title: Equivocal memory
abstract: With the emergence of the Ukrainian state in 1991, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church retained its unity with the Moscow Patriarchate but faced a definite challenge. Patriotic public opinion urged the Church to break ties with the former imperial center, while a significant number of its believers and clergy were people who still supported subordination to Moscow. This challenge has recently become particularly acute in the context of the annexation of Crimea and the armed conflict in Donbas. In resp