From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/26/2005 6:41 AM 21.4.2005 13:23 MSK Levko Lukyanenko, former dissident, awarded honour Levko Lukyanenko Levko Lukyanenko UKRAINE, Kiev (own corr). The president of the Ukraine, Viktor Yuschenko, has awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to the former dissident and member of the Ukraine Helsinki Group, Levko Lukyanenko. This information was given today 20 April to the Prima News correspondent at the president’s administrative office.
At the start of the year 2000, the then president of the country, Leonid Kuchma, gave the same award to the former dissidents Mikola Rudenko, Ivan Dzyuba and Vyacheslav Chornovil (the last of the three posthumously). Lukyanenko was not honoured at the time, as he was in opposition to the Kuchma regime.
Lukyanenko was born in 1928. After graduating from the prestigious Moscow State University he worked as a propagandist for the Radehovsk branch of the CPSU in the Lvov region. In 1961 the Lvov regional court sentenced him to death for “betraying the homeland”. Three days later the sentence was commuted to 15 years imprisonment.
In 1977 he was arrested and again sentenced: this time to 10 years detention in a strict regime camp, followed by 5 years exile. This for participating in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and for “bourgeois nationalism”. He was pardoned in 1988.
In the 1990’s, Lukyanenko supported the former head of the Ukrainian KGB, Yevgeny Marchuk, in presidential elections. Marchuk had been involved in the persecution of many dissidents.
PRIMA News Agency [2005-04-20-Ukr-20] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/4/21/31910.html
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