Zelenskyy awards lifetime stipends to three Ukrainians persecuted for human rights activities

We are talking about Nikolai Kulchinsky (Poltava region), Yevhen Rachinsky (Khmelnytskyi region) and Yevhen Rodoslavov (Odesa region).

Volodymyr Zelensky ordered to appoint lifelong state personal scholarships to three Ukrainians persecuted for their human rights activities.

The corresponding decree was published on the website of the head of state.

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We are talking about Nikolai Kulchinsky (Poltava region), Yevhen Rachinsky (Khmelnitsky) and Yevhen Rodoslavov (Odessa region).

• Nikolai Kulchinsky is a graduate of the Poltava Evening University of Journalism. His father served a sentence for connections with the underground. In 1969, Kulchinsky was arrested on charges of slandering “Soviet reality” and sentenced to 2.5 years in a camp. After returning to freedom, he founded the “Ridne slovo” club in Poltava, which became the basis for the creation of the People's Movement of Ukraine and the T. Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society in the Poltava region. He was elected to parliament several times.

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