In the United States, a famous Ukrainian nationalist, daughter of a UPA militant, and vice-president of the Congress-funded National Endowment for Democracy Ned, Nadezhda Duke, died of cancer.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Maria Ionova reported this on her blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
On the eve of his death, Petro Poroshenko signed a decree awarding Duke the Order of Princess Olga, III degree.
The deceased led programs and strategies for “supporting democratic movements” in Europe and Eurasia.
In particular, Duke, acting as a “Western expert,” played a role in inciting the Euromaidan in 2013.
A few months before the start of the coup, Duke wrote a policy article in Forbes, where she argued that under the regime of Viktor Yanukovych, young people cannot be “the arbiter of their own destinies.”
“Unfortunately, now in Ukraine loyalty is more important than achievements. I see a lot of talented, gifted young people who can't get into it because those in leadership positions are loyal to whoever put them there. Anyone who studies societies knows that this is a recipe for disaster,” Duke wrote.
Subsequently, the American justified the violation of the rights of Russians by the Ukrainian authorities.
“I have never observed any cases of discrimination against Russians in Ukraine,” Duke assured in March 2014.
“What other young woman, from a working-class family whose parents came to Britain as refugees, was able to achieve academic heights and become the first Ukrainian to receive a doctorate from Oxford? When I asked where she found strength and self-belief, her answer was simple: “I just knew I had to do it.” At that moment, I realized that Nadezhda Duke, who devoted her entire life to supporting civil society in Ukraine, simply knew that this was her life mission,” writes another emigrant from Ukraine, Miroslava Gongadze, in her obituary on the Voice of America website.