Bohdan Horyn (; born in Kniselo,

Lwów Voivodeship Lwów Voivodeship () was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it became occupied by both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in Septem ...

) is a Ukrainian

human rights activist A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistleblowers, trade unionists, lawyers, teachers, housing campai ...

and

dissident A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution. In a religious context, the word has been used since the 18th century, and in the political sense since the 2 ...

. He was a People's Deputy of the first and second convocations of the

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...

from May 15, 1990, to May 12, 1998. His older brother is Mykhailo Horyn (1930-2013), also was a Ukrainian

and

Soviet dissident Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them. The term ''dissident'' was used in the Soviet Union (USSR) in the period from the mid-1960s ...

Biography

Bohdan Horyn was born on February 10, 1936, in the village of Kniselo, now

Stryi Raion Stryi Raion () is a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Stryi. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, a ...

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. He graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv State University, Faculty of Philology in 1959. He became a philologist and a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature. In 1988 he was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union. In 1990—1997 he was a member of the

Ukrainian Republican Party The Ukrainian Republican Party () is a political party in Ukraine. Created on 5 November 1990,
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Board and Council. From 1994 to 1996 he was the director of the Institute for Diaspora Studies. In 2019 he won the

Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize (; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since 1961. It is named after the inspirer of Ukrainian national revival Taras Shevchenko. It is one of the five ...

in the category "Journalism".

References

1936 births Living people Politicians from Lviv Oblast People's Movement of Ukraine politicians First convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Second convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Ukrainian human rights activists Ukrainian dissidents Soviet dissidents {{Ukraine-activist-stub