A temporary Memorial Alley dedicated to Giorgiy Gongadze will be opened in Kyiv

Heorhiy Gongadze Award

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In Kyiv, a temporary Alley of memory of Heorhiy Gongadze will be opened, which everyone will be able to visit during the week.

During the ceremony, a commemorative event dedicated to the 24th anniversary of the journalist’s murder will be held. reported team of the Heorhiy Gongadze Award.

The ceremonial opening of the Alley of Memory will begin on September 16 at 12:00 on Kontraktova Square in front of the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”.

It will be in the format of an exhibition and will consist of informative banners about the life and contribution of George to independent journalism and civil society of Ukraine.

Anyone can visit the exhibition until September 22, 20:00.

“In the conditions of Russia’s aggressive attempts to once again tie us, Ukrainians, to itself, it is important to return not just to the origins of history, but to specific personalities. People who were the drivers of change, who became the impetus for historical changes. George was just like that.

The alley that we are opening in Kyiv on Kontraktova is precisely what should demonstrate Gongadze’s contribution to the transformations that Ukraine has experienced and is experiencing. His contribution is everywhere – in the formation of civil society, culture, self-identification, freedom of speech and media development.” – says Vladyslav Zinkevich, program director of the Award.

The alley will be established in partnership with the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity.

“Gheorhiy Gongadze was a brave and honest journalist, for whom his principledness was a death sentence. But from the distance of time, the reaction of Ukrainian society seems to be particularly important here: the involvement of the highest authorities in the journalist’s murder became a sentence for this government.

The protests at that time proved the awareness and vision of the national dignity of Ukrainians: the government, which descends to crimes against freedom of speech, to the physical destruction of uncomfortable oppositionists, will inevitably lose its legitimacy in the eyes of the people.” – noted the Deputy General Director of the National Memorial Complex of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred – the Museum of the Revolution of Dignity, Olga Salo.

During the opening of the Alley, the following will perform:

Tetyana Teren, executive director of Ukrainian PEN;
Myroslava Barchuk, a Ukrainian journalist and TV presenter, vice-president of the Ukrainian PEN and a person who knew Heorhiy Gongadze personally;
human rights defender, representative of the Gongadze family, Valentina Telichenko;
Olga Salo, Deputy General Director of the National Memorial Complex of Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred – Museum of the Revolution of Dignity;
journalist-investigator “UP” Mykhailo Tkach;
Tetyana Pechonchyk, head of the ZMINA Center for Human Rights;
Oksana Romanyuk, director of the IMI.

During the event, speakers will talk about the contribution of Heorhiy Gongadze to the formation of civil society, honor the memory of Ukrainian and foreign journalists killed by the Russians, and also highlight the crimes against journalists committed by the occupying Russian authorities in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

After the opening of the Alley of Memory, the participants will go to the church of Mykola Naberezhny in Podol to lay flowers on the grave of Georgy Gongadze.

“This Alley is another reminder that Heroes of Ukraine cannot and will not be forgotten, and evil must always be punished. Threats, repression and murder have no place in Ukraine.” – emphasized Vladyslav Zinkevich.

We will remind you that this year’s laureate of the Georgy Gongadze Journalism Award this year became Tetyana Troshchynska, director of the department of strategic analysis and development of socially influential content at Suspilny.

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