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Myroslava Gongadze ((ウクライナ語:Миросла́ва Володи́мирівна Гонга́дзе), born 19 June 1972) is a Ukrainian journalist and political activist now living in the United States. Her husband, journalist Georgiy Gongadze, was abducted and murdered in 2000. Since then she has been a prominent advocate for freedom of the press and protection of the safety of reporters in Ukraine, and has continued to work for justice in the case of her husband's murder. ==Biography== Myroslava Petryshyn () was born on June 19, 1972, in Berezhany, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. She earned a Master’s degree in civic law from Lviv University (completed in 1997), and in the early 1990s worked as a legal consultant for local government agencies. During the early 1990s, Petryshyn became involved in journalism and Ukrainian politics. In 1993 she was a specialist in the information department of the journal ''Post-Postup''. In 1994 and 1995 she served as deputy director and director of the press center for the New Wave political alliance (). During 1995 she was the head of the media department for the International Media Center STB (), and in 1998 was the head of public relations for the daily newspaper ''Day'' (). At the same time, Petryshyn became active in filmmaking . She was assistant director of Georgiy Gongadze's documentary short film ''Shadows of War'' (, 1993) about the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict 〔(【引用サイトリンク】script-title=uk:"Тіні війни" на Узвозі )〕 and executive producer of ''Dream Defenders'' (, 1996). Myroslava Petryshyn was married to Georgiy Gongadze in 1995, and their twin daughters were born in 1997. Along with her husband, Myroslava Gongadze continued to work in journalistic projects opposed to the administration of President Leonid Kuchma. In 2000, Georgiy Gongadze was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Secret tape recordings provided by one of the president's bodyguards and released by opposition politicians implicated Kuchma in the crime. The resulting political controversy became known as the cassette scandal, damaged Kuchma's popularity and laid part of the groundwork for the Orange Revolution of 2004. It also brought Myroslava Gongadze to greater prominence as a campaigner for democracy, human rights, and freedom of the press in Ukraine. She has continued to seek justice in the case of her husband's abduction and murder. She and her two children received political asylum in the United States in 2001. In an interview with ''Ukrayinska Pravda'' in February 2005, Myroslava Gongadze said she would come back to Ukraine if her husband's murderers, and those who gave the orders to murder him, were punished. Since arriving in the United States, Gongadze has worked as a TV and radio correspondent for VOA, a freelance correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and a visiting Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In 2001, Gongadze was awarded a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship to study the role of the media in Ukraine's transition to democracy.〔 〕 In October 2009, she was ranked 91st in a top 100 of "most influential women in Ukraine" compiled by experts for the Ukrainian magazine ''Focus.〔 (Рейтинг Фокуса: 100 самых влиятельных женщин и 100 деталей о них ), Focus〕 Gongadze expressed her scepticism about the political state of modern Ukraine in November 2009; in an editorial in ''The Wall Street Journal'', she argued that its democracy was degenerating and its freedom of the press was at risk.〔(Ukraine: A Democracy at Risk ), The Wall Street Journal (November 23, 2009)〕 Since 4 October 2015 Gongadze heads VOA's Ukrainian Service.〔(Myroslava Gongadze to head Voice of America's Ukrainian Service ), Kyiv Post (28 September 2015)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Myroslava Gongadze」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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