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Nationalist campaigner for the Ukrainian language is shot dead in Lviv
Iryna Farion, 60, a former MP known for her opposition to officials speaking in Russian, was attacked on the streetwww.theguardian.com
Punch Russian speakers in the jaw was her campaign
She was a member of Svoboda. This party once reached the dizzy heights of having one of its members as the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine following the 2014 Euromaidan 'revolution'. The leader of her party said in the Ukraine Parliament that he would fight ‘the Moscow-Jewish mafia ruling Ukraine’. He has also claimed that ‘organised Jewry dominate Ukrainian media and government, and have enriched themselves through criminal activities and plan to engineer a “genocide” upon the Christian Ukrainian population’. Svobaoda were in the same European Party grouping as the BNP.