Yaroslav Kendzior
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Yaroslav Kendzior | |
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Ярослав Кендзьор | |
 Kendzior in 2005 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 23 March 1999 – 12 December 2012 | |
| Constituency |
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| In office 15 May 1990 – 12 May 1998 | |
| Constituency | Lviv Oblast, Sokal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 July 1941 |
| Party | People's Movement of Ukraine (until 2009) |
| Other political affiliations | |
| Education | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch/service | Soviet Army |
Yaroslav-Petro Mykhailovych Kendzior[1] (Ukrainian: Яросла́в-Пе́тро Миха́йлович Ке́ндзьор; born 12 July 1941) is a Ukrainian journalist, human rights activist, and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 1998 and from 1999 to 2012. He was previously part of the editorial staff of The Ukrainian Herald, alongside Viacheslav Chornovil and Mykhailo Kosiv.
Yaroslav Mykhailovych Kendzior was born in the village of Solonka on 12 July 1941. From 1963 to 1966 he studied at the University of Lviv,[2] where he was a member of the Sixtiers counterculture movement.[1] He was expelled in May 1966 and barred from membership in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for being in contact with members of the Ukrainian Soviet dissident movement, particularly Viacheslav Chornovil and Ivan Svitlychnyi. He later studied at the Lviv State University of Physical Culture from 1968 to 1976, and afterwards served as an instructor for the Avanhard sports society. He was conscripted to the Soviet Army.[2]
From 1970 to 1972, Kendzior was part of the editorial staff of The Ukrainian Herald, an underground independent newspaper, alongside Mykhailo Kosiv and head editor Chornovil.[3] During the 1972–1973 Ukrainian purge Kendzior protested against the mass arrests of intelligentsia by the KGB; as a result, his home was searched and he was subject to interrogation, but he was not charged with any crime.[1]
Glasnost and the beginning of the 1989–1991 Ukrainian revolution led Kendzior to reenter politics. He joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1988 and became a member of its press service, working there until 1990.[1] He was also a member of the Memorial society and the People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh).[2]