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Henry M. Robert

KYIV PAYS TRIBUTE TO A WOMAN HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPION YEVHEN SVERSTIUK AND MYKHAILO HORYN DURING THE MEMORIAL SERVICE

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

Mass was celebrated at the Church of Dmytro Solunsky in memory of Nina Strokata-Karavanska, a noted Ukrainian human rights activist, one of the founders of the Republican Christian Party and Helsinki Group who passed away in Baltimore (US), aged 72.

Born in Odesa, she received professional training as a microbiologist and then she met Sviatoslav Karavansky her future husband and dissident critic who would later receive a 25-year term in a Soviet prison camp on charges of “Ukrainian nationalist activities.” She plunged into a campaign to liberate her husband and received four years for “anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation.” Pressed by the world public, the Soviet authorities released the couple and allowed them to leave the evil empire.

Mykhailo Horyn, one of the RCP leaders, told The Day’s Tetiana Shulhach that the service for the dead was attended by Republican Christians, Social Democrats from the United States, prominent Ukrainian literati Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska and Yevhen Sverstiuk, to mention but a few.

Photo by Volodymyr Rasner,The Day

 

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