Alla Yaroschynska
Alla Jaroschynska ( Ukrainian Алла Ярошинська , scientific transliteration Alla Jarošyns'ka , Russian Алла Александровна Ярошинская - Alla Alexandrowna Jaroschinskaja ; ) (born February 14, 1953 ) is a Ukrainian journalist in Schytomyrin .
Life
Alla Jaroschynska studied journalism at the University of Kiev , after which she worked for a local newspaper. After the Chernobyl reactor disaster , she began to research on her own initiative. Her newspaper (and Pravda and Izvestia too ) refused to print her revelations, but Izvestia, under the influence of glasnost, published a report on her work. She was then put under political pressure, but at the same time her popularity grew. In 1989 she was nominated for the election of the Supreme Soviet and elected with 90% of the vote.
In 1992 Alla Jaroschynska was awarded the Right Livelihood Award ("Alternative Nobel Prize").
In 1993 she became an advisor to President Boris Yeltsin on disarmament issues. In 1998 she was named one of 100 heroines of the 20th century .
Alla Jaroschynska has published several books, the most famous of which is Chernobyl: The Forbidden Truth.
She continues to work against the dangers of nuclear power, especially in Ukraine and Russia.
Fonts
- Alla Jaroshinskaja: Chernobyl classified information. The secret documents from the Kremlin. With a foreword by Sebastian Pflugbeil . Basisdruck, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-86163-062-3
- Alla Jarošinskaja: Lie 86: The secret Cherobyl documents . In: Eastern Europe . Issue 04/2006
literature
- Alla Jaroschinskaja , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 38/1993 of September 13, 1993, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Literature by and about Alla Jaroschynska in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Right Livelihood Award: Alla Yaroshinskaya (Russia) Joint Award with John Gofman (1992) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
- ↑ Bernhard Clasen: Nuclear waste in the North Sea September 12, 2012 (with photo)
- ↑ Uranium from the West On the dangers of western uranium fuel rods in Ukrainian nuclear power plants (23.8.2016)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jaroschynska, Alla |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ярошинська, Алла (Ukrainian); Jarošyns'ka, Alla (scientific transliteration); Ярошинская, Алла Александровна (Russian); Yaroshinskaya, Alla Alexandrovna; Jarošinskaja, Alla; Yaroshinskaya, Alla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zhytomyr |