Person in history

Iryna Farion

Iryna Farion, Ukrainian linguist and politician (born 1964)

Life at a glance

Died: 2024 · July 19

Their story

Who they were

Iryna Dmytrivna Farion was a Ukrainian linguist and nationalist politician who served as a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014. She served as a political member of Svoboda in 2005 until her assassination in 2024. She was a professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language at Lviv Polytechnic's Institute of Humanitarian and Social Sciences.

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Iryna Farion appears on our July 19 calendar for 2024 as a death entry.

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July 19 2024.

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