KIEV, July 27 (RIA Novosti) - Patriarch...

Kiev has been seeking international recognition of the famine as an act of genocide. So far, 12 countries have declared they share the official Ukrainian position. Last year, the United Nations General Assembly refused to include a discussion of the famine on its official session agenda.

A number of Ukrainian nationalist parties say that Russia, as the legal successor of the Soviet Union, should bear responsibility for the famine.