Ukrainian public figure and politician Irina Dmitrievna Farion in her homeland more than once became a participant in high-profile scandals. The famous Russophobe especially proved to be the head of the subcommittee on education and science of the Verkhovna Rada. Today she calls on her compatriots to the national struggle, and considers Russia and the Russian-speaking population as the main enemies.
Soviet time
Irina was born in Lviv in 1964. In her biography, there is practically no information about her parents, but with regard to nationality, there is an opinion that Farion has Jewish roots. Her surname appears only in Yiddish and in translation means "swindler" - a person who deceives others for personal gain.
Like many schoolchildren of the Soviet period, she joined the Komsomol organization in 1978. Nine years later, she was accepted as a candidate for membership in the party, and a year later she joined the ranks of the country's communists. By that time, the girl graduated from Lviv University and was educated as a specialist in Ukrainian philology. According to the recollections of teachers and fellow students, she studied perfectly, she was the head of the department and the only communist at the faculty. She was a member of the Politburo and at its meetings she sharply criticized the guilty comrades. Subsequently, having entered the Ukrainian political arena, Irina for a long time tried to hide the fact of belonging to the Communist Party, jokingly: "Eagles do not report to hyenas." As a result, she recognized her past membership in the CPSU and explained it as a necessary condition for further career advancement.
Pedagogical and scientific activities
Farion has been engaged in teaching for a long period of time, taught students linguistics. In 1998, she was appointed head of the university commission on languages "Lviv Polytechnic", under her leadership, a student competition on the topic of native speech was organized and conducted. The result of the scientific work was the defense of a candidate's and then a doctoral dissertation. Irina Farion is the author of numerous articles and monographs. Her professional achievements were highly appreciated by two national awards: named after Girnyk in 2004 and named after Grinchenko in 2008.
"Freedom" and scandals
During the "Orange Revolution", Farion established herself as an active member of the All-Ukrainian Association "Svoboda". Under his slogans, she went to the elections to the Ukrainian parliament in 2006 and 2007. Her last name was on the party lists at number three. In 2012, voters of the Lviv region supported their compatriot, a candidate in a single-mandate constituency. In the Rada, given her education and pedagogical experience, she was entrusted with overseeing educational issues. During this period, she showed herself as a person who was radically inclined towards the Russian language and completely excluded the possibility of giving it the status of a second state language.
In 2010, Farion hit the pages of newspapers after harsh statements in one of the kindergartens that children should not use Russian versions of names in speech. The indignant parents and teachers, who considered such statements to be an insult to children, filed a lawsuit. Six months later, Farion called the part of the country's population that considers Russian their native language "degenerate Ukrainians" and proposed punishment for them. In 2012, she initiated the dismissal of a driver from Lviv, who, while driving a city minibus, listened to a Russian radio station. A year later, at events dedicated to the events of World War II, she declared the Soviet "victory" and the Ukrainian "victory" in completely different terms. In 2013, Farion appealed to the SBU with accusations of treason against a part of the Ukrainian parliament. The deputies made an appeal to the government of neighboring Poland to consider the Volyn massacre as genocide. But the special services of Ukraine did not see signs of violation of the law in this. As an ardent Russophobe, she repeatedly stated from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada that the people's representatives who communicate in Russian can be considered “boors or occupiers”. The first, according to Irina, are sent, the second are shot. She has always been distinguished by her unceremonious attitude towards colleagues and journalists. They did not bypass her statements about other parties - political competitors. She called the voters of the Party of Regions “pure criminality”. She spoke of the representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate as priests far from Christianity and being agents of the Russian special services.
How does he live today
Speaking about Irina's personal life, we can say that she was married once. Ostap Semchishin's husband had problems with the law and was brought to justice more than once. Today Farion is divorced, and daughter Sofia, who was born to the couple in 1989, remains a reminder of the former family.
During the parliamentary elections in 2014, Farion did not achieve the expected success. "Svoboda" failed to pass the required 5% barrier, and she herself became only the third in the constituency, yielding victory to other candidates. But political changes in the life of the state gave rise to new speeches of the ex-deputy. While giving instructions to the soldiers of the Sich battalion, created on the initiative of Svoboda, she said that at this moment the ATO begins, and the third world war, which is the beginning of a great victory for Ukraine. Irina supported the murder of the progressive Ukrainian writer and journalist Oles Buzina, calling him "devil's offspring", as well as the death of the Russian post in Turkey, Andrei Karlov, as reported on her social media pages. The media immediately published materials in which Farion's insulting words were called "mockery of the dead." Critical responses to her statements are found not only at home, but also received a corresponding assessment in Russia. Several months ago, the Russian Federation imposed sanctions against a number of Ukrainian citizens, including Farion. The final point in the adoption of this decision was her speech at a Kiev rally with an appeal to destroy Russia as a state, and Russians on a national basis.
