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Stepan Khmara

Stepan Khmara
Степан Хмара
Khmara in 2008
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
14 May 2002 – 25 May 2006
In office
15 May 1990 – 12 May 1998
Personal details
Born
Stepan Ilkovych Khmara

(1937-10-12)12 October 1937
Bobiatyn, Lwów Voivodeship, Poland
Died21 February 2024(2024-02-21) (aged 86)
Kyiv, Ukraine
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyNRU
UKRP
Batkivshchyna
EducationDanylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
OccupationDoctor

Stepan Ilkovych Khmara (Ukrainian: Степа́н І́лькович Хма́ра; 12 October 1937 – 21 February 2024) was a Ukrainian doctor, Soviet dissident and politician.

As a student of the Lviv State Medical Institute Khmara was involved in the underground Samizdat-movement that published Soviet Union's banned literature.[1]

In 1980 the KGB arrested Khmara and he was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment in strict regime camps and 5 years of exile for "Ukrainian nationalist activities".[1] In 1987 he returned to Ukraine and in 1988 became one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.[1] In April 1990 this organisation morphed into the Ukrainian Republican Party.[1]

In October 1990 Khmara took part in the Revolution on Granite.[1] Khmara also took part in the 13-day hunger strike that accompanied the protests.[1]

As member of the People's Movement of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party, and Batkivshchyna, Khmara served in (Ukraine's national parliament) Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1998[2][3] and again from 2002 to 2006.[4] In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election he failed to return to parliament since he stood for the party Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch that did not win seats.[1][5]

In 2004 Khmara was one of the faces of the Orange Revolution that supported Viktor Yushchenko.[1]

Khmara died on 21 February 2024, at the age of 86.[6] On 25 February 2024 Khmara's public funeral procesion was held on Kyiv's main square Maidan Nezalezhnosti.[1] He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Dissident and politician Stepan Khmara was bid farewell in Kyiv". Suspilne (in Ukrainian). February 25, 2024. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  2. ^ "Народні депутати України 1-го скликання (1990-1994)". Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian).
  3. ^ "Народні Депутати України 2-го скликання (1994-1998)". Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 3 June 2011.
  4. ^ "Народні Депутати України 4-го скликання (2002-2006)". Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch profile". Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  6. ^ "Помер екснардеп, Герой України Степан Хмара". konkurent.ua (in Ukrainian). 21 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Khmara