Activists & human-rights defenders

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  • Viacheslav Chornovil speaking at the Pochenkov coal mine in Makiivka, 1990s

    1937–1999

    Viacheslav Chornovil

    Dissident and leader of Rukh

    Journalist, dissident and politician who spent more than 13 years in Soviet camps and exile. After his release he became a leader of the independence movement and headed the People’s Movement of Ukraine (Rukh).

    Human rights defender, Statesman, Writer