Aurica Bojescu

Aurica Bojescu (Ukrainian: Ауріка Василівна Божеску, romanized: Aurika Vasylivna Bozhesku) is a Ukrainian lawyer, minority rights activist and politician of Romanian ethnicity. She is a representative of the Romanian community in Ukraine, being an advocate for minority rights for the ethnic minorities of the country. Bojescu also contributed to the drafting of the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine and was a member of the Chernivtsi Oblast Council for many years.

Aurica Bojescu
Born
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
NationalityUkrainian
Occupation(s)Lawyer, minority rights activist, politician

Biography

Aurica Bojescu is an ethnic Romanian from Chernivtsi (Romanian: Cernăuți), Ukraine.[1] She is a lawyer, and was one of the specialists that participated in the redaction of the 1996 Constitution of Ukraine.[1][2] From 1998 to 2014, she was a member of the Chernivtsi Oblast Council, serving affiliated to the Party of Regions from 2006 to 2014.[3] She also worked as an assistant for politician Eduard Matviychuk.[4] In 2005, Bojescu published Situația minorităților românești din Ucraina ("Situation of the Romanian Minorities of Ukraine"), a study on the Romanians in Ukraine.[5]

Bojescu has often acted as a representative for the Romanian minority in the region of Northern Bukovina,[6][7] and has actively protested against the deficient situation regarding the minority rights of the Ukrainian Romanians (including the Ukrainian self-declared Moldovans),[1][8][9] particularly in Romanian media.[10] Bojescu is the president of the Bukovinian Independent Center for Current Studies. This organization is part of the larger Romanian Community of Ukraine Interregional Union,[1] of which she is the responsible secretary.[8] The Romanian Community of Ukraine Interregional Union is dedicated to supporting legislation in Ukraine offering proper minority rights to national ethnic minorities.[1]

In 2019, Bojescu was one of the several participants in a meeting between the Hungarian politician Zsolt Németh and Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Several matters were discussed during the meeting, including the situation of the minority languages of Ukraine.[6] She also met in 2022 with representatives of the Hungarian minority of Ukraine in the headquarters of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association (KMKSZ).[11]

References
  1. Gherman, Marin (22 December 2022). "Reacție românească din Cernăuți în urma votării noii legi a minorităților din Ucraina: Efectul va fi acela că limba română va fi tot mai puțin vorbită în Ucraina". Libertatea (in Romanian).
  2. Sánchez Costa, Raúl (31 January 2023). "Treatment of ethnic communities pits Ukraine against neighbors Romania and Hungary". El País.
  3. "Божеску Ауріка Василівна" (in Ukrainian). Chesno. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  4. "Стали известны помощники-консультанты нардепов-одесситов. Полный список". Intent (in Ukrainian). 31 January 2015.
  5. Bocancea, Sorin (2018). "Serghei HAKMAN: "Bucovina este un punct fluctuant pe harta Europei"" (PDF). Polis. Revistă de Științe Politice. Seria nouă (in Romanian). 6 (4 (22)): 65–80.
  6. "Meeting of Zsolt Németh and Secretary General Jagland". Permanent Representation of Hungary to the Council of Europe. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  7. "De ce și cum au votat românii din Ucraina la alegerile prezidențiale. Aurica Bojescu la Telefonul de la ora 9". Evenimentul Zilei (in Romanian). 24 April 2019.
  8. "Româncă din Cernăuți, despre cum Ucraina limitează accesul minorităților la limba maternă: "Nu putem accepta asta pentru copiii și școlile noastre"". Jurnalul Național (in Romanian). 24 December 2022.
  9. Bădiliță, Iolanda (12 June 2019). "Aurica Bojescu: "Dorim o colaborare bilaterală cu România pentru a ne putea menține drepturile noastre constituționale din Ucraina" (VIDEO)" (in Romanian). Radio Europa Liberă Moldova.
  10. Bogdan, Sidonia (29 December 2022). "De ce abordarea naționalistă asupra comunității de români din Ucraina o aruncă în brațele Rusiei". PRESShub.
  11. "EU-Erweiterungskommissar in Transkarpatien". Ungarn Heute (in German). 30 September 2022.
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