The opera singer died in the DPR. On the birthday of "Myth" Vasily Slipak: What was the opera singer - the hero of the ATO - like and how he died. Slipak loads the magazine and sings, sings...

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  • VASILY SLIPAK. LIFE ON A HIGH NOTE

    This opera singer considered the role of Mephistopheles in the opera “Faust” by Charles Gounod to be his most favorite, which is why he got the consonant nickname – Myth. But he lived a life, although short, but as heroic as mythological characters. He gave the audience the rarest and most exceptional singing art. He was considered a real vocal miracle, and many teachers simply dreamed of working with Vasily in their class.

    Teachers' dream

    He was an extremely gifted opera singer, possessing a subtle and boundless vocal vibrato that drove audiences crazy. It was impossible to understand how such a powerful voice fit into such a slender and young performer. Famous teachers did not even want to classify his voice, calling him unique. In his forties, he was a famous opera singer throughout Europe, performed leading roles in many productions, had amazing prospects, but when the war began in his homeland, he could not stay away...

    Lviv talent

    Born in Lviv in 1974. His parents instilled in him respect and love for native land, for him the words “honor” and “dignity” were not empty. He grew up as a responsible, fair, purposeful and not at all hooligan young man. No one in the family was involved in music professionally, but my grandfather had vocals of amazing purity and power. Therefore, Vasily had someone to inherit his talent from. on his creative development influenced by his older brother Orestes. It was he who took nine-year-old Vasily to the famous Lviv academic choir “Dudarik”. The founder and leader of the group, Nikolai Katsal, became an iconic figure in the work of the aspiring singer. The repertory works of the chapel shaped the taste and worldview Vasily Slipak. He performed works Ukrainian composers golden era of the genre choral concert a capella. Also, as part of Dudarik, Vasily participated in recordings and joint concerts with famous Ukrainian performers. The guys even gave performances at the famous New York Carnegie Hall.

    Not all and not at once

    Surprisingly, having a rather rare voice (countertenor), Vasily did not manage to enter the Lviv Music Institute the first time (now it is the Lviv National Academy of Music). Slipak did not lose faith in himself, he performed a lot, began touring, met many musicians, composers and conductors. In 1992, the persistent young man proved his right to be among the students of the institute and entered the course of Professor Maria Bayko. Under her leadership, Vasily expanded his repertoire with works by Ukrainian and European composers. He always took part in student concerts and demonstrated his gorgeous voice, thanks to which his teachers predicted a dizzying career for him.

    French chance of Vasily Slipak

    Soon creative destiny Vasily Slipak did sharp turn. This time again it could not have happened without the help of his older brother Orestes. In 1994, he went to France to attend a congress of cardiologists. In Paris, he was lucky enough to meet the editorial staff " Ukrainian word" The weekly was headed by Doctor of Medicine, Professor Yaroslav Musyanovich. He introduced Orestes to the composer Marian Kuzan and insistently recommended that he leave him a cassette recording of the younger brother A month later Vasily Slipak invited to one of the largest music festivals in the city of Clermont-Ferrand.

    In addition to his program, the singer also prepared Handel's cantatas, St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion. The young man performed French, German songs and Italian arias in the original language and was awarded the Grand Prix of the competition and the Grand Prix of Audience. In addition, he was the only contestant who performed compositions on native language. His debut in France became a real sensation. Critics wrote rave reviews about the Ukrainian operatic talent in newspapers; his vocal abilities captivated the audience, and famous teachers The Paris Academy organized an audition for him. Everyone unanimously recognized the originality of Vasily’s voice, which put an end to the debate about whether it was worth singing as a baritone and a countertenor at the same time. That's how one competition became a milestone in creative life Slipaka.

    Test by competitions

    After this, he had the opportunity to present his program to the Parisian public. In 1994, the young singer gave solo concert at the French Vichy Opera. That evening works of Ukrainian folk music were played on stage.

    Internationally music festival"Kyiv Music Fest" in the same year, accompanied by chamber orchestra performed Alexander Kozarenko’s cantata “Pierrot Dead Loop”. There were spectators delighted and called Vasily for an encore. At a contemporary concert chamber music this happened for the first time. A few months later, as part of the International Festival contemporary art in Odessa, Slipak again performed this chamber cantata. And again success, the work was performed twice here too.

    Vasily’s talent and unique voice were also appreciated by guests of the international festival musical art“Virtuosi”, which took place in Lviv in 1995. Together with his native choir “Dudarik” and soprano Bogdana Khidchenko performed two roles in the famous cantata German composer Carl Orff "Carmina Burana".

    Leading parties

    He easily performed both folk music and the most complex opera roles. received leading roles in “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Don Giovanni”, “Boris Godunov” by Modest Mussorgsky, “Prince Igor” by Alexander Borodin and.

    But more than others he liked the image of Mephistopheles from the opera Faust. Within concert tour in European countries in 2008 performed with chamber works in cathedrals and ancient palaces, opera houses and drama theaters , the largest concert halls And cultural centers

    . He collaborated with famous orchestras and conductors. No matter what stage he appeared on, he fascinated the audience everywhere with his marvelous vocal culture and unique voice. It seemed that from the first seconds he concentrated the attention of the public on himself, amazed them, evoking a wide range of emotions. Of course, his appearance and constant gallantry helped him achieve this. He was characterized by naturalness, artistry and expressiveness. Despite the fact that he sounded harmoniously in the choir, the soloist still prevailed in him. He skillfully owned special welcome

    vocal performance “mezza voce” (quiet, incomplete sound), which required high professionalism and technical skill.

    Personal example He lived in France for almost twenty years, where he performed at the Paris national opera . Rare vocal abilities allowed the singer to make a successful album in Europe. solo career . He had everything to become real opera star: unique timbre of voice, attractiveness and aristocracy in manners. He spoke at best scenes France, Italy, Poland and the USA. But when at home they started, firmly decided that his opera career could wait. His family knows that he could not and did not want to live halfway; it was unthinkable for him to abstract himself from what was happening. And everyone else still cannot understand what the brilliant opera performer forgot in the trenches of Donbass. This was his personal example of self-sacrifice for the sake of the country, which he loved infinitely, and his people.

    Everyday life at the front of Vasily Slipak

    During the Revolution of Dignity he could not come to Ukraine - in France he signed a contract with the opera house. But even there he did everything in his power - he organized actions in support of his country, gave charity concerts To raise funds, he volunteered, helped the fighters, and then he himself joined one of the volunteer battalions. Vasily went to Donbass, to know about the war not from newspapers and the Internet. He took the call sign “Myth”, and many soldiers did not even know that an opera star was fighting next to them, because Slipak did not like to talk about himself at all. On the page in social network he asked to help the wounded and the families of the dead, for this alone he turned to people. Vasily did not flaunt everything he did for the sake of the fighters.

    Returning from Donbass, he continued charity concerts and, together with the Ukrainian diaspora in France, provided assistance to children whose parents were taken away by the war. And in the summer of 2016, he again went to the east of the country.

    "Myth" and reality

    When journalists learned that there was an opera singer at the front, they immediately began filming all sorts of stories about him.

    did not refuse interviews, but always said that he was not giving them for his own PR. In this way, he wanted to convey his position to people, support those who had lost faith, and attract help for the fighters. Vasily Slipak 2016, a sniper's bullet ended his life

    . The singer's voice has fallen silent forever, but will resound in the memory of connoisseurs of his talent.

    DATA In 2011, the singer decided to try his hand at the international opera competition Armel, the jury of which had to select several candidates for leading roles in five productions at the best theater stages cities of New York, Krakow, Szeged, Pilsen and Bol. After several rounds of the competition

    received the right to participate in the finals of the prestigious opera “competition”. At the winners' concert, he performed the Toreador's aria from the opera and won the prize for best male performance. Vasily Slipak A unique countertenor had just begun to emerge; at one of the rehearsals of the “Dudarik” chapel, he and Yuri Kolasa imitated and, who performed the famous composition “Barcelona”. The rest of the choir singers liked it so much that at every opportunity they asked the guys to sing again.

    Updated: April 7, 2019 by: Elena

    World-famous opera singer Vasyl Slipak, who became a Ukrainian volunteer after the start of the war in Donbass, was killed by a sniper in eastern Ukraine.

    Vasily Slipak lived and worked in France for 19 years, but after the start of the war in Donbass, he went to the front as a volunteer as part of the Right Sector.

    Vasily Spivak on the Maidan in Kyiv during a farewell to the Right Sector fighters who died on June 11, 2016. This is Vasily's last trip to Kyiv. Photo: Yuri Butusov/Facebook

    Journalist Yuri Butusov announced the death on his page in Facebook.

    “Vasyl Slipak, a world-famous opera singer, who lived and worked in France for 19 years, sang at the Paris Opera, but with the onset of Russian aggression he left his European career and returned to defend his homeland, died at the front near Donetsk in the ranks of the Right Sector,” wrote He.

    According to him, Slipak's call sign was Myth, short for Mephistopheles, a character in his favorite opera Faust.

    Vasily Slipak is a world-famous opera singer, one of the most famous baritones, and has been awarded many vocal awards. For the aria “Toreador” he received the “Best Male Performance” award at international festival opera singers, held in Armel.

    While working in France, he sang on such famous stages as the Paris Grand Opera, Athenaeum, Opera Bastille, and performed at opera houses the cities of Massy and Saint-Etienne, as well as in the Lyon “Amphitheater 3000”.

    Later Ministry of Culture confirmed fact of Slipak’s death and expressed condolences:

    The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine expresses sincere condolences to loved ones, relatives, compatriots and the entire Ukrainian society in connection with the loss of a true hero of their land. Glory to the hero! Eternal memory to him!

    The frontman of the group “Okean Elzy” Svyatoslav Vakarchuk shared his thoughts on the death of the famous opera singer Vasily Slipak in Donbass.

    The singer wrote about this on his Twitter page.

    “I didn’t know Vasily Slipak personally. But now he is in my memory forever! He and his voice... Heroes don’t die!” the musician wrote.

    “I can’t help but grieve about the Ukrainian singer Vasily Slipak, who died in the ATO,” writes Kiev priest Alypiy Svetlichny about a native of Lvov, a Right Sector volunteer. - Great voice, talent, well-deserved attention. It would seem that the person had everything. But the Maidan whirlwind captured him... Today the Ukrainian media will weep over the coffin of the murdered singer, who took the nickname “Myth”, from the abbreviated “Mephistopheles”. But aren’t they, the media, the main killers of the singer and thousands of other worthy people who created their own myth! A myth that encourages war!

    O. Alypiy wrote this on Friday, July 1, on that day in Lvov the funeral of a baritone, a Nazi machine gunner, shot by a Donbass sniper took place.

    “Vasyl Slipak died during strange circumstances, which should be further studied. There are a lot of ambiguities, writes Fr. Alypy on Facebook. - However, I would like you to listen to the song “Oh, the dawn of the evening has come over Pochaev” performed by the deceased. It is believed that the words and music of the song are folk. The story is about the time of St. Job of Pochaev, who is called in the song by his nickname - Iron. Turks and Crimean Tatars attacked the Pochaevsky monastery, and the Mother of God protected it with the prayers of St. Job. The song is beautiful, touching and reflects real historical events. But! No one is embarrassed that it is performed in the Ukrainian Uniate Church in Paris, as a matter of course. For Uniates in general, a mixture of beliefs is not something abnormal. They don’t care that the Monk Job was an Orthodox monk, that the icon of the Mother of God of Pochaev is the blessing of the Orthodox Patriarch. They easily deny Orthodoxy to Orthodox saints, signing them up as their supporters. And the Baptist of Rus', Prince Vladimir, is equally “their Baptist” for them. They are not at all embarrassed that they renounced the faith of their fathers and the same Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir who betrayed Orthodoxy! Big names are important to them, they steal history to discredit it with their unscrupulousness. Ukrainianness itself is a religion in which Christ and the Mother of God, saints and historical figures are visible, like knots in an embroidered shirt.

    For a nationalist, Christianity is only a forced episode of Ukrainianness. And sometimes it’s clearly an unfortunate episode, which is why they want to replace humble Christianity, which does not fit into the media “demands” and orders for murder, with rabid paganism.

    And the transition to this is open betrayal, under the guise of Uniatism and “Filaretism.”

    Betray Christ under any guise, lulling the Ukrainian heart with nationalism! This is the task of the new world of talented mephistophiles.

    Vasily sings beautifully. Touching. About the Crimean Tatars and predatory Turks put to shame by the Most Holy Theotokos. About the Orthodox Saint Job. Sings as if everything is normal. The conscience is clear, lulled into slumber and sweet bliss. There is no cognitive dissonance felt. It’s not for nothing that some performers now call this song “Ukrainian folk lull.” Sorry for the singer. It's sad that he died without figuring it out. Lulled false ideas. Without the true Lord Christ."

    The spiritual father also speaks about the historical betrayal of Uniateism, about the apostasy of five hundred years ago, substitutions that are still relevant today, and it is clear what they led to: personal and social tragedies.

    But let’s also think about the fact that “Oh, the dawn of the evening has come” is not an opera aria, but a spiritual verse. The operatic style is absolutely alien to the style of spiritual poetry. And it would be better to listen to this song performed by some blind lyre player, a wandering Kalika, and not a false spivak Slipak. Having found himself with his bright vocals most adequately here, watch his “operatic singing” at the Eiffel Tower. In the credits for the video it is called culturally, even in Russian: “Flash mob, Paris, conductor Vasily Slipak.” However, listen to what exactly and how exactly this spivak sings...

    Publicist Eva Merkuryeva, who titled her article “Operation Provocation,” is inclined to conclude that “the singer Vasyl Slipak was killed by his ‘brothers,’” since the sacrifice he desired was very long overdue. “Firstly, direct calculation on the reaction of Europeans. The singer himself blurted out in an interview that pro-Russian sentiments are growing stronger in Europe (in France), and there is a need to convince Europeans. A soloist of the Paris Opera, who left to pursue a career in France in 1997, was killed by a “Russian-terrorist sniper” during a “militant attack” - this is just the way to convey to Europe Ukrainian painting conflict in Donbass. Moreover, in France, for example, “Ukrainian patriots”, even at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Parliament, failed to prevent the release of the scandalous film “Masks of the Revolution” on television.

    Secondly, Galicia more than ever needs a Ukrainian known in Europe - a “lost hero” from the ranks of the creative intelligentsia. Which seems to materialize two conclusions at once: 1) it is Russian and pro-Russian forces that are killing the “Ukrainian European dream”; 2) for the sake of Ukraine, creative intellectuals are dying at the hands of Donetsk miners and Pskov car wash workers. Both of these “deep” thoughts have already rushed across the networks at a gallop.

    It was very necessary to motivate the Galicians to escalate the conflict in the Donbass, since even this region has already “floated” - voices are heard from there that the main enemies of Ukraine are not in the Donbass and not even in Moscow, but in Kiev, and some of them are their own, home-grown, that it’s time to look for ways to peace, that Lvov’s garbage literally continues to poison life, that the Maidan was a riot (especially if you look at the pictures of a joyful Yatsenyuk in Washington). And so on".

    The analyst develops a noteworthy idea: “There is another seemingly inconspicuous moment - the promotion of the Right Sector, where Slipak fought. Allegedly, it was “PS” that repelled the “attack of militants” on the Donbass front on that fateful morning of June 29, 2016. "Volunteers" are fighting. It is also noteworthy that the Ukrainian media are desperately confused about the question of where exactly Slipak died: some claim that it was near Lugansk, others that it was near Debaltseve. Strange, right?

    It is quite possible that one of the goals of the crazy Ukrainian “offensive” on the night of June 29, according to its organizers, was to provide the scenery for the murder of Vasyl Slipak.

    Of course, no one advertised this task - it was necessary to create an epic picture of the “offensive of the militants”, which was heroically repelled by the Right Sector, but the long arm of the sniper killed the singer-fighter, known throughout the Paris Opera.”

    The idea of ​​a provocative and tendentious (directed against the implementation of the Minsk agreements) promotion of the death of Mr. Slipak is confirmed by the nature and content of the remarks of the Ukrainian media, in which a single source is clearly discernible, even to the point of verbal coincidences.

    Analysts give examples.

    Viktor Tregubov, journalist: “One of the most unpleasant properties of this particular war is that the soloists of the Paris Opera are being exchanged for car wash workers in Ryazan regional centers.”

    Lyudmila Dobrovolskaya, news anchor of the 1+1 TV channel: “I’m listening to his Toreador. What a voice and what a heart! Died at the hands of a primitive givi-like creature, which was so generous land Donbass And we will smile to our hearts’ content at his killers and allow these Pithecanthropus and their one-celled descendants to live with us in the same country, because “we are one people”? I don’t have the slightest desire to smile or live next to her. I don’t apologize for hate speech - I don’t have anything else for genetic garbage.”

    Arkady Babchenko, journalist: “One of the main abominations of this nasty war is that the Russian world is losing its declassed sections of the population, and Ukraine is forced to lose the entire cross-section of society. The Russian world is losing car wash workers. Ukraine - opera singers, journalists, IT specialists, businessmen... Russia is grinding up the Ukrainian gene pool. It is doing to Ukraine what it has been doing to itself for centuries. I heard Slipak’s name today for the first time, but the very fact of losing this life is a tragedy for me.”

    This is manipulation, but also idiotic self-pronunciation: the journalist hears the singer’s last name for the first time, but calls him in a high register “the color of the nation,” as opposed to “genetic garbage cattle,” “washers of Ryazan car washes.” How they hate everything Russian! What “European” arrogance, however! Where did she come from? From what heights of “Ukrainian aristocracy” and blue Aryan blood are these custom clickers broadcasting?

    Here you can’t help but think that the organized farewell to Slipak in Lviv is clearly a propaganda action, a classic provocation in the spirit of the scoundrel and “Mephistopheles” Henri Levy, because on the Kiev Maidan and in Dnepropetrovsk, where they also said goodbye to him, the events were dull, without “Lvov” resonance.

    Kiev publicist Maxim Ravreba sarcastically, even caustically, wrote on Facebook about the Lviv memorial service and about the “culprit” of the mournful event: “A modest funeral of a simple opera soldier. Lemberg. Today. Not for nothing about civil war in Ukraine the word "operetta" was said. Operetta revolution, operetta war and operetta soldiers. It’s clear that I’m talking now specifically about this poser and dude, who was not at all a soloist and bass-baritone of the Parisian opera house (by the way, which one? Opera de Paris, Opera Garnier or Grand Opera?), but an opera guest worker - Galicia from Lviv in search of a long oir. But in fact, he is a neo-Nazi, psychopath, racist, maniac and achtung, who imagines himself to be a singing Cossack Rembanko and cunningly planned to capitalize his photos with automatic weapons and rifles in his further guest worker operetta biography. But that’s not about that now. He had already received his award; the biography ended with a well-aimed shot from a Soviet rebel. The subject no longer sings, but lies calmly in a very expensive hearse, and after the proper spells are cast over him, he will be buried and forgotten forever, as if he never existed on our gentle planet. This always happens. But I’m talking about the subject’s modest funeral in Lemberg. To whom there is war, and to whom the mother is dear: to whom there is a common pit near Zaporozhye or Odessa in the place where surgical waste is buried, and to others a hearse from the Mercedes-Benz company. There is no justice on earth, but believe me, IT IS ABOVE! It's worth thinking about."

    If you look at a selection of photographs of this singer, you can see how his facial features were distorted. A last photo- simply terrible. It is clear that this is a crazy person. And the nickname, derived from the devil, probably corresponded to his last state mind. Alas.

    Some shed tears for the lost talent. And they probably forget that he went to kill people. If you go to kill, remember that they can kill you too. If you want to sing, sing. If you want to kill, you can be killed yourself.

    “Today, any citizen of any country in the world can come to Ukraine on a safari per person, get a weapon and shoot uncontrollably wherever they go,” writes Kiev publicist Miroslava Berdnik.

    It’s surprising to read the private opinions of some outside commentators on social networks. Donetsk republics who claim that if we put it aside, we should still respect the murdered man, because “a man, a warrior, made his own choice, took up a weapon,” so to speak, “he left his hut, went to fight...”, and, they say, condemn him! This is amazing relativism, showing that some of our comrades perceive reality in a spiritually immature way - almost like a role-playing game, where good guys are divided into two teams and simply play ours and theirs. In the case of Slipak (this surname translates as “blind”), we are dealing with a murderer who came to Novorossiya to “kill Muscovites”, confused by a false idea. Yes, Spivak of the Paris Opera himself made his choice (or the demon that possessed him) - but in favor of murder, as part of the Nazi Azov battalion.

    Odessa anti-Maidan activist Alexander Vasiliev sums up common feature under the thought of sacred victims“revolution of hydity”: “The slogan of marginal Ukrainian nationalists “Slaves are not allowed to go to heaven” during the “Euromaidan” turned into a guide to action. Slaves meant law-abiding citizens loyal to the current regime, and paradise meant the European Union. Contrary to concrete practice and common sense, a feeling arose that the road to the kingdom of free consumption could be paved with one’s breasts. In the same way, this belief contradicted the Christian teaching about heaven and the ways to find oneself in it. To a greater extent, this imperative corresponded to some kind of warlike paganism in the Scandinavian manner, in which paradise - Valhalla - is a gathering place for warriors killed in battle. It is not surprising that people who died in street clashes with law enforcement agencies were instantly canonized within the framework of this picture of the world. The Heavenly Hundred turned out to be the vanguard of Ukrainians who managed to integrate into Europe. Is it any wonder that the people who came to power on the blood of these fighters who went to heaven, under the promises of European integration, started a war in the country they inherited?”

    You can also recall the fashion trend of Svidomites that preceded the Euromaidan: “Oh my God, why am I not a Muscovite!” Which God were they thanking? Obviously not the One who has neither Greek nor Jew.

    And before the body of the murdered man had, as they say, been lowered into the grave, a petition was registered on the website of the Lviv City Council to rename Tchaikovsky Street to Vasily Slipak Street. “To properly honor the memory of the newest Ukrainian Hero, a fighter of the Russian-Ukrainian war, a world-famous opera singer, Lviv resident Vasyl Slipak-Mephistopheles, who tragically died on June 29 near the village of Luhanskoye, Donetsk region from a Russian sniper’s bullet, it is proposed to: Change the name of Tchaikovsky Street (“ Russian composer with Ukrainian roots" - so in the text. - L.Z.) to the street of the hero of Ukraine Vasyl Slipak,” the text of the petition says.

    Vasyl Slipak followed the “heavenly hundred”. “Let the Spivak now drink Sashka Bilom and Bandera!” - the commentator on social networks soberly concludes.

    Paris Opera singer Vasily Slipak, who fought in the ranks of the Right Sector banned in Russia in Donbass, was killed by a sniper from a large-caliber rifle, Ukrainian media report.

    A member of the radical group Right Sector*, banned in Russia, was shot dead at about 6.00 in the area of ​​the village of Luganskoe, reports the Ukrainian TV channel Hromadske TV. The death of Slipak has not yet been officially confirmed.

    On Wednesday, Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba said that Ukrainian opera singer Vasyl Slipak is in Donbass; According to media reports, he fought in the ranks of the radical group Right Sector, banned in Russia.

    Slipak was born in the Lviv region. A student of the Lviv choir “Dudarik”. He graduated from the Lviv Conservatory (now the Lysenko Academy of Music) in 1997. In 1994 he won a competition in the French city of Clermont. After that, he traveled to France for two years, sang there, until in 1996 he was offered to stay in the country forever. After completing his studies in Lviv, he was invited to Paris Opera. He made a serious solo career in Europe. He reached the finals of competitions in Budapest, Los Angeles, New York and Paris.

    With the outbreak of the revolution in Ukraine, Slipak abandoned his European career and returned to his homeland. He took part in the Maidan. Then he became a volunteer. Subsequently, Slipak went to fight as part of the seventh separate battalion of the Right Sector volunteer corps and joined military operation Kyiv in Donbass. I chose the call sign “Myth” (short for Mephistopheles from the opera “Faust”).

    At the end of hostilities, as Slipak admitted, he would like to return to work in France.

    "Right Sector" is a Ukrainian association of radical nationalist organizations. In January and February 2014, militants of the movement took part in clashes with law enforcement officers and the seizure administrative buildings, and since April – in suppressing protests in eastern Ukraine. In November 2014, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized the right-wing radical association extremist organization and banned its activities in the country. In January 2015, Right Sector was included in the register of organizations banned in Russia.

    Since mid-April 2014, the Kyiv authorities in the East of Ukraine have carried out a “special operation” to suppress the protest movement in Donbass. According to the UN at the beginning of June 2016, at least 9.3 thousand people and 21.5 thousand have been wounded since the beginning of the conflict in Donbass.

    * An organization in respect of which the court made a decision that has entered into legal force to liquidate or prohibit its activities on the grounds provided for by the Federal Law “On Combating Extremist Activities”