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...Natalya Dmitruk walked onstage to accept her Time 2005 European Heroes award, she whispered to her Russian translator: "I can't believe I'm here with all these amazing people." That's certainly how we felt at Time in the presence of 25 of the individuals we had selected to feature in our third annual European Heroes special issue. Dmitruk, who's from Ukraine, was there because last fall she dared to tell the truth about the country's rigged presidential election. Some of the other Heroes at last month's London event included screenwriter Richard Curtis and musician...
...ironic that your portrait of Natalya Dmitruk, the courageous translator and signer to the deaf for the Ukrainian state-run television station ut-1, included a reference to her parents as "deaf mute." Deaf people are just that: deaf. The erroneous and condescending term deaf mute went out in the 1950s. Please don't revive it. Robbin Battison Stockholm...
...land of the blind, the old saying has it, the one-eyed man is king. In a country intimidated into silence, a signer for the deaf was among the first to speak out. Not that Natalya Dmitruk, 48, planned it that way in the fall of 2004, when she worked as a signer for the Ukrainian state-run television station UT-1. The runoff for the presidential elections had just taken place, and the tightly controlled TV broadcasters were reporting that outgoing President Leonid Kuchma's favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, had beaten challenger Viktor Yushchenko. But evidence was mounting that...
...revolution that rippled across Ukraine last week. On Thursday, as the presenter of state-controlled UT1's main morning news program was updating viewers on the Central Electoral Commission's decision to declare Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of the country's Nov. 21 presidential vote, Natalya Dmitruk, the woman who translates broadcasts into sign language, decided to send a very different message. "When the presenter started to read the news," Dmitruk tells TIME, "I said, 'I address all deaf viewers. Yushchenko is our President. Do not believe the Electoral Commission. They are lying.'" In a week filled with...
Beside Okunseinde, who is also a Crimson editor, this e-mail was signed by BSA board members Anne M. Morris ’04, Alana V. Davis ’06, Yata P. Kande ’04, Jennifer N. Wynn ’06 and Natalya S. Davis...