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“A Part of This Country”

03 June, 00:00

A photo exhibition dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian journalists Heorhy Gongadze, Serhiy Naboka, Oleksandr Kryvenko, and Taras Protsiuk was opened May 23 in the gallery of Kyiv’s Bukva [Letter] Bookstore. It was organized by the initiative of the Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union, Bukva administration, friends and colleagues of the late journalists from Radio Liberty, Hromadske radio [People’s Radio], and Reuters Agency.

There are a little over thirty pictures, color and black-and-white: no authors’ names nor titles except for a few photographs where captions indicate who is depicted in them.

Heorhy Gongadze was photographed in an army helmet smoking a cigarette. Serhiy Naboka stood side by side those taking part in some meeting. Taras Protsiuk stood against militia shields (many remember the photographs where he worked in the thick of things in Kyiv on March 9, 2001). Work time and lazy hours — the shots were taken from the very stream of life. Now many of them look quite different to the spectator, like, for instance, the one where Taras Protsiuk was taking a deep breath to blow out the candles on a birthday cake.

In the words of journalist Danylo Yanevsky who “talked and thought about countless things and shared emotional experiences with every one of these people,” they are a part of his personal life, “a part of this country.” Perhaps many of the readers, listeners, and television viewers who have lived through much news, good and bad, together with them could say the same. The death of each of these journalists also became sad news, the kind you simply do not want to believe.

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