{"id":5585,"date":"2024-07-20T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2024-07-20T22:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T16:40:09","slug":"ukrainian-nationalist-ex-lawmaker-shot-dead-in-lviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/ukrainian-nationalist-ex-lawmaker-shot-dead-in-lviv\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian nationalist ex-lawmaker shot dead in Lviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A former Ukrainian nationalist lawmaker who often made outspoken statements defending the Ukrainian language has died after being shot by a gunman in her home city of Lviv, authorities said.<br \/>\nIryna Farion, 60, briefly served as a member of Ukraine&#8217;s parliament for the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party and routinely attracted controversy for chiding officials and military personnel for speaking Russian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has emerged that Iryna Farion died in hospital. Doctors did everything possible, but her injury was incompatible with life,&#8221; Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said in a post on Telegram late Friday.<br \/>\n&#8220;I always say that there is no safe place in Ukraine anymore. But to have such a brazen, audacious murder. The killer must be found,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>An unknown gunman is thought to have shot Farion at around 7:30 pm local time (1630 GMT) on Friday evening, according to the office of Ukraine&#8217;s Prosecutor General.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victim was taken to hospital in a critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head,&#8221; it said.<br \/>\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday he had received reports of Farion&#8217;s assassination and that &#8220;all available surveillance cameras&#8221; were being checked.<\/p>\n<p>All lines of enquiry are being investigated, &#8220;including one leading to Russia,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nFarion was a trained linguist and one of the most vociferous defenders of the Ukrainian language, losing her job as a professor at a Lviv university after saying she could &#8220;not call&#8221; soldiers who spoke Russian Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>She was later reinstated following a court ruling in Lviv, in the west of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Since becoming independent in 1991, Ukraine has made legislative efforts to promote its national language, which was suppressed and often sidelined in favour of Russian during Soviet rule.<br \/>\nUkrainian is the language of the majority of the country but many residents still speak Russian as their mother tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Ukrainian nationalist lawmaker who often made outspoken statements defending the Ukrainian language has died after being shot by a gunman in her home city of Lviv, authorities said. Iryna Farion, 60, briefly served as a member of Ukraine&#8217;s parliament for the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party and routinely attracted controversy for chiding officials and military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}