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A man who didn’t know Nataliya Shkoda beat her severely because she admitted: “I am a lesbian.”
Shkoda, the civil partner of Halyna Kornienko, an adviser of Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, is yet another illustration how alien some Ukrainians are to the motto of this year’s Eurovision, chosen by Ukrainian organizers – “Celebrate Diversity.”
According to Anna Leonova, CEO of Gay Alliance of Ukraine, this situation is not “only about the anger and hatred that pushed this man to attack but also about the indifference of witnesses and police. We are told Ukrainian legislation protects us but what do we get in real?”
In a Facebook post on May 2, Kornienko accused police in negligence and indifference.
“My wife was beaten in front of a bunch of people and police was aiming to let the situation go. I don’t think it is a correct reaction,” she wrote.
The Kyiv Post could not reach her for the comment.
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council:
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Many Ukrainians refuse to buy Russian goods and services, but not members of the president’s family, it seems. The 16-year-old son of Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, Mykhailo, the youngest of the president’s four children, has been seen wearing a Russian-made sweatshirt, with the word “Russia” printed on it, in a photograph posted on his Russian friend Sergey Kiziev’s Instagram account.
The photograph, first spotted and reposted on May 5 by Tabloid, a section of Ukrainian news website Ukrainska Pravda, shows Poroshenko posing with his friends wearing the sweatshirt. Although Poroshenko’s face is obscured, he can be identified by his sneakers, which he can be seen wearing in another photo where his face is clearly visible. Another photograph shows Kiziev wearing the sweatshirt himself.