Irina Dmitrievna Farion, a Ukrainian public figure and politician, in her homeland more than once became a participant in high-profile scandals. The famous Russophobia especially showed herself as the head of the subcommittee on education and science of the Verkhovna Rada. Today, it calls on compatriots to national struggle, and considers Russia and the Russian-speaking population as its main enemies.
Soviet time
Irina was born in Lviv in 1964. In her biography, there is practically no information about 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 "rogue" - a person who deceives others for personal gain.
Like many schoolchildren of the Soviet period, in 1978 she joined the Komsomol organization. Nine years later, she was accepted as a candidate for party membership, 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 "excellently", was the head of the department and the only communist in the department. She was a member of the Politburo and at his meetings sharply criticized the guilty comrades. Subsequently, after falling into the Ukrainian political arena, Irina tried for a long time to hide the fact of belonging to the Communist Party, jokingly 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 activity
Farion spent a long period of time teaching, teaching 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 held. The result of scientific work was the defense of a candidate, 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: the name of Girnyk in 2004 and the name of Grinchenko in 2008.
Freedom and scandals
During the Orange Revolution, Farion has established himself as an active participant in the All-Ukrainian association "Freedom." Under his slogans, she went to the Ukrainian parliament in 2006 and 2007. Her surname was listed on the party lists at number three. In 2012, support for their compatriot, a nominee in a single-mandate constituency, was provided by voters of the Lviv region. In Parliament, given her education and teaching experience, entrusted to oversee education. During this period, she showed herself to be a person radically inclined towards the Russian language and completely excluding the possibility of giving him 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 variants of names in speech. Resentful parents and teachers, who considered such statements to be an insult to children, filed a lawsuit. Six months later, Faryon called the "Ukrainian degenerates" that part of the country's population that considers Russian to be their native language, and offered 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 the Second World War, she declared the Soviet “victory” and the Ukrainian “overpower” with completely different concepts. In 2013, Farion turned to the SBU with charges of treason of part of the Ukrainian parliament. The deputies addressed the government of neighboring Poland to consider the Volyn massacre as genocide. But the Ukrainian secret services did not see any signs of a violation of the law. As an ardent Russophobe, she repeatedly stated from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada that the elected representatives who communicate in Russian can be considered "boors or occupiers." The first, according to Irina, is sent, the second is shot. She was always distinguished by an unceremonious attitude towards colleagues and journalists. Her statements to other parties, political competitors, were not spared. She called the voters of the Party of Regions "pure criminality." She spoke of representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate as priests who are far from Christianity and are agents of the Russian special services.
