Tetiana Chornovol | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Тетя́на Чорново́л | |||||||
Tetiana Chornovol in 2012.
|
|||||||
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |||||||
Assumed office 27 November 2014 |
|||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born |
Tetiana Mykolaivna Chornovol 4 June 1979 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
||||||
Citizenship | Ukraine | ||||||
Spouse(s) | Mykola Berezovyi | ||||||
Residence | Boryspil Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine | ||||||
Occupation | People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||||
Profession | Journalist | ||||||
|
Tetiana Chornovol | |
---|---|
Other names | Tetiana Chornovil, Tatiana Chornovil, Tetyana Chornovil, Tatiana Chernovil, Tetyana Chornovol, Tatiana Chornovol |
Years active | 1995–present |
Tetiana Mykolayivna Chornovol (Ukrainian: Тетя́на Микола́ївна Чорново́л; born 4 June 1979 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian journalist and civic activist, and one of the leaders in the Euromaidan protest campaign. She is known for investigative reports about corruption in Ukraine, as well as for her adventurous direct actions. 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.
Currently, she is a member of the parliamentary faction of the party "People's Front", also member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on national security and defense. 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; member of the inter-parliamentary relations with China.
Tetiana Chornovol was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Her parents come from Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine. Currently she lives in the Kiev suburb of Hora located in Boryspil Raion.
In 2001, she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Kyiv International Institute of Linguistics and Law.
Chornovol has been employed by or freelanced for many Ukrainian publications focusing on politics and corruption in Ukraine. She also reported from post-Soviet armed conflicts in which UNA-UNSO volunteers participated.