Whether Farion should be awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine will be decided by Lisovyi, whom she called an ignoramus
19 September 2024 16:47
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A petition with a proposal to posthumously award Iryna Farion the title of Hero of Ukraine will be considered at a meeting of the award commission at the Ministry of Education and Science. This became known from the response to the petition of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal.
“…we would like to inform you that, according to the Ministry of Education and Science, your electronic petition will be considered at a meeting of the award commission of the said Ministry,”
– the response reads.
At the same time, the Prime Minister explained that a candidate for the title of Hero of Ukraine is nominated at the place of work. As you know, Iryna Farion worked as a professor at Lviv Polytechnic National University, from which she was fired in 2023 for making negative statements about Russian-speaking military personnel. However, Farion was reinstated following a court ruling that declared the dismissal illegal. She claimed that she would then demand the dismissal of the rector himself.
In addition, both Lviv Polytechnic and the award commission at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine are subordinated to the Ministry of Education, headed by Minister Oksen Lisovyi. Iryna Farion used to criticise him very harshly and called him “the main ignoramus and plagiarist of the country”.
“Lisovyi was also “handed out” by Farion because he published an order from the rector of Lviv Polytechnic to dismiss her.
“How can I help you, little men… who decided to fight with Iryna Farion?”
– she asked, addressing Lisovyi and the rector of her university, Yuriy Bobalo.
Thus, the decision to award or not to award the title of Hero of Ukraine to Iryna Farion will be made by these “little men” and the people who work under their supervision.
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The murder of Iryna Farion and its investigation
on 19 July 2024, political activist and professor at Lviv Polytechnic Iryna Farion was killed by a direct shot to the head on Masaryk Street in Lviv.
Currently, the main suspect in the murder is Vyacheslav Zinchenko, an 18-year-old resident of Dnipro, who has been detained by police and will be held in a pre-trial detention centre until at least 17 November. The young man has not yet spoken out clearly about his involvement in the murder – he has neither confirmed nor denied it.
Today, on 19 September, he stated that his arrest was desirable for him, as he was being hunted by Russian special services and radicalised individuals on the loose.
The investigation into the murder of Irina Farion is ongoing, but the investigation has not provided the public with any information about the alleged masterminds or other details of the investigation for two months.
Petition
A petition to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with a proposal to award Iryna Farion the title of ‘Hero of Ukraine’ appeared on the government’s website on 24 July and quickly gained the number of votes required for its consideration by the government. The initiators of the petition listed Iryna Farion’s achievements and accomplishments. In particular:
- the linguist launched the project to promote Ukrainian books “From Book to Goal” (2011-2019);
- launched the television cultural project “Greatness of a Personality” to promote prominent figures of Ukraine;
- launched the intellectual and cultural television project “Gene of Ukrainians” on the NTA TV channel;
- she has published 7 single monographs, 8 co-authored monographs and more than 400 articles in Ukrainian and foreign publications;
- it was Iryna Farion who initiated a petition to the Constitutional Court regarding the unconstitutionality of the adoption of Putin’s language law “On the Principles of State Language Policy” by Kolesnichenko and Kivalov on 3 July 2012 in the Verkhovna Rada. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine cancelled the law.
“For more than 20 years of her life, Iryna Farion has systematically and consistently defended the state language and identity of the Ukrainian people, which has contributed to strengthening Ukraine’s national security and the position of our state as a self-sufficient entity on the political map of the world among other nations,”
– the petition reads.
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