Glory of Ukraine

Yesterday Nadiya Savchenko imprisoned by Russia pilot and deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament has been released and safely arrived to her motherland. Presidential aircraft transported her from Russia to Ukraine where her mother and sister could not wait to greet her. As well as entire Ukrainian nation and people from all over the world who were waiting for that day for a long time. Let’s hope that this day would mark the time when a country started value its citizen, when its fight for him/her. There were dark times in Eastern Europe when prisoner of war returned to a country and immediately accused for betrayal was sent to concentration camp. A motherland did not want such heroes, hero had to die no matter what. Is it worth to die for your motherland or is it worth to live for it? Live and bring glory to your land, unbroken bravery and endless readiness to serve it.

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Black day of Russian justice

 Dramatic events on the 22 March in Brussels naturally took over the European news space. However, another not less tragic event happened yesterday in Russia: Ukrainian symbol of resistance, Nadiya Savchenko has been sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. N. Savchenko is not the only Ukrainian who goes through illegal trial in Russia. Nevertheless, her story is the most covered by the western media. As she stated earlier, after the sentence she would go on “dry” hunger strike. The sanction list  of individuals involved in the case of N. Savchenko has been passed by President of Ukraine to EU leaders.

A True Hero of Our Time

The result of illegal trial on Nadiya Savchenko is not what the Mr. Putin expected. Instead of showing to the entire world a “cruelty” of Ukrainians killing Russian defenceless journalist, there are  hundred thousands people all over the world who are opposing Savchenko’s imprisonment. The image of Russia (because it is not only Mr. Putin’s who is involved) becomes more as “residence of Evil”.  Nadiya Savchenko became and will remain the symbol of the Ukrainian resistance to the Russian occupation. The symbol of fearless and brave woman combating alone against rusty and inefficient Russian judicial system, with the regime built on fear and ignorance.

pic. from Facebook group: FreeSavchenko global day of support

What stays behind the International Women’s Day?

Nowadays this holidays does not symbolize the women’s fight for the equality and emancipation as it was in the beginning of the XX century. There were some virtually insane ways of celebrations, e.g. one old Soviet newspaper mentioned: “the women have celebrated the International Women’s Day by going on foot from Minsk to Bobruysk in gas masks”…

 In Europe women mostly feel enough equal and independent from men so should this holiday still exist? Yes, because what we need today is more women-leaders. Women who become a great inspiration for other women. There is no holiday that can empower and strengthen women. But one woman by her example can. And today my biggest inspiration is Nadiya Savchenko.

The last Hope for Russian government to save face

Trial on Nadiya Savchenko tightens a noose around the neck of Russian government. Suffering of one person has often the same reaction as suffering of a million people. N. Savchenko vowed hunger strike after she was not allowed for her statement during the trial on March 4th, 2016. The trial has been postpone till March 9th. If she is found guilty, she will be imprisoned for 23 years. The trial on N. Savchenko violates the human rights and has illegal character. Prisoner has been abducted by pro-Russian separatists and smuggled to Russia.

In Ukrainian name “Nadiya”  (in Russian "Nadezhda") is also the word for “Hope”. A face of this last “Hope” is a beautiful and brave face of the Ukrainian woman, soldier and politician.

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“In order to win in this life, you should be a little bit of idealist” - Svetlana Alexievich about Nadiya Savchenko

      Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, wrote a letter, singed and sent her books to the imprisoned Ukrainian pilot, Nadiya Savchenko, in Russia. Svetlana Alexievich called Nadiya Savchenko Ukrainian “Jean of Arc”, adding that “she is actually the person fighting for her motherland, she is the true soldier”.  

Nadiya Savchenko, a deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament and of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Ukrainian pilot, has been taken as a prisoner by pro-Russian separatists in summer 2014 and accused of murdering two Russian journalists in Luhansk region, despite the international condemnation.
Nadiya Savchenko finds the title of the S. Alexievich book “War does not have a woman’s face” ironic: “I am a woman who saw the face of the war” – she says.