Vyacheslav Chornovil

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Vyacheslav Chornovil
Tomb of Vyacheslav Chornovil in the Baikowe cemetery in Kiev

Vyacheslav Maksymowytsch Tschornowil ( Ukrainian В'ячеслав Максимович Чорновіл ; born December 24, 1937 in Jerky , Cherkassy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ; † March 25, 1999 near Boryspil , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian political dissident , human rights activist , journalist .

Life

Tschornowil studied journalism at the University of Kiev , after which he worked as a journalist and literary critic until 1966. He created the illegal magazine “Ukrainskyj wisnyk” and was arrested for “anti-Soviet propaganda” 1967–1969, 1972–1979, 1980–1988. In 1987 he co-founded the Ukrainian Helsinki Association and the Ukrainian Helsinki Group . He spent a total of 17 years in Soviet prisons.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the founding of the Ukrainian state, he applied for the office of president in 1991 and lost with 23.2% of the vote to Leonid Kravchuk with 61.6% of the vote. In 1989 he was co-founder and since 1992 chairman of Narodnyj Ruch Ukrajiny (Ukrainian Народний Рух України ). From 1990 to 1999 he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament, and from 1990 to 1992 chairman of the Lviv District Council. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . In 1996 he received the Taras Shevchenko Prize .

In 1999 the Narodnyj Ruch Ukrajiny was the second largest faction in parliament with 46 members and split in February 1999. At the party congress, a majority of Chornovil expressed their distrust. He then announced that he would found a new parliamentary group with 18 members of parliament.

He died in a road traffic accident , a collision with a KAMAZ tanker lorry at the 5th kilometer of road Boryspil - Zolotonosha ⊙ . The as yet unexplained circumstances of the accident suggest that his political opponents were assassinated. Posthumously he was awarded the title " Hero of Ukraine ". He was buried in the Baikowe Cemetery in Kiev.

His son Taras Tschornowil (* 1964) had been a member of the party his father founded since the late 1990s. Unexpectedly, he supported Viktor Yanukovych in the 2004 presidential election and became a member of the Party of Regions .

Works

  • Viacheslav Chornovil: The Chornovil papers. McGraw-Hill, New York 1968

Web links

Commons : Vyacheslav Chornovi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tschornowil's biography on the website of the Taras Shevchenko Prize Committee ; accessed on September 17, 2016 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Chornovil, Vyacheslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschornowil, Vyacheslav Maxymowytsch (full name); Чорновіл, В'ячеслав Максимович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian dissident, human rights activist, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerky , Cherkassy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1999
Place of death near Boryspil , Ukraine