Maryana Chorna, a well-known Ukrainian journalist, tragically died on 24 June.

Maryana Chorna. under this penname her readers and viewers knew the brilliant analyst. lately headed the informative-analytic department of the TV channel NOA. Her real name was Miroslava Aliokhina, she was 44-year-old.

In early 90s, after Ukraine got her independence, Maryana Chorna worked in a well-known Lviv newspaper. Post-postup. Her articles of that period will certainly become the priceless material for historians who will learn the events and situation in the Ukrainian society of that time. In 1996 she passed to the TV channel NOA where she headed first the department of news and then the analytic department. She was among those who created the TV project. Shadow sector, which became famous due to critical materials concerning the corruption in the Ukrainian business. Lately she has headed the project. Election-99. and on 27 June we all expected the first transmission of this project. The right to elect.

Lately she frequently told her friends and colleagues that she felt a pressure from several politicians, threats and propositions to leave the TV channel.

Maryana Chorna was buried in Lviv, side by side with her mother, who died last year.

The editorial board of. Prava ludyny. offers the condolences to the workers of the TV channel NOA, to friends and relatives of Maryana Chorna.

Editor in charge of the issue - Evhen Zakharov