Just over a year ago on July 7, 2018, a Ukrainian moral icon was laid to rest. Levko Lukyanenko was a Ukrainian nationalist by his own appellation, a freedom fighter, dissident and one of Ukraine’s longest termed political prisoner. After independence Lukyanenko became a politician, diplomat, but frankly he was never suited for that line of work. Politicians and diplomats are rarely moral icons.
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A man holds a picture of Levko Lukyanenko as he queues to pay tribute to dissident Levko Lukyanenko during his funeral ceremony in Kyiv on July 10, 2018.
