Background
Alla Yaroshinskaya was born on February 14, 1953 in Zhitomir, Zhytomyrs'ka Oblast', Ukraine, in the family of Alexander Yaroshinsky and Lubov Yaroshinskaya (Poddubnaya).
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Alla Yaroshinskaya was born on February 14, 1953 in Zhitomir, Zhytomyrs'ka Oblast', Ukraine, in the family of Alexander Yaroshinsky and Lubov Yaroshinskaya (Poddubnaya).
In 1976 Alla received Doctor of Philosophy at Kiev State University. She also attended the professional course of the Japan Newspapers and Editors Association in 1992, and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Academy of Education in 1994.
Alla was a member of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1991, Deputy to the Minister of Press and Information until 1993, and then Adviser to the Russian President Boris Yeltsin and member of the Russian Presidential Council. She has been a prominent campaigner for perestroika and for better aid and information following the Chernobyl disaster. She was President of the Ecological Charity Fund, and is Co-chair of the Russian Ecological Congress, Chief of the Federal Council of the all-Russian Social Democratic Movement and a member of other international committees. Alla is the author or co-author of over 20 books and over 700 articles on freedom of speech, human rights, nuclear ecology, and nuclear security. She also began self-publishing a newspaper, Stenogramma, promoting resistance to the Soviet totalitarian regime.
Alla is especially known for her work about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power facility in 1986, an event that signalled a turning point in her own life. She was a 1992 recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 as part of the 1000 PeaceWomen project. She also received the Ukrainian Zolote Pero ("Golden Feather") award.
Yaroshinskaya initiated many democratic laws in Russia and Ukraine.
Yaroshinskaya was a rebelious person, which she proved being a political dissident.
On August 18, 1982, Alla married Alexander Kalko, with whom she has two children, Milan and Alexander.
