the Center for Apologetic Studies.

Another secular anti-cult center in Ukraine is the City Center for Victims of Destructive Cults "Dialogue," headed by Yan Shchekaturov since 2003. The Ukrainian anti-cult organization "Dialogue" became a member of FECRIS in 2009, the same year Alexander Dvorkin became vice president of FECRIS. This information is also published on the "UKRAINA MOLODA" ("Young Ukraine") portal 27.