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Elizaveta Glinka
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Born
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Elizaveta Petrovna Sidorova
20 February 1962 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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Died
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Occupation
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Public figure, social
worker, medical doctor specialised in palliative medicine
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Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka (Russian: Елизаве́та Петро́вна
Гли́нка, also known
as Dr. Liza (Russian: До́ктор Ли́за); 20 February 1962 – 25 December 2016)
was a Russian humanitarian worker and charity activist. She was honoured three
times with state awards for her work. Glinka died in the 2016 Russian Defence
Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash.
INTERNET
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizaveta_Glinka
Early
life
Glinka
was born in Moscow. Her father served in military. Her mother Galina Ivanovna
Poskrebysheva was a doctor, as well as a TV presenter and writer of cookbooks and
encyclopedias. She studied at the Russian National Research Medical Institute
in Moscow, graduating in pediatric anesthesiology. In 1986 she emigrated to the
US, where she studied palliative care and became involved with the work
of hospices.
On returning to Russia, she worked at the First Moscow Hospice, after which she
moved to Ukraine.
Career
Glinka's
first charity project began in 1999, when she opened the first public hospice
in Kiev, Ukraine. She
later founded the VALE Hospice International fund based in USA and served as a
board member of the Vera Hospice Charity Fund in Moscow.
In
2007 she founded a humanitarian NGO Spravedlivaya Pomoshch (in English, "Fair Aid" or
"Fair Help"). The organisation works to support terminally ill cancer
patients and underprivileged and homeless people by providing medical supplies,
financial aid and other essential services. In 2010, the organisation collected
and distributed aid for victims of forest fires and in 2012, for those who lost
their homes after floods in the Krasnodar
region of Krymsk.
On
January, 2012 Glinka along with 15 other media figures and opposition activists
including Boris Akunin, Leonid
Parfyonov, Yuri Shevchuk, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Dmitry
Bykov and Sergey Parkhomenko founded the League of Voters
as a reaction to the 2011 protests against the election results.
Their declared aims included observance of electoral rights, organizing mass
marches, training observers and publishing lists of election commissions,
including black lists. Shortly after an unplanned tax inspection arrived to the
offices of Fair Aid. As a result, all financial assets were frozen for a period
of time. On February, 1 they were unblocked, and the Fund continued its work.
Same
year Glinka became a member of the federal civil committee of the Civic Platform and supported Mikhail
Prokhorov during the 2012 Russian presidential election.
Since November, 2012 Glinka was a member of the Russian Presidential Council
for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights (HRC).
With
the outbreak of the War in Donbass Glinka became involved with
evacuating sick and injured children from territory held by pro-Russian
separatists. She moved them to hospitals in Moscow or Saint
Petersburg, where they could receive medical attention. It has been
estimated that she travelled more than 20 times into conflict zones, and saved
about 500 children. Children were moved across the state border without
permission from authorities, leading to accusations of child abduction from Ukrainian government officials. Glinka's
response was that politics was irrelevant in matters of life and death.
Her
organisation was also active in providing medical supplies, equipment and food
to hospitals in Donetsk
and Luhansk,
however Glinka complained that the customs checks for their convoys of trucks
were slow and onerous and delayed delivery of the supplies. Despite NATO's claims that
Russia was supplying heavy weapons and regular troops
to the pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, Glinka said that she didn't see
Russian troops in Donetsk and that there was a civil war going on. She also
delivered medication to the Ukrainian pilot Nadiya
Savchenko during her hunger strike while imprisoned in Russia.
Glinka
was also known for her anti-euthanasia stance; in October 2016 she commented on
the Dutch
draft bill legalising euthanasia, stating the proposed law was
"demonic".
Glinka
and her work were the subject of a documentary film by Elena Pogrebizhskaya. In 2012 Glinka received
the Order of Friendship award, and in 2015 the Decoration "For
Beneficence". In December 2016 Russian President Vladimir
Putin presented her with another national award, the State Prize of the Russian
Federation, for outstanding achievements in charity and human rights
activities.
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Remember Dr. Liza and the victims of 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash
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Death
Glinka
died in the 2016 Russian Defence
Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash on 25 December 2016, while travelling to Latakia to
deliver medical supplies to Tishreen University Hospital.
Personal
life
Glinka
was married to a bankruptcy attorney, Gleb Glinka.
Critics
and controversies
On
October, 2011 Elizaveta Glinka conducted a so-called charity striptease event
to collect money and clothes for the homeless. Volunteers were asked to bring
clean outerwear so that professional strippers would put it on and then take it
off in a dance. The event received mixed reactions, although many agreed that
drawing attention to the homeless at the start of the cold season was a real
problem here.
In
July 2016 PayPal
refused to open an account for Glinka's fund that claimed to be for the care of
children from ''south-east Ukraine" - as described by Izvestia. The
official reasons of refusal were the "security reasons". After media
lobbying on PayPal Russia, it has announced on twitter, that "all problems
has been solved".
In
December 2016 at the air of independent TV station Dozhd, Russian
publicist Stanislav Belkovsky called Glinka the spin doctor of war. He criticised Glinka, saying
that, instead of her trips to war-taken regions of Ukraine and Syria, she could
have just usse her already existing contacts to Vladimir
Putin, from whom she has accepted the state award, to meet him and ask to
end the war with Ukraine. Belkovsky claimed this makes Glinka morally
responsible for the wars (like in Syria and Ukraine) that Russia is holding.
This part of critical comment has been taken down by the TV station.
Nevertheless Belkovsky published on Facebook a statement, that he is not
surprised they did it, but he stands by what he said.
Awards
and special mentions
Glinka
and her work were the subject of a documentary films: "Doktor Liza"
(“Доктор Лиза”) by Elena Pogrebizhskaya, "Вокзал по
средам" by Olga Maurynova and "Встреча" by Margarita Kuklina.
2012
- Order of Friendship award
2014
- international award "Faith and Faithfulness" awarded by the St.
Andrew The Apostle Foundation, where the award committee is lead by the cosmonaut,
Hero of the Soviet Union Oleg Atkov.
The award ceremony is held in Kremlin. This award is perceived as "a
symbol of public recognition of merits before Fatherland in strengthening
statehood, union with countries friendly with Russia, and the restrengthening
of spirituality''.
2015:
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"Own track" - "award
for the people who has not changed their work neither values nor beliefs in the
difficult situation" awarded by the Vlodimir
Vysotsky's Foundation, Russian Ministry of Culture and the Culture
Committee of the city of Moscow;
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the Decoration "For
Beneficence" - decorated by Vladimir Putin. During the ceremony Glinka
thanked him "on behalf of hundreds of mothers Donetsk and Donetsk region,
which have been taken out of the combat zone thanks to his decree";
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Order of Saint Luke - award for care ordered by
the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church of Moscow Patriarchate;
2016:
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State Prize of the Russian
Federation. In December 2016 Russian President Vladimir
Putin presented her with another national award for outstanding
achievements in charity and human rights activities.
After
her death different Russian ministers and Chechen pro-Russian leaders announced
the naming of health and care institutions after Elizaveta Glinka:
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Russian Defense Ministry's medical
facility - announced by the Russian Deputy Minister of Defense, Ruslan
Tsalikov;
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hospice in Yekaterinburg - announced by the city's mayor, Yevgeny
Roizman;
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children sanatorium in Yevpatoria in annected Crimea is also to be named after
Dr. Liza;
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children's clinic in Grozny - announced on twitter by the president of the Chechen Republic,
Ramzan
Kadyrov
Also
a rock-festival "Different People" («Разные люди») has been named
after her.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://dninews.com/article/putin-rewarded-doctor-liza-human-rights-activities-donbass-and-syria
Putin rewarded 'Doctor
Liza' for human rights activities in Donbass and Syria
Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 17:06
By the decree of the Russian President, Vladimir
Putin, the State Award of the Russian Federation is given with a title of
laureate of State Award of the Russian Federation for outstanding achievements
in the sphere of human rights activities to Elizaveta Glinka, executive
director of international public organization «Fair help»
Elizaveta Glinka thanked for the
first award and referred President`s acknowledgement to all colleagues
protecting human rights.
"The main right is a right on life. In this challenging time it is ruthlessly violated. It is very hard for me to see killed and injured children of Donbass, ill and killed children of Syria. We are human rights activists and we are apolitical. We are on the side of peace, dialog and cooperation with all people. I cannot but mention killed doctors in Syria, about killed doctors from Donetsk, about hundreds of killed Donbass children, and thousands of children, buried in Syria. We cherish the memory of them", doctor Liza said.
Glinka's statement is seen in RT News video in time
3:44.
"Tomorrow I will fly to Donetsk, and then to Syria. As well as dozens of other volunteers involved in the humanitarian activities. We are never sure that we would return back alive, because war is a hell on earth. And I know what I am talking about. But we do believe that goodness, compassion and mercy are more powerful than any kind of weapons", doctor Glinka said.
DONi News Agency
A member of the Russian Presidential Council for development of civil society and human rights Yelizaveta Glinka, also known as Dr. Lisa, was on board of the aircraft that crashed in the Black Sea today.
Since the beginning of the war in Donbass, Dr. Lisa had evacuated 495 injured and seriously ill children to Moscow and St. Petersburg for treatment.
We offer our deepest condolences to the families and friends of all those killed. This is a terrible loss and a huge tragedy for us.INTERNET SOURCE:
Doctor Liza is a hero for
Donbass (27 December 2016)
When war
came to Donbass, Elizaveta Glinka, more known as Doctor Liza started arriving
to the DPR and LPR to take wounded children or seriously ill children who
needed aid of specialists.
Elizaveta arrived in time of severe military actions; she took children from shelling and brought them to RF. She came to Donbass regularly and take about 20 small dwellers of Donbass.
Elizaveta arrived in time of severe military actions; she took children from shelling and brought them to RF. She came to Donbass regularly and take about 20 small dwellers of Donbass.
INTERNET SOURCE: http://novorossia.today/doctor-liza-is-a-hero-for-donbass/
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