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![Olha Kuryshko]( "Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea")
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Can a nation heal if its wounds keep reopening? On May 18, Ukraine marks 81 years since the Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars. Russia’s repression continues, but so does Crimea’s resistance.
Olha Kuryshko
Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Olha Kuryshko, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, is a lawyer, advocacy expert, and former deputy chair of the board of the NGO CrimeaSOS (2016–2021).
Since 2015, she has been involved with CrimeaSOS, where she provided legal assistance to residents of the temporarily occupied peninsula and those who fled. In 2021, she joined the team at the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, where she worked on strategic and policy documents related to the liberation and reintegration of the Crimean Peninsula.
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