Viacheslav Chornovil is anUkrainian politician and journalist born in1936. He started studying journalism at the University ofKiev in the 1950s, which he had to interrupt because he had too many fierce political ideas. He eventually completed his studies but was not admitted to further studies, so he started working as a construction worker. Later, he worked for severalnewspapers but this did not always go smoothly because his controversial ideas did not go down well with everyone. He was put in prison for not supporting a lawsuit from one of his bosses and later also for his own journalistic work thatalso involved an exile in Siberia. During these prison periods he also regularly participated in protests and hunger strikes. Towards the end of the 1980s, his political views only grew stronger and he became a co-founder and signatory for theindependence of Ukraine. He also co-founded the pro-independence Popular Rukh party. Today he is still a symbol of the struggle for the independence of Ukraine.
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