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This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Mykolaivna and the family name is Chornovol.
Tetiana Chornovol
Тетя́на Чорново́л
Виступ у ВР.jpg
Tetiana Chornovol in 2015
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Assumed office
27 November 2014[1]
Personal details
Born Tetiana Mykolaivna Chornovol
(1979-06-04) 4 June 1979 (age 44)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Spouse(s) Mykola Berezovyi[2]
Residence Boryspil Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine
Occupation People's Deputy of Ukraine

Tetiana Mykolayivna Chornovol (Ukrainian: Тетя́на Микола́ївна Чорново́л; born 4 June 1979, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a - deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine of the 8th convocationUkrainian journalist and civic activist,[3] and one of the leaders in the Euromaidan protest campaign.[4] She is famous for investigative reports about corruption in Ukraine, as well as for her adventurous direct actions.[5][6][7] In 2014, she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada.

On 25 December 2013, Chornovol was the victim of a much published and condemned severe beating.[4][5][8][9][10]

Currently she is a member of the parliamentary faction of the party "People's Front",[11] also member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on national security and defense.[12] Deputy Chairman of the Interim Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on investigation of the theft of public funds in 2011-2014 when providing services of collecting hazardous hexachlorobenzene waste in Kalush district, Ivano-Frankivsk region ; Deputy Member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization;[13] member of the inter-parliamentary relations with China.

Biography

Tetiana Chornovol was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.[14] Her parents come from Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine.[15] Currently she lives in the Kiev suburb of Hora located in Boryspil Raion.[14]

She began her activities at the age of 16, when she started to lead the"Question of the week" heading in "Companion" newspaper.

From 1998 to 2001 Chornovol was the head of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Information Center in Kiev, which was created with the assistance of Aslan Maskhadov. In 2000 she published several reports from Chechnya.

From 2001 to 2004 she led the "Theme of the week" heading in the "Peak" magazine.[16]

In 2001 she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Kyiv International Institute of Linguistics and Law.[17]

Was published in the edition "Explorer" and worked as a reporter there from 2005 to 2009.[18] Than she began to work in the investigative journalism. After the Orange Revolution she began to write about corruption.

In 2006, she began an investigation of the residence "Mezhyhiria”.[19]

On March 30, 2007 uгkrainian deputy, Rinat Akhmetov sued the online edition Obozrevatel in the High Court of Justice in London for publishing false information about his youth in a series of her articles. In early 2008, a lawsuit was granted in absentia, because none of the defendants did not appear. In June 2008, the same court awarded damages to the plaintiff in the amount of $100 thousands. The newspaper said it was not invited or informed of the date of the court hearing.[20] Moreover, according to the newspaper, the decision of British judges are not legitimate in Ukraine.[21]

release from the university (Tatiana Chornovol - first on the left in the top row)

Since 2009, Tetiana Chornovol publishes articles in journals "Leviy Bereh" and "Ukrains`ka Pravda».[22][23]

Since 2010 - Kyiv Institute of Management, editor of the online newspaper Lb.ua. A member of the public movement Stop Censorship.[16]

Social and political protests

"Ukraine without Kuchma"

At the age of 17 Tetiana Chornovol participated in the protests of The Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence, later she became the press secretary of the organization (as a volunteer).[24] In one of the protests "Ukraine without Kuchma», to protest against the detention of members of the UNA-UPSD, along with her friend chained themselves to the rails at the train station in Kiev. When, after the campaign "Ukraine without Kuchma" UNA-UPSD decided to negotiate with the authorities Chornovol regarded it as a "betrayal of principles" and left the organization.[19]

"Yanukovych, language is your sentence"

campaign against the language law

On August 1, 2012, the day after the Chairman of Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn signed the law "On principles of state language policy" and sent it to the President of Ukraine, Tatyana Chornovol made a sign on the road near the residence of Victor Yanukovych Mezhyhiria "Yanukovych , language is your verdict. Do not sign! "Then she was detained by traffic police and sent to the police department in Vyshgorod.[25] The case was handed over to the court, she was incriminated in Article 173 - minor hooliganism. The same day, the court acquitted the journalist.[26] Although the Court saw no violations in Tetiana Chornovol 's protest, the writing on the pavement were erased the same day, by unidentified persons. This law was still accepted, but it was later canceled - on February 23, 2014 during the "revolution of dignity."

"Mezhyhiria"

On August 24, 2012, at about 2PM Tetiana Chornovol crept into the territory Mezhyhirya, where she stayed for about three hours until she was arrested by the security. During this time, the journalist managed to make a few photos of the residence published later in the network.[27] The protest was to demonstrate that "fences is nothing, no fence can protect Ukraine enemies from angry people».[28]

"City council"

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on the balcony of the Kyiv City State Administration

On August 16, 2013 together with Igor Lutsenko, Yegor Sobolev, Alexander Marchenko and Alexis Herman (initiative "Volya") Tatyana Chornovol came to the city council session hall in protest of the planned on August 19 session of the city council, which term expired on June, 2. Four other activists were arrested and sentenced to administrative arrest for 5 days.[29] Tetiana Chornovol stayed on the cornice of city council until she was removed by the MOE officials.[30] Because of that Tetiana Chornovol was fined twice: for 130 UAH for disobeying police [31] and 113 UAH for hooliganism.[32]

"Sanctions against the OJSC" Oil company "Rosneft"

On January 18, 2016 Tatiana Chornovol, along with her colleagues had registered a draft resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the implementation of sanctions against OJSC " Oil company "Rosneft" and its subsidiaries in Ukraine.[33]

From 19th to 23th January 2016, with the support of the patriotic public, Tatiana Chornovol held explanatory media campaigns regarding informing the public about the network of gas stations of OJSC " Oil company "Rosneft": " "Tyumen Oil Company" ","Golden cheetah"," Formula" "Smile". Rosneft is 70% owned by Russian state and considered to finance war in Donbas region.[34] The campaigns claimed, that EU, USA and Canada had imposed sanctions against Rosneft, while Ukraine provided possibilities for the aggressor to hold business on its territory

"Onishchenko-Kadyrov pay the rent - 1,5 billion UAH!"

On February 8, 2016 near the building of The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Tetiana Chornovol held a protest near initiated by the deputy Sergei Kaplin "Maidan of ordinary people against Yatsenyuk tariffs" under the slogan "Onishchenko, pay the taxes to the budget, not to Kaplin." It became known that deputy Oleksandr Onishchenko-Kadyrov, who is considered to finance the abovementioned "Maidan", tried to negotiate with the "People's Front" demanding to "stop Chornovol" and offered to stop the "Maidan" protest near the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine [35]

According to T.Chornovol "He just does not understand that if you have sacrificed a lot for the country (Ukraine), you will not forgive if it will be robbed. Therefore, no agreements can be made. My only requirement to Onishchenko, is that he must pay half a billion UAH to the budget. After all, those half a billion should go to public subsidies to pay for gas. That is why, if that tariff protest is indeed for fair prices, it would be honest to write on their posters - "Onishchenko-Kadyrov pay the rent - 1,5 billion UAH!" [36]

Politics

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at the checkpoint under the Mariupol

Tetyana Chornovil was a candidate to Parliament in 2012 parliamentary elections by majoritarian electoral district № 120 (Horodok, Mostiska areas of Sambir district, Lviv region). She was launched by the party All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland».[37] Tatiana Chornovol came second in the election, losing Yarovlav Dubnevych.[38]

On March 5, 2014 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has appointed her as the head of Ukrainian government's National Anti-Corruption Committee.[39]

On September 3, 2014 she resigned from the post, because of the failure of several anti-corruption initiatives.[40]

On September 10, 2014 Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov appointed Tatyana Chornovol as his staff advisor.[41]

From September 2014 she is a member of battalion "Azov».[42]

On September 10, 2014, together with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko, former National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Secretary Andriy Parubiy, deputies Vyacheslav Kirilenko and Lily Grinevich entered the political council of the party "People's Front" led by Prime Minister Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov.[16]

At the early parliamentary elections in 2014 was elected as a deputy of Ukraine as a member of "People's Front" party being second on the party list.

Provocation

Сertificate from a mental hospital

Sharia post with an apology

When Tetiana Chornovol began to run for deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from District 120, a journalist Andrew Shariy writes an article called " Tetiana Chornovol: heroism or diagnosis?», which had a picture of a certificate from a mental hospital, according to which T.Chornovol has certain mental disorders.

On September 4, 2012, appears an article in which A.Shariy makes exuses on the official page in the social network «Facebook»: «Even the old woman can make mistakes» [43] and an article of A. Chalenko "Shariy makes excuses for Tetiana Chornovol and name the police officer which showed him this fake",[44] where Shary apologizes for fake "Help" and indicates allegedly the person who slipped him the fake news.

It seemed that the incident would be exhaustive and closed. But on September 10, 2012, an article titled Oles Buziny " Tetiana Chornovol will be not be charged for anything, because she got the certificate from the psychiatrist.",[45] which already featured with the new certificate with the revised "flaws" on shariyskiy one concerning the name, Mrs. Chornovol autobiography, residence, stamp of regional hospital has been replaced by municipal in order to match the text, which was written in MKPNL №1.

Paint

On September 13, 2012 the journalist was doused with a bucket of green paint by an unknown young man when he came out of the elevator on the 6th floor in the entrance of her house in Lviv. According to the neighbors, the man was waiting for Tetiana near the entrance of the house for three days. According to Tetiana, this provocation could be made both by local rivals in the election to Parliament in 2012, and by the poltics of the central authorities.[46] A week before the unknown have wripped the tires of her car.

Leaflets and beating in 2012

During 2012-2013 according to the journalist, its e-mail was repeatedly broken for attempts of fraud distribution and to extract some photos.[47]

On October 6, 2012 Tetiana Chornovol was beaten in her constituency while trying to find out the origin of counterfeit cards on its behalf. Leaflets calling for funds to support her, where she was given unknown account spread. According to Tetiana Chornovol, about 100 thousand copies of those leaflets were printed.[48]

Loss of a car

On June 6, 2013 after the protesr under the Viktor Yanukovych's house in "Mezhyhiria" Police took away the car of Chornovol. Literally: "On the Journalist Day, I went to the traditional journalistic celebrating near the residence" Mizhhiria "and lost the car.[49] The car was taken by the police and for several days it was "closed" at the impound lot in Vyshgorod. The car was in fact stolen, because I was not even close when the tow truck took away my car from its parking place, next to the village cemetery where my grandfather is buried ».[50]

An attempt of assassination on 25 December 2013

On the night from 24 to 25 December 2013, during the Euromaidan events, Tetiana Chornovol was brutally beaten by two unknown people. This happened after Chornovol was shooting houses of the Minister of internal affairs Vitaliy Zakharchenko and Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka. When shooting Pshonka`s house, she was followed by "berkutivtsi" (police).[51]

According to police, the beating occurred after Tetiana Chornovol 's car was pressed and stopped by another car.[52] According to Tetiana, the two men smashed the window of the car, she jumped out of the car and began to run away, but she was caught up and then severely beaten. After hospitalization Ministry of Health officially estimated her condition as medium severity. The first operation was scheduled on December 28.[53]

Deputy Serhiy Pashinsky in his commentary to Public TV, said: "She was tracked electronically, and it can only do our special services. She was followed, intercepted and blocked. It was a special operation held by bandits». A few days before beating Tetiana Chornovol reported that the Security Service of Ukraine had a warrant for her arrest.[54]

The incident with beating Tetiana Chornovol gained wide publicity. The President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych personally instructed the Minister of internal affairs Vitaly Zakharchenko to take all necessary measures to investigate the beating of the journalist immediately.[55] The organization "Reporters without Borders" announced its own investigation of the crime.[56] The US State Department expressed concern about the violence and intimidation against activists and journalists of Euromaidan, adding that "brutal beating of Tetiana Chornovol is of particular concern». On December 27, Tetiana Chornovol was visited by the ambassadors of France, Sweden, Belgium, Lithuania and representatives of diplomatic missions of the USA and Canada.

On December 25, materials of DVR from Tetiana Chornovol 's car were published on the web.[57] The video shows how the driver of the "Porsche Cayenne" was pushing the car with the registrar and tries to stop it. Passengers of «Porsche Cayenne» were young men in sportswear. As it turned out, the «Porsche Cayenne» was registered on citizen Khramtsov Alexander Vladimirovich.[58] Soon it was reported that two months before the incident Khramtsov sold his car to his close friend.

The Police have opened a criminal proceedings against the guilty. It arrested the owner of the car and three more suspected [52][59]

On January 7, 2014 in an interview on Hromadske.TV Tetiana Chornovol said the attack took place by the order of the President Viktor Yanukovych.[60]

In February 2014, in the residence of former President Yanukovych in Mezhyhiria was found a personal dossier of Tetiana Chornovil and notes of the head of the Security Service of the President of Ukraine Kostyantyn Kobzar with different records that may indicate the direct involvement of Yanukovych to beating of the journalist.[61]

Critics

Button pushing

On May 21, 2015 Tetiana Chornovol violated rules and voted instead of her colleague Elena Ledovskikh during the vote on the draft law №1912 "On Amendments to Section XX" Transitional Provisions "of the Tax Code of Ukraine regarding peculiarities of taxation importation and distribution of vehicles equipped with electric motors". Later Chornovol said that she did it on purpose. " Let's say, the fuel and energy lobby was against this bill concerning the preferential import of electric cars, and I was afraid that the law will not pass. In fact, new technologies are very necessary for the country ... It was some provocation. I wanted to show the protest against the hysteria, which is open in this regard. Because in reality "button pushing" is a shameful phenomenon, but it is not the biggest problem in parliament. This is not the only problem that should be considered and we should not forget about other problems that really affect the state. I believe that attention should be drawn on the systemic issues of the work of Parliament and, again, I want the deputies to be responsible for voting" - she said on an interview on « 112 » channel.

Private life

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with her husband

Chornovol is a widowed mother of two. Her husband, Mykola Berezovyi,[2] a volunteer fighter in the Azov Battalion, was killed on 10 August 2014 during the fighting in eastern Ukraine.[62][63] Chornovol and her husband met at a political rally. Their younger child was born in October 2010.[64]

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