Iryna Farion
Iryna Farion | |
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Ірина Фаріон | |
Farion in 2015 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 12 December 2012 – 27 November 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Iryna Podoliak |
| Constituency | Lviv Oblast, No. 116 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 April 1964 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 19 July 2024 (aged 60) Lviv, Ukraine |
| Manner of death | Assassination by gunshot |
| Party | Svoboda |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Lviv University |
| Occupation | Professor, politician, philologist |
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| Website | Official website |
Iryna Dmytrivna Farion (Ukrainian: Ірина Дмитрівна Фаріон, pronounced [iˈrɪnɐ ˈdmɪtr⁽ʲ⁾iu̯nɐ fɐr⁽ʲ⁾iˈɔn]; 29 April 1964 – 19 July 2024) was a Ukrainian linguist and nationalist politician who served as a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014. She served as a political member of Svoboda in 2005 until her assassination in 2024. She was a professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language at Lviv Polytechnic's Institute of Humanitarian and Social Sciences.
She is known for her campaigns to promote the Ukrainian heritage language learning as a part of decolonisation, and for her vocal criticism of Ukrainians who spoke Russian.