Alla Yaroshinskaya is an Ukrainian journalist born in1953in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. After her journalism studies, she started working for a local newspaper where she was known for her critical view of corruption in the political system, which regularly led to her being called to the chief editor’s office. After the nuclear disaster in Chornobyl in 1986, she started investigating the consequences for the local population. With her journalistic work, she exposed all kinds of problems that were kept hidden by the government and the journalism world. Later on, she was elected as a politician in the USSR, where she continued her research in official committees, despite the fact that there was still a lot of opposition from politicians. Afterward, she published several books and articles on the subject, including an encyclopedia that explains in detail the consequences of a nuclear disaster. She also appeared on the international political stage and continued to fight therefore the themes of human rights, free press and the nuclear issue. For example, she took part intheUN women's conferences, the negotiations of the NFPT treaty and the Ecological congress. For these good deeds, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 and won the RightLivelihood award in 1992.
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