Religious Minorities in Soviet and and Post-Soviet Ukraine

[Greg Luloff]

I am currently representing a 56 year-old Ukrainian male in asylum 
proceedingss.  He entered the United States as a refugee in the early 1990s.  
My client's family members were all Pentecostal Christians, and he was placed 
in an orphanage at a young age and then subjected to a series of involuntary 
psychiatric commitments as an adult.  Currently, my client is in deportation 
proceedings, and I am looking for documentation showing (1) that Soviet 
authorities used involuntary psychiatric treatment to persecute religious 
minorities; and (2) that persecution of religious minorities still continued in 
post-Soviet Ukraine.  Also, any documents discussing Soviet persecution of 
Pentecostal Christians in general would be very helpful.

If anyone has any expertise in this area I would greatly appreciate your 
insights.

Thank you,
Greg

gluloff at hotmail.com

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