Irina Grigorievna Berezhnaya (Ukrainian Irina Grigorievna Berezhna; August 13, 1980, Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR, USSR - August 5, 2017, Zadarsk, Croatia) - Ukrainian political and public figure, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VI and VII convocations (2007-2014) , member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Justice, member of groups for inter-parliamentary relations with some countries.
early years
She was born on August 13, 1980 in Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk) in the family of lawyer Elena Petrovna Berezhnaya.
In 2002, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in Jurisprudence. At the age of 19, she opened a travel company, which in two years turned into a profitable business project.
During her studies, Irina Berezhnaya completed an internship at the State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market (from 1999 to 2000 she worked in the Department for Investigating Offenses in the Securities Market of the Control and Legal Department). She has served as Assistant Advisor to the Head of the Legislative Subcommittee.
After graduating from the university, Berezhnaya underwent a further internship at the First Notary's Office in Kyiv [source?]. From February 1 to March 19, 2004, she worked as Deputy Director for Civil Law Issues at Astraya-Service. In January 2004, having passed the qualification exam, she received a certificate of the right to engage in notarial activities, and in March she registered as a private entrepreneur. For three years of work, the notary office of I. G. Berezhnoy has become one of the most famous and successful in Kiev[source?], and in 2008 it received the European Quality award from the European Business Assembly (Oxford).
In 2007, Irina defended her dissertation and received a Ph.D. in law (according to the Bologna system of education). In September 2008, the Nomination Committee of the European Business Assembly and the Academic Council of the International University of Vienna awarded Irina Berezhnaya the international title of Honorary Professor of the International University of Vienna, noting her contribution to the development of international relations in the field of science, politics, education and business. In 2009, she received her second higher education in the specialty "Public Administration" at the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.
In September 2007, Irina Berezhnaya was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation from the Party of Regions. She was a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Justice, Head of the Subcommittee on Protection of the Rights, Freedoms, Interests of Citizens and Systematization, Adaptation of Ukrainian Legislation to International Legal Standards in the Sphere of Justice and the Status of Judges of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Justice. She took an active civic position, took part in congresses of public organizations of Ukraine - the Association of Lawyers of Ukraine, the Notary Chamber of Ukraine, the European Business Association and so on. In 2012 she was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Irina is known to the public for the project “Dancing with the Stars”, which aired in 2007 on the 1 + 1 TV channel: in the show, she, as the official notary of the project, announced the results of the audience voting. In 2012, as part of the Party of Regions team, she appeared in the game “What? Where? When?" on the Inter TV channel, several times she was recognized as the best player of the team. Since 2008, she hosted the author’s program “Your Right with Irina Berezhnaya” on the Radio Era radio station, in which she advised Ukrainians on legal issues and helped to use national legislation in real life to protect the violated rights of citizens.
In the Verkhovna Rada
In her political positions, Irina Berezhnaya was a moderate politician who advocated reforms in the legal and judicial systems of Ukraine [source?]. As a member of the Ukrainian side of the Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation between Ukraine and the EU, she took an active part in joint meetings of the Committee. Together with Andrey Pinchuk, he is the author of a bill banning the sale of alcohol at night.
He is the founder of the "Consular Club" together with the EU Delegation to Ukraine, the purpose of which is to monitor current issues related to visa liberalization and simplification of obtaining Schengen visas for Ukrainians.
On July 5, 2009, their daughter Daniella was born out of wedlock. Irina kept her father's name a secret, during her lifetime she did not show her daughter in public and in a photo on social networks. The media assumed that the father of her daughter was businessman Boris Fuksman, which he himself later confirmed. She called travel and equestrian sports her hobby, to which Nestor Shufrich introduced her. She loved to read and attend theatrical premieres.
Scandals
Berezhnaya was one of those deputies who, on January 16, 2014, voted for the so-called "dictatorial laws" that significantly restrict the rights of citizens and freedom of speech.
She was also remembered for her scandalous anti-Ukrainian statements.
So, at one time she criticized the order of the Ministry of Culture on the mandatory duplication of films in the Ukrainian language, according to her - "this is a colossal legal nihilism."
In 2015, she appeared in the propaganda program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" on the Russian channel "Russia".
"Ukraine is rapidly turning into a UkroISIS terrorist power, where historical monuments are simply being demolished, a food, transport, and now energy blockade is being set up (it was about the blockade of Crimea). Many people will agree with me that such a scenario was planned during the coup d'état" - said then Berezhnaya.
And recently, Berezhnaya made a statement regarding the introduction of a visa-free regime. She said that Ukrainians should not be happy about the visa-free regime, because they "ruined their own country" and now they want to "blame it on Europe."
"In principle, a strange representation of patriotism in Ukrainian is to destroy your own country, destroy the economy, kill 10 thousand Ukrainians, discriminate against civilians who live in the Donbass, so that you can save 35 euros and dump them in Europe. "Patriots, go for it **, and don't forget to take saucepans, red lace underpants and a bag of Lviv trash with you!" Berezhnaya noted.
Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 36-year-old Irina Berezhnaya died tragically on Saturday afternoon. A young woman was the victim of a terrible car accident that occurred on a difficult serpentine highway in Italy.
According to some reports, the driver of the car in which Irina Berezhnaya was traveling with her eight-year-old daughter Daniella lost control. On a sharp turn, the car was thrown off the road. Irina and the driver died on the spot. The girl was injured, but her life is reportedly not in danger. The child was sitting in the back seat of the car in a child seat, and this is what saved the daughter of Irina Berezhnaya.
The news of the tragic death of a young woman has already been confirmed by another former deputy, Elena Bondarenko.
"Yes it's true. Irochka is in heaven…” the woman wrote on her Facebook page.
36-year-old ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Berezhnaya, who died in an accident, was buried in a snow-white coffin.
According to TSN, at the funeral, the deceased was wearing a white "vellon" - according to tradition, unmarried girls are buried in a wedding dress. Berezhnaya, who has an 8-year-old daughter, has never been married.
70-year-old businessman Boris Fuksman, who also arrived at the mourning farewell, confirmed to reporters that he is the father of Berezhnaya's daughter.
“She is a wonderful girl and is very similar to her mother. She is my daughter from the first day, bears my last name, ”Fuchsman said.
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Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 36-year-old Irina Berezhnaya died tragically on Saturday afternoon. A young woman was the victim of a terrible car accident that occurred on a difficult serpentine highway in Italy.
According to some reports, the driver of the car in which Irina Berezhnaya was traveling with her eight-year-old daughter Daniella lost control. On a sharp turn, the car was thrown off the road. Irina and the driver died on the spot. The girl was injured, but her life is reportedly not in danger. The child was sitting in the back seat of the car in a child seat, and this is what saved the daughter of Irina Berezhnaya.
The news of the tragic death of a young woman has already been confirmed by another former deputy, Elena Bondarenko.
"Yes it's true. Irochka is in heaven…” the woman wrote on her Facebook page.
Friends of Irina Berezhnaya were shocked by the news of her tragic death. They do not want to believe what happened and say that the world has lost an incredibly bright person.
“A huge loss not only for relatives, but for the whole country. The Kingdom of heaven. I don’t want to believe”, “Lord, how is it? I admired her, admired her mind, endurance, .. It hurts. God…”, “God, why? I can't believe it... It shouldn't be like that, for the bright and the best to be taken away at such a difficult hour. Accept, Lord, into your kingdom”, “Most recently I met. Irina at the airport. She flew with her mother to her daughter. Beautiful! Smart! We talked for a long time! I don't believe it at all. How so?! There are no words”, “I just found out ... I can’t even believe it! She would only live and live! It smelled like a flower, delighting us with its appearance on the programs! Kingdom of heaven to her soul! At least the child survived. Condolences to family and friends!” - such comments on social networks are left by acquaintances and fans of Irina Berezhnaya.
It is known that the young woman was friends with many stars of Russian show business. In particular, the singer Ani Lorak was a close friend of the deceased. Irina Berezhnaya baptized the vocalist's daughter and treated her goddaughter very tenderly. Berezhnaya's microblog has a lot of joint pictures with the girl.
Irina Berezhnaya was a guest of the "Heat" festival, which took place in Baku a week ago. And on the eve of her death, the young woman took part in a high-profile party in Monte Carlo, hosted by the famous designer Ulyana Sergeenko. In the microblog of Irina Berezhnaya there are many photographs testifying to her warm relations with many celebrities.
Irina Berezhnaya did not live up to her 37th birthday for several days. Ani Lorak's friend was preparing to celebrate her birthday on August 13th.
Berezhnaya was born in Lugansk and graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University in Kyiv. For a short period of professional activity, she was able to become a notary, and her office was considered one of the most successful in Kyiv. At the age of 27, Irina Berezhnaya became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions. Around the same period, she defended her thesis in philosophy.
A few years ago, Berezhnaya left systemic politics and began to engage in human rights activities. The ex-deputy opposed the severance of cultural and economic ties with Russia. The young woman regularly performed on Ukrainian and Russian TV channels. For her bold statements, Irina was often criticized by nationalist-minded activists.
According to initial reports, the car, in which the ex-deputy was with her 8-year-old daughter Daniella, fell off a serpentine on a mountain road. However, later local media reported that an A1 Mercedes moving along the main highway of Croatia unexpectedly left the road between the cities of Maslenica and Posedarje, rammed a fence and crashed into a pole. At the same time, the speed of the car on which the Bulgarian numbers were installed, judging by the damage, was very high.
As a result, in addition to Berezhnaya herself, the driver, a 38-year-old citizen of Bulgaria, also died in the collision.
According to an eyewitness, it took rescuers two hours to remove their bodies from the back of the Mercedes.
Photo report: Ex-deputy of the Rada Berezhnaya died in an accident near the Adriatic Sea
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Berezhnaya's daughter, fastened in a child seat, escaped with minor injuries and was hospitalized.
The accident happened around 1:30 p.m. August 5. According to one of the main versions, the Mercedes driver fell asleep at the wheel - the exit from an empty highway, on which there were no sharp turns, and a collision with a pole is quite difficult to explain with something else. Now the body of Berezhnaya is still in Croatia - it will be handed over to relatives after law enforcement officers deal with all the circumstances of the tragedy.
According to the Ukrainian TV channel TSN, her father arrived in the city of Zadar, where the injured girl is located.
Berezhnaya was never officially married and carefully concealed from journalists the name of the father of the child. According to journalists, a well-known German businessman and media mogul of Ukrainian origin, Boris Fuksman, came to pick up the child.
Even during the life of the ex-deputy, the Ukrainian media noted the close relationship between Fuchsman and Berezhnaya and suggested that it was he who could be the father of her daughter.
In the last days before her unexpected death, Berezhnaya visited Baku as a guest at the Heat festival, and then, literally the day before her death, she posted a photo from Monte Carlo on Instagram, in which she poses with Russian singer Glucose.
The death of the ex-deputy, who was a prominent figure in Ukrainian social and political life, caused a stormy response in the Ukrainian media and social networks.
A number of commentators did not hide their gloating, accusing the deceased of allegedly anti-patriotic statements and actions
- it is known that the former deputy of the Party of Regions did not support the current authorities and spoke skeptically about the introduction of a visa-free regime between Ukraine and the EU. She also repeatedly appeared in Russian political talk shows dedicated to events in Ukraine. The last time Berezhnaya appeared on the Rossiya TV channel was in mid-July.
“Of course, dancing on the bones is disgusting, and today I was once again convinced of the common truth, which I myself have repeatedly spoken about. Facebook has become a territory of hatred. But the death of Irina Berezhnaya, in my opinion, revealed a much deeper problem, namely, the conformity of the politician's lifestyle with his convictions and his public position. Irina died in the EU, on the criticism of which she built her political career. Moreover, I know for sure that just a few days ago Irina was in Monaco at the show of the Russian designer Ulyana Sergienko,” said Mayor of Dnipro Boris Filatov.
However, the majority reacted to the death of Berezhnaya with sympathy. A close friend of Berezhnaya, singer Ani Lorak, shared a joint photo with the deceased, accompanied by her caption: “I can’t and don’t want to believe it ... My dear and beloved friend ... You are with me ... Irochka ... ".
Singer Nikolai Baskov, also posting a joint photo with Berezhnaya, wrote: “Lord, dear Irochka, I can’t believe it.”
The career of Irina Berezhnaya was stormy and impetuous. Born in 1980 in Luhansk, she opened her own travel agency at the age of 19, which quickly became a profitable business. In 2002 she graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Kyiv National University. T. Shevchenko with a degree in jurisprudence, and in 2009 - the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine with a degree in public administration.
From February to March 2004, Berezhnaya was Deputy Director for Legal Affairs at the law firm Astraya-Service. In January of the same year, she received a certificate of the right to engage in notarial activities, and in March she registered as a private entrepreneur. For three years, Berezhnaya's notary office has become one of the most famous and successful in Kyiv. Until November 2007, she was a private notary in the Kyiv City Notary District.
Then Berezhnaya went into politics and in 2007, at the age of 27, she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions, where she was a member of the justice committee.
In 2011, she again got into parliament, having been elected in one of the districts of the Kharkiv region. Berezhnaya served as First Deputy Head of the European Integration Committee. After Euromaidan, Berezhnaya went into opposition, sharply criticizing the government and speaking out against the military conflict in the Donbass and the glorification of Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War.
The car crashed into a pole in the dead of night at high speed. The blow was so strong that the rescuers removed the bodies of Berezhnaya and her driver from the mangled interior for several hours. The daughter of the deceased politician was in a child seat and escaped with minor injuries.
According to initial data, the car, in which the ex-deputy was with her 8-year-old daughter Daniella, fell off a serpentine on a mountain road. However, later local media reported that an A1 Mercedes moving along the main highway of Croatia unexpectedly left the road between the cities of Maslenica and Posedarje, rammed a fence and crashed into a pole. At the same time, the speed of the car on which the Bulgarian numbers were installed, judging by the damage, was very high.
As a result, in addition to Berezhnaya herself, the driver, a 38-year-old citizen of Bulgaria, also died in the collision.
According to an eyewitness, it took rescuers two hours to remove their bodies from the body of the Mercedes.
Berezhnaya's daughter, fastened in a child seat, escaped with minor injuries and was hospitalized.
The accident happened around 01:30 on August 5. According to one of the main versions, the Mercedes driver fell asleep at the wheel - it is rather difficult to explain the exit from an empty highway on which there were no sharp turns and a collision with a pole with something else. Now the body of Berezhnaya is still in Croatia - it will be handed over to relatives after law enforcement officers deal with all the circumstances of the tragedy.
According to the Ukrainian TV channel TSN, her father arrived in the city of Zadar, where the injured girl is located.
Berezhnaya was never officially married and carefully concealed from journalists the name of the father of the child. According to journalists, a well-known German businessman and media mogul of Ukrainian origin Boris Fuksman came to pick up the child.
Even during the life of the ex-deputy, the Ukrainian media noted the close relationship between Fuchsman and Berezhnaya and suggested that it was he who could be the father of her daughter.
In the last days before her unexpected death, Berezhnaya visited Baku as a guest at the Heat festival, and then, literally the day before her death, she posted a photo from Monte Carlo on Instagram, in which she poses with Russian singer Glucose.
The death of the ex-deputy, who was a prominent figure in Ukrainian social and political life, caused a stormy response in the Ukrainian media and social networks.
A number of commentators did not hide their gloating, accusing the deceased of allegedly anti-patriotic statements and actions - it is known that the former deputy of the Party of Regions did not support the current authorities and spoke skeptically about the introduction of a visa-free regime between Ukraine and the EU. She also repeatedly appeared in Russian political talk shows dedicated to events in Ukraine. The last time Berezhnaya appeared on the Rossiya TV channel was in mid-July.
“Of course, dancing on the bones is disgusting and, today, I once again became convinced of the common truth, which I myself have repeatedly spoken about. Facebook has become a territory of hatred. But the death of Irina Berezhnaya, in my opinion, revealed a much deeper problem. Namely, the conformity of the politician's lifestyle with his convictions and his public position. Irina died in the EU, on the criticism of which she built her political career. Moreover, I know for sure that just a few days ago Irina was in Monaco at the show of the Russian designer Ulyana Sergienko, ”said Boris Filatov, mayor of the city of Dnipro.
However, the majority reacted to the death of Berezhnaya with sympathy. A close friend of Berezhnaya, singer Ani Lorak, shared a joint photo with the deceased, accompanied by her caption: “I can’t and don’t want to believe it ... My dear and beloved friend ... You are with me ... Irochka ... ".
Singer Nikolai Baskov, also posting a joint photo with Berezhnaya, wrote: “Lord, dear Irochka, I can’t believe it.”
The career of Irina Berezhnaya was stormy and impetuous. Born in 1980 in Luhansk, she opened her own travel agency at the age of 19, which quickly became a profitable business. In 2002 she graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Kyiv National University. T. Shevchenko with a degree in jurisprudence, and in 2009 - the National Academy of Management under the President of Ukraine with a degree in public administration.
From February to March 2004, Berezhnaya was Deputy Director for Legal Affairs at the law firm Astraya-Service. In January of the same year, she received a certificate of the right to engage in notarial activities, and in March she registered as a private entrepreneur. For three years, Berezhnaya's notary office has become one of the most famous and successful in Kyiv. Until November 2007, she was a private notary in the Kyiv City Notary District.
Then Berezhnaya went into politics and in 2007, at the age of 27, she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions, where she was a member of the justice committee.
In 2011, she again got into parliament, having been elected in one of the districts of the Kharkiv region. Berezhnaya served as First Deputy Head of the European Integration Committee. After Euromaidan, Berezhnaya went into opposition, sharply criticizing the government and speaking out against the military conflict in the Donbass and the glorification of Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War.
In Croatia, at the age of 36, the former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Irina Berezhnaya, died.
At the age of 37, a Ukrainian politician, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Irina Berezhnaya, passed away. The cause of death was a car accident in Croatia.
Irina crashed on a serpentine on the Adriatic coast between Italy and Croatia. The car accident happened on August 5 in the morning.
The driver who drove Berezhnaya with her eight-year-old daughter, most likely, lost control, and the car flew off the serpentine. The ex-deputy and the driver died on the spot. The daughter, who was also in the car, received minor injuries, her life is not in danger - she was sitting in the back of the car seat and was wearing a seat belt.
Later, the Croatian publication Splitski dnevnik reported the details of the accident. The accident happened at about 1:30 am on Saturday on the highway between the cities of Maslenitsa and Posedarye.
Berezhnaya, her 8-year-old daughter and the driver were driving in a Mercedes car with Bulgarian license plates. The 38-year-old driver, who also died in the crash, was a Bulgarian citizen. The child was hospitalized in a hospital in the city of Zadar.
At the age of 19, she opened a travel company, which soon turned into a profitable business project.
In 2002, she graduated from the Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in Jurisprudence.
During her studies, Irina Berezhnaya completed an internship at the State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market. From 1999 to 2000, she worked in the Division for Investigation of Offenses on the Securities Market of the Control and Legal Department. She has served as Assistant Advisor to the Head of the Legislative Subcommittee.
From February 1 to March 19, 2004, she worked as Deputy Director for Civil Law Issues at Astraya-Service.
In January 2004, having passed the qualification exam, she received a certificate of the right to engage in notarial activities, and in March she registered as a private entrepreneur. For three years of work, the notary office of I. G. Berezhnoy has become one of the most famous and successful in Kyiv, and in 2008 it received the European Quality award from the European Business Assembly (Oxford). In 2007, Irina defended her dissertation and received a Ph.D. in law (according to the Bologna system of education).
In September 2008, the Nomination Committee of the European Business Assembly and the Academic Council of the International University of Vienna awarded Irina Berezhnaya the international title of Honorary Professor of the International University of Vienna, noting her contribution to the development of international relations in the field of science, politics, education and business.
In 2009, she received her second higher education in the specialty "Public Administration" at the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.
Irina Berezhnaya in politics:
In September 2007, Irina Berezhnaya was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation from the Party of Regions. He is a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Justice, head of the Subcommittee on the protection of the rights, freedoms, interests of citizens and systematization, adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to international legal standards in the field of justice and the status of judges of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Justice.
She took an active civic position, took part in congresses of public organizations of Ukraine - the Association of Lawyers of Ukraine, the Notary Chamber of Ukraine, the European Business Association and so on.
In 2012 she was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Irina is also known to the public for the Dancing with the Stars project, which aired in 2007 on the 1 + 1 TV channel: in the show, she, as the official notary of the project, announced the results of the audience voting.
Since 2008, she hosted the author’s program “Your Right with Irina Berezhnaya” on the Radio Era radio station, in which she advised Ukrainians on legal issues and helped to use national legislation in real life to protect the violated rights of citizens.
In her political positions, Irina Berezhnaya was a moderate politician who advocated reforms in the legal and judicial systems of Ukraine. Together with Andrey Pinchuk, she was the author of a bill banning the sale of alcohol at night.
Through the efforts of Irina Berezhnaya, the visa center of the Italian Embassy in Ukraine was officially opened, thanks to which Kharkiv residents can obtain visas without leaving their hometown.
After the Euromaidan, she remained a member of the Party of Regions, sharply criticized the coup d'état and the Maidan government that came to power. She condemned the "anti-terrorist operation" (ATO) carried out by the Ukrainian security forces.
As for relations with Russia, she was convinced that, regardless of the foreign policy vector, the authorities have no right to break Ukraine's cultural ties with Russia.
Personal life of Irina Berezhnaya:
She did not publish details of her personal life. In July 2009, she gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Daniella. The father's name was kept secret. Irina almost never showed her daughter in public and in a photo on social networks. If I was photographed with her, then only from the back.
According to rumors, the father of her daughter is Boris Fuksman, who is much older than her - one of the co-owners of the 1 + 1 channel, included in the lists of the richest people in Ukraine.
She called travel and equestrian sports her hobby, to which Nestor Shufrich introduced her.
