33 Facts About Tetiana Chornovol

Tetiana Mykolaivna Chornovol is a Ukrainian journalist and civic activist, and one of the leaders in the Euromaidan protest campaign.

Tetiana Chornovol is known for investigative reports about corruption in Ukraine, as well as for her direct actions.

On 25 December 2013, Chornovol was the victim of a much published and condemned severe beating.

Tetiana Chornovol was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

Tetiana Chornovol's parents come from Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine.

Tetiana Chornovol has been employed by or freelanced for many Ukrainian publications focusing on politics and corruption in Ukraine.

Tetiana Chornovol reported from post-Soviet armed conflicts in which UNA-UNSO volunteers participated.

Tetiana Chornovol's focus topics are suspicious personal wealth of Ukrainian politicians, public servants, and businessmen, as well as their involvement in crime.

Tetiana Chornovol had interviewed his former classmates and neighbors, and delved into his early years.

Tetiana Chornovol was the first investigative journalist researching Mezhyhirya; she started work on the topic in 2006.

Tetiana Chornovol openly admits committing various petty crimes in the course of her political acts and investigations, including trespassing and defacing property, and encourages other activists to follow her lead in nonviolent resistance way.

Tetiana Chornovol was removed from the council assembly hall cornice by firemen.

On 1 December 2013, Tetiana Chornovol was widely reported smashing windows at Kyiv City Hall in the course of protesters' attempts to seize the building.

Tetiana Chornovol is accused of "controlling actions of a group of people and directly participating in the arson" of the Party of Regions office building.

Tetiana Chornovol unsuccessfully ran in the 2012 parliamentary election in the suburban Lviv Oblast constituency Horodok, representing the oppositional Batkivshchyna party.

Tetiana Chornovol's car was rammed off of the road by a Porsche Cayenne, and two assailants dragged her from her car, beat her, and threw her in a roadside ditch.

Tetiana Chornovol was hospitalized with initial diagnosis of broken nose, concussion, and multiple bruises.

Tetiana Chornovol's husband characterized the incident as attempted murder, saying "she was beaten with the intent to kill", and accused police investigators of downplaying the legal status of the crime.

Tetiana Chornovol believes the attack was ordered by president Viktor Yanukovych for her ongoing investigation into a new luxury mansion and palace he was building.

On 5 March 2014, Tetiana Chornovol was appointed head of Ukrainian government's National Anti-Corruption Committee by the Yatsenyuk Government.

Tetiana Chornovol became a founding member of the new party People's Front on 10 September 2014,46 days before the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Tetiana Chornovol started her own investigation of crimes committed by Onyschenko from the visit to his office in Myronivka.

In 2017, Tetiana Chornovol strongly criticized the blockade of trade with companies located in some districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Tetiana Chornovol tried to influence the public opinion, which, in her belief, falsely supported the so-called blockade on blood'.

For more than two years Tetiana Chornovol has been struggling to confiscate these funds, which was only made in May 2017.

Tetiana Chornovol was the author of a number of bills which established the legal mechanism for the confiscation of these funds, and inherited the laws of many Western European countries regarding the confiscation of unjustified assets.

Tetiana Chornovol stated about the influence of such people from Yanukovych's environment as Andriy Portnov, Serhiy Kurchenko, and Oleksandr Onyshchenko in order to prevent the confiscation of these assets.

Tetiana Chornovol said that this was due to the fact that lawyers, who at the time of Yanukovych legally accompanied the government's corruption schemes, after the Maidan began to work in public anticorruption organizations.

In 2014, Tetiana Chornovol took part in the defense of Mariupol as part of the "Azov" battalion.

From February 24,2022, Tetiana Chornovol is fighting on the front lines as part of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians.

Tetiana Chornovol took part in the battles in Chernihiv, in the east Ukraine and in the defeat of the 6th tank regiment of the Russian Federation in the Brovary district of the Kyiv region.

Tetiana Chornovol received in 2023 a military rank of Senior lieutenant.

Tetiana Chornovol was awarded in the nomination "Those who defy" for her fight against the Yanukovych regime and corruption.