30 years of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group

November 9, 2006, Kyiv.

A story for the 30th anniversary of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHL), on the basis of which the Ukrainian Helsinki Union was established on July 7, 1988. UHL leader Levko Lukyanenko talks to a journalist, the declaration of the UHL's establishment, a stand with the founding members of the group, old issues of the newspaper "Smolockyp", a press conference of the participants.

Comments: Ukrainian political and public figure Levko Lukyanenko; UHL founding member, Vice-Rector for Appointment and Mission of the Ukrainian Catholic University Myroslav Marynovych; founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseeva.

Reference: The Ukrainian Helsinki Group is a human rights association established on November 9, 1976 in the Ukrainian SSR to monitor the USSR's compliance with the Helsinki Accords on human rights. It included well-known dissidents, including Mykola Rudenko, Levko Lukyanenko, Oleksa Tykhy, Petro Hryhorenko, Myroslav Marynovych, most of whom suffered repression and imprisonment. On July 7, 1988, the Ukrainian Helsinki Union was established on the basis of the UHH.