Lev Lukianenko, Soviet political prisoner, co-founder of Ukrainian Helsinki Group, 89

Lev Lukianenko, a Ukrainian dissident who spent 27 years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and exile, was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and a co-author of Ukraine’s 1991 declaration of independence, died on July 7 in Kyiv. He was 89. “Death has robbed us of Levko Lukianenko, a living symbol of the … Continue reading Lev Lukianenko, Soviet political prisoner, co-founder of Ukrainian Helsinki Group, 89