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Viacheslav Chornovil

1937 - 1999

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Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil (Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Максимович Чорновіл; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident. As a prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, he was arrested multiple times in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s for his political views. From 1992 onwards, Chornovil was one of the leaders of Rukh, the People's Movement of Ukraine, which was the first opposition party in democratic Ukraine, and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Chas-Time (Chas) from 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viacheslav Chornovil has received more than 141,825 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Viacheslav Chornovil is the 7,713th most popular politician (up from 8,564th in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 318th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 7,713 out of 19,576Before him are Andrija Artuković, Canaan Banana, András Hegedüs, Mile Budak, Petar Brzica, and Jens Otto Krag. After him are Beorhtric of Wessex, Paul Masson, Theron of Acragas, Petar Snačić, Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken, and Ernest of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 130Before him are Sami Frey, Andrés Gimeno, Félix Miélli Venerando, Carlo Mazzone, Jovan Divjak, and Archie Shepp. After him are Guy Marchand, Bella Akhmadulina, Alberto Spencer, Amos Tversky, Aslan Usoyan, and Carmen Pereira. Among people deceased in 1999, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 76Before him are DeForest Kelley, Maurice Couve de Murville, Paul Bowles, Ri Jong-ok, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, and András Hegedüs. After him are Phaedon Gizikis, Giant Baba, Michel Petrucciani, Peko Dapčević, Victor Mature, and Alf Ramsey.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 299 out of 1,365Before him are Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Sidney Reilly (1873), Igor Shafarevich (1923), and Sergey Kamenev (1881). After him are Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Gregor Piatigorsky (1903), Nikolay Shchors (1895), Yaroslav Stetsko (1912), Eugen Ehrlich (1862), and Rostislav I of Kiev (1110).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Viacheslav Chornovil ranks 91Before him are Grigori Sokolnikov (1888), Denys Shmyhal (1975), Emanuel Ringelblum (1900), Efim Geller (1925), Olena Zelenska (1978), and Sidney Reilly (1873). After him are Yaroslav Stetsko (1912), Eugen Ehrlich (1862), Rostislav I of Kiev (1110), Dmitry Manuilsky (1883), Igor Sergeyev (1938), and Pacatianus (200).