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In Ukraine, at the age of 89, a former Soviet dissident and former MP Levko Lukyanenko pbaded away.
He died Saturday in a Kiev hospital, where he was placed as a result of a stroke, according to media reports. In the so-called Khrushchev revolution, Lukyanenko created the organization "Ukrainian Union of Workers and Farmers" which called for the application of Ukrainian law on the constitution of the Soviet Union, according to the President Ukrainian Petro Poroshenko, who called it a symbol of the spirit of Ukrainian disintegration. withdraw from the USSR. He was sentenced to death in 1961 under the Penal Code for propaganda of separatism, which was replaced by a 15-year sentence
1976. In the year following his release from prison, Lukyanenko became one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, which was later sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and five years imprisonment. d & # 39; exile. Released in 1988, after the liberation of the USSR after the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev. Therefore, Lukyanenko spent the last 26 years in Soviet prisons.
Lukyanenko, who was a lawyer after education, is the author of the law on independence adopted on August 24, 1991 by the Ukrainian Parliament. Several elected as MP, 1992-1993. He was the ambbadador of Ukraine to Canada.
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