1. Myroslav Frankovych Marynovych is a Ukrainian educator, human rights activist, and former Soviet dissident, and longtime vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.
12 Facts About Myroslav Marynovych
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The co-founder of Amnesty International Ukraine, Marynovych was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
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Myroslav Marynovych was born on 4 January 1949, in the village of Komarovychi of Staryi Sambir Raion of Drohobych Oblast.
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Myroslav Marynovych's grandfather was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and his family was very religious.
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In 1967, Myroslav Marynovych began studying at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute.
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Myroslav Marynovych worked as a technical editor for the magazine pochatkova shkola and at publishing house Tekhnika, where he was fired by KGB order.
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In 1976, Myroslav Marynovych met Mykola Matusevych, and became a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
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Myroslav Marynovych married Lyuba Kheina, who travelled from Kyiv to join him in exile.
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Myroslav Marynovych worked as a reporter in the local newspaper, Halytska Zorya.
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Also in 1991 Myroslav Marynovych founded the first Amnesty International group in the USSR and served as its head till 1996.
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Myroslav Marynovych's first published work came out in 1990, titled The Gospel According to God's Fool.
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Myroslav Marynovych has received many educational awards, including fellowships at Columbia University, the World Council of Churches, and the Catholic University of Nijmegen.