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32-517: November 1976 – Ukrainian community groups was established to promote the implementation of the Helsinki agreements. Almost all members of this Ukrainian Helsinki Group were subsequently repressed; four of them ( V. Stus , Yu. Lytvyn, O. Tykhyi, V. Marchenko) died in Soviet camps. March 1988 – Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UKhS) was formed. Since 1989, UKhS has moved to open propaganda activity, promoting

64-759: A Lithuanian) announced their symbolic membership in the Group in 1983. By 1983, the Ukrainian Helsinki Group had 37 members, of whom 22 were in prison camps, 5 were in exile, 6 emigrated to the West, 3 were released and were living in Ukraine, 1 ( Mykhailo Melnyk ) committed suicide. On July 7, 1988, members of the group established and officially registered the Ukrainian Helsinki Association which in 1990 transformed itself into

96-694: A citizen of the USSR." The result of this decision was the persecution of Strokata, condemnation of her behavior in the team and in the administration. Prolonged harassment at work ended with her dismissal in May 1971. As Strokata could not get a job in Odesa, she went to the city of Nalchik , where she was hired as a teacher at a medical school. In the autumn of the same year, she exchanged her apartment in Odesa for housing in Nalchik, and on 5 December, she settled there with

128-685: A psychiatric unit. Hanna Mykhailenko, who was a sympathizer of the Group, was detained in a psychiatric hospital in 1980. Bad conditions in Soviet camps and prisons caused the deaths of UHG members Oleksiy Tykhy and Vasyl Stus later on. In 1982, the 'Initiative Group for the Defense of Believers and the Church' was established, which considered itself a part of the Helsinki movement in Ukraine. Its organizers, Yosyp Terelia and Vasyl Kobryn, were both sentenced in 1985. Some political prisoners from outside of Ukraine (Mart Niklus, an Estonian, and Viktoras Petkus,

160-527: The 1994 parliamentary elections the URP core party obtained nine seats initially, adding three more by the end of the year. During the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party was part (together with Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists & Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party ) of the Election Bloc "National Front" ( Ukrainian : Виборчий блок партій «Національний фронт» ) which won 2,71% of

192-634: The Helsinki Accords , which ensure human rights . The members of the group based the group's legal viability on the provision in the Helsinki Final Act , Principle VII, which established the rights of individuals to know and act upon their rights and duties. Since 1977, the Ukrainian Helsinki Group foreign affiliate began its activities with the participation of Petro Hryhorenko , Nadiya Svitlychna , Leonid Plyushch . Later, Nina Strokata Karavanska and Nadiya Svitlichna began to host

224-485: The I. I. Mechnikov Odesa State University ), and also joined the opposition struggle. He prepared and distributed samizdat in Odesa, and promoted the Ukrainian language . In November 1965, Sviatoslav Yosypovych was arrested for the second time and two days later he was sent without trial to serve a 25-year term. Since then, Nina Karavanska was fighting against the illegal arrests and convictions of her husband, despite

256-517: The Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor" . On 15 October 2012 the party withdrew itself from the national list of the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election . In the election it did not win any constituencies (it had competed in 12 constituencies) and thus failed to win parliamentary representation. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election the participated in 6 constituencies; but its candidates lost in all of them and thus

288-607: The Ukrainian Republican Party . In 2004, the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union was established as an association of public human rights organizations. By the estimations of Vasyl Ovsiienko, the Group involved 41 persons in total. About 27 of them were sentenced by Soviet authorities to prisons and camps directly for their membership in the association. They spent altogether about 170 years in prisons, mental hospitals and in exile. In 1980, for UHG abroad, Nadiya Svitlychna became an editor of

320-515: The "Herald of Repressions in Ukraine" publication. By 1982, most members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group had been arrested: Nina Strokata Karavanska Nina Antonivna Karavanska ( née Strokata ; 31 January 1926 – 2 August 1998) was a Ukrainian dissident , Soviet microbiologist and immunologist . She was a member of the dissident movement in the USSR , a co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and one of

352-553: The CPSU Central Committee, and to the French communist newspaper L'Humanité . The petition stated: "For 18 years, the camp administration has been unable to influence prisoner S.I. Karavansky, and his family is not allowed to maintain contact with him. Therefore, I, the wife of S.I. Karavansky, ask for him to be shot in order to end my husband's many years of suffering and the endless conflicts between Karavansky and

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384-664: The Implementation of the Helsinki Accords on Human Rights ( Ukrainian : Українська громадська група сприяння виконанню гельсінських угод , romanized :  Ukrainska hromadska hrupa spryiannia vykonanniu helsinskykh uhod ) to monitor human rights in Ukraine . The group was active until 1981 when all members were jailed. The group's goal was to monitor the Soviet Government's compliance with

416-631: The Ukrainian SSR to four years in a maximum security camp on charges of "conducting anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." The woman was serving her sentence in the women's department of the ZhKh-385/3 camp, located in the village of Barashevo, Tengushevsky District , Mordovia . Even during her nine-month stay in the KGB prison, Karavanska's health deteriorated, and her condition in the camp deteriorated significantly. In captivity, she participated in

448-558: The administration." Despite this request, in April 1970, Sviatoslav Karavansky was sentenced in prison to an additional term of 5 years in prison and 3 years in exile. Attempts to defend the man in court led to the judge issuing a separate decision, which he sent to the Odesa Medical Institute, "to take measures of public influence against Nina Antonovna Strokata in order to instill in her a sense of high patriotic duty as

480-487: The amnesty. They later married. A year later she returned to Odesa, continued to work at the medical institute. In 1963, she was accepted as a junior researcher at the Central Research Laboratory at the university, where she worked until 1971. At that time she had prepared her PhD thesis. Karavansky resumed his studies at the evening department of the philological faculty of Odesa State University (now

512-458: The fact that the management of the institute demanded that she give up her husband. After her husband was detained, the KGB tried to persuade Nina to denounce Sviatoslav for his actions, but the latter remained with him and did not leave her husband. In December 1966, Nina Karavanska appealed to the head of the camp where her husband was staying, as well as to Leonid Brezhnev , General Secretary of

544-402: The family of Yuri-Bohdan Shukhevych . At that time, a doctor, Oleksiy Prytyk, was arrested in Odesa. He admitted that Strokata had brought samizdat from Kyiv and Lviv , and he and Oleksiy Riznikov had distributed it. All three were charged with anti-Soviet agitation, distributing and reading samizdat, and raising funds to help political prisoners. As a result, on 6 December 1971, Strokata

576-662: The human rights themed radio programs on Svoboda radio. From the very early days, the group endured the repressions of Soviet authorities. In February 1977 the authorities began to arrest members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and within two years all the founding members were tried and sentenced to exile or imprisonment for 7 to 10 years. At the end of 1979, six members of the group were forced to emigrate, while other Ukrainian dissidents were not allowed to do so. Soviet authorities used punitive medicine : some Ukrainian Helsinki Group members ( Oksana Meshko , Vasyl Stus , Petro Sichko and his son Vasyl) were threatened with committal to

608-534: The hunger strikes of women political prisoners. In particular, Daria Husyak, Nadiya Svitlychna , Iryna Senyk, Iryna Kalynets , Stefania Shabatura, etc. were in the camp with her. Strokata spent the last days of her term in the oncology hospital. At the end of 1975, she was released from a concentration camp with a ban on returning to Ukraine. In response, Strokata renounced Soviet citizenship. After her release, Karavanska settled in Tarusa , Kaluga Oblast , where she

640-574: The independence of Ukraine. April 29–30, 1990 – Ukrainian Republican Party (URP) was established in the place of the UKhS. The party was registered on November 5, 1990 by the Ministry of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR as the first political party in Ukraine. A 1992 split in the party resulted in the creation of the rival Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party (UKRP) led by Stepan Khmara . In

672-752: The institute, she worked as a junior researcher, an assistant at the Department of Epidemiology, and then an assistant at the Department of Microbiology of the institute. According to the distribution, Nina Strokata was sent to the local district hospital for two years in Tatarbunary Raion , and later as the head of the medical department. In 1961, Strokata met one of the activists of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists , Sviatoslav Karavanskyi , who at that time had just returned to his homeland after 16 years in prison. He arrived in Odesa after

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704-486: The leading human rights activists in Odesa during the Soviet period. She is the author of about 23 scientific papers in the field of clinical microbiology and immunology. She spoke Russian , Ukrainian , English , German , Polish , and Romanian . She was the wife of Sviatoslav Karavansky. Nina Antonivna Strokata was born on 31 January 1926 (according to other sources in 1925) in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, which

736-531: The members of the committee were imprisoned. They managed to publish only two documents - a statement on the establishment of the committee and a bulletin "Who is N.A. Strokata (Karavanska)?" In addition, the American Society of Microbiologists, among others, defended Strokata, and elected her a member. On 19 May 1972, Karavanska was sentenced under Part 1 of Article 62 of the Criminal Code of

768-647: The national votes and 6 ( single-mandate constituency ) seats. In January 2001 the "National Front" parliamentary faction had grown to 17 deputies. After being part of the National Salvation Committee the party became part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc alliance during the Ukrainian 2002 parliamentary elections . On April 21, 2002 the party merged with the Ukrainian People's Party "Sobor" as

800-539: The party won no parliamentary seats. In the 2010 local elections the party won a few representatives in 3 regional parliaments, all in Western Ukraine . Ukrainian Helsinki Group The Ukrainian Helsinki Group ( Ukrainian : Українська Гельсінська Група , romanized :  Ukrainska Helsinska Hrupa ) was founded on November 9, 1976, as the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote

832-410: The police on 20 November and lay there until 4 January of the following year. On 17 January, the court fined the woman 20  Rbls for this violation, and on 3 February, she was again placed under supervision for another six months. In the following years, this term was extended several more times. As early as 1976, Karavanska became one of the founding members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group , which

864-817: The truth about the national liberation movement in Ukraine, organized moral and material support for Soviet prisoners and their families, and conducted public work. There she became a member of the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In 1980 she published the book "Ukrainian Women in the Soviet Union: Documented Persecution," and in 1981 - "A Family Torn Apart." On 2 August 1998, Nina Antonivna Karavanska-Strokata died in Denton. Strokata published two books about her public work: On 8 November 2006, President Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded Strokata

896-536: Was arrested. She was accused of distributing the Ukrainian Herald, samizdat, and writing a letter in defense of Yuli Daniel . In connection with this arrest, Ihor Kalynets and Viacheslav Chornovil set up a Public Committee in Lviv to protect Strokata, which included Vasyl Stus , Leonid Tymchuk, Pyotr Yakir and others. It was the first open human rights organization in Ukraine. But in early 1972, almost all

928-508: Was founded by Soviet dissidents to promote the Helsinki Accords . She took an active part in this movement, in particular, all documents and appeals of the group were created with the participation of Karavanska and signed. In addition, she also maintained contact with the Moscow Helsinki Group . Only then, that is 10 years after the arrest of Sviatoslav Karavansky, was Nina allowed a one-day meeting with her husband. After he

960-555: Was monitored by security forces for a year. Life in the north affected the health of Strokata. So in October of the following year, 1976, she became seriously ill and was taken to a local regional hospital, where she was discharged at her request in November. This decision was due to the desire to go for treatment in the capital's hospital with more experienced staff. Karavanska went to one of these hospitals without asking permission from

992-612: Was released in 1979, the couple tried to get permission to return to Ukraine, but failed. Fearing another imprisonment of Sviatoslav, who had spent 31 years in concentration camps by that time, the Karavanskys left for Vienna on 30 November of that year. On 11 December, they arrived in the United States, where they settled in Denton, Texas . There Karavanska spoke, wrote articles, told the Ukrainian diaspora and other Americans

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1024-632: Was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union . After graduating from high school, she entered the Odesa Medical Institute (now - Odesa National Medical University ), which she graduated in 1947. In the following years, Strokata worked as a specialist in various Ukrainian cities (including from 1951 to 1952 at the Odesa Medical Institute). After graduating from

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