Irina Berezhna

Irina Hryhorivna Berezhna , ; 13 August 1980 – 5 August 2017) was a Ukrainian politician from the Party of Regions who was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2007 to 2014.

Early life and career Irina Berezhna was born in 1980 in Voroshylovhrad (present-day Luhansk), in what was then the Soviet Union. In 2002, she graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a specialisation in jurisprudence.

In 2009, she graduated from the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine with a degree in public administration.

After training in her major, as provided by applicable law, in January 2004, she successfully passed the qualification exam, received a license for notarial activities, and worked as a trainee notary in Kyiv. Chairman of the Subcommittee on rights, freedoms, and interests of citizens and systematizing, an adaptation of Ukraine's legislation to international legal standards in the field of justice and the status of judges of the Supreme Rada of Ukraine Committee on Justice Member of the Ukrainian part of the Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union Head of the Group for interparliamentary relations with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Republic of Algeria Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the United States of America Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Poland Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Russia Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Republic of Korea Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Federal Republic of Germany She did not participate in the 2014 parliamentary election.

Personal life Berezhna had a daughter Daniella, born in 2009. It is not officially known who the father of Daniella is; although Ukrainian media reports claim it is businessman Boris Fuksman.

Death and funeral Irina Berezhna died on 5 August 2017 in a car accident near the Adriatic Sea coast of Croatia.

The driver lost control, and the car went off the winding road. Her daughter survived. Two others perished in the crash: a female of 37 and a 38-year-old male, a citizen of Bulgaria.

A Mercedes with a Bulgarian license plate was driving towards Posedarje, but for unknown reasons, left the road and ran into a pole. As a result of the road incident, an 8-year-old child in the car was injured. The girl was taken to a hospital in the city of Zadar.

On 10 August 2017, in the Refectory Church of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a memorial service was held, which was attended by a number of politicians and celebrities, including People's Deputies Dmytro Dobkin Nestor Shufrych, Hanna Herman, Davyd Zhvania, Mykola Martynenko, Ihor Huzhva, Olha Freimut, Svetlana Loboda, and others.

According to Strana.ua, Berezhna's daughter was to be fostered by Boris Fuksman.