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Oleksandra Kazarovytska (Kolesnikova), co-founder of the Professional<\/em> language school in Kharkiv, has died in occupied Crimea. The school reported<\/a> her death on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her colleagues say that the Russian authorities have attributed her death to suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This summer, Oleksandra Kazarovytska travelled to Sevastopol, where her parents live, to help them sell their flat and move. \u2018She was detained there. They found correspondence between her and a volunteer dating back to the beginning of the full-scale invasion,\u2019<\/em> the school\u2019s post says. According to her colleagues, she spent three months in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oleksandra Kazarovytska was 44. According to her social media page, she was born in Sevastopol. \u2018Sasha came from a military family and travelled all over the Soviet Union with her parents as a child. When her father retired, he chose to settle in Sevastopol. Sasha herself spent almost all her adult life in Kharkiv, where her grandmother lived,\u2019<\/em> her colleagues write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2004, she graduated<\/a> from the School of Foreign Languages at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and went on to work as a teacher and translator. At Professional<\/em>, she was director of studies. She is survived by her husband and daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-67724","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","regions-sevastopol-en","news-type-nashi-novosti-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKharkiv teacher dies after inprisonment in occupied Crimea - Political prisoners support. 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