Elizaveta Glinka Explained

Elizaveta Glinka
Birth Name:Elizaveta Petrovna Sidorova
Birth Date:20 February 1962
Birth Place:Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Black Sea near Sochi, Russia
Occupation:Public figure, social worker, medical doctor specialized in palliative medicine
Spouse:Gleb Glebovich Glinka
Awards:

Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka (Russian: Елизавета Петровна Глинка, also known as Dr. Liza (Russian: Доктор Лиза); 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 crash of a Russian military plane en route to Syria.[1]

Early life

Glinka was born in Moscow. 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. Upon return to Russia, she started working at the First Moscow Hospice, founded by Nuyta Federmesser's mother Vera Millionshikova.[2] In the late 1990s when Glinka's husband, Gleb Glebovich Glinka, was transferred to Kyiv, Ukraine for two years, she moved to Kyiv and worked on creating palliative care in Kyiv's oncology center. In September 2001 with the help of VALE Hospice International she opened the first public hospice in Kyiv. In 2007, when her mother became gravely ill, Glinka returned to Moscow.

Career

Glinka's first charity project began in 1999, when she opened the first public hospice in Kyiv, Ukraine. She later founded the VALE Hospice International fund based in USA[3] and served as a board member of the Vera Hospice Charity Fund in Moscow.[4]

In 2007 she founded a humanitarian NGO 'Spravedlivaya Pomoshch' (in English, Fair Care, Fair Aid or Fair Help). The organization worked to support terminally ill cancer patients and underprivileged and homeless people by providing medical supplies, financial and legal aid, and other essential services.[5] [6] [7] The Fair Care Foundation led numerous public initiatives. The foundation helped the homeless and provided food and medical assistance, offered palliative care programs to gravely ill patients, collected and distributed humanitarian aid to victims of natural disasters.[5]

In January 2012 Glinka along with fifteen other media figures and opposition activists founded the League of Voters as a reaction to the 2011 protests against the election results.[8] 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.[9]

The 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.[10] Since November, 2012 Glinka was a member of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights (HRC).[11] [12]

Ukraine War

With the outbreak of the War in Donbass Glinka became involved with moving Ukrainian children from territory held by pro-Russian separatists. Children were moved across the state border without permission from authorities, leading to accusations of child abduction from Ukrainian government officials.[13]

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.[14] [15] Despite Russian military forces taking part in the war, Glinka said that she didn't see Russian troops in Donetsk and that the conflict was a civil war.[16] [17]

Awards

In 2012 Glinka received the Order of Friendship award, and in 2015 the Decoration "For Beneficence".[18] [19] 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.[20]

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.[21] [22] The criminal case on the crash was closed in 2019 due to the absence of a crime.[23]

Personal life

Glinka was married to a bankruptcy attorney, Gleb Glinka.[24]

Legacy

After her death, Doctor Liza's Foundation 'Spravedlivaya Pomosh' kept working, in a few years it was expanded and registered as an International Fund. With the time, psychological help was added along with socialization initiatives to reintroduce former homeless people to the society. .[25] On February 20, 2018, the new charity fund 'Doctor Liza' was established by her former colleagues, Gleb Glinka was invited to head the Board.[26] Liza's friend Lana Jurkina founded 'House of Friends' charity organization that also helps the homeless people.[12]

Glinka was known to be friends with British journalist Graham Phillips, who made a film about Glinka, after her death. [27] [28]

Awards, honours, and tributes

After her death different Russian ministers and Chechen pro-Russian leaders announced the naming of health and care institutions after Glinka:

In March 2021 a monument to Doctor Liza was opened in Russian Krasnogorsk near the children rehabilitation centre.[39]

Portrayals

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Litvinova . Daria . 26 December 2016 . The Time She Didn't Come Back Alive . The Moscow Times.
  2. Web site: Eroshok, Z. . ru . Лиза ГЛИНКА (Доктор Лиза) о том, как помогать людям, чьи убеждения тебе чужды. Liza Glinka: How to Help people whose Ideas are Alien to You . Novaya Gazeta . 2014-10-27 . 2022-05-15.
  3. http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/elisabeth-glinka/hospicevale Page at FirstGiving
  4. http://www.hospicefund.ru/fund/management/ Fund management on the official Vera page
  5. Web site: ru . Глинка, Елизавета Петровна. Glinka, Elizaveta Petrovna . TASS . 2022-05-15.
  6. Web site: ru . Фонд Доктора Лизы продолжает вести проект "Вокзал по средам" для бездомных. Doctor Liza's Foundation Continues Project 'Wednesday Help' . RIA Novosti . 2017-01-07 . 2022-05-15.
  7. Web site: Polonskaya, L. . ru . Не холодные времена . philanthropy.ru . 2021-11-25 . 2022-05-15.
  8. http://tass.com/archive/668256 League of Voters not to support individual politicians or parties
  9. https://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2012/02/01/n_2187781.shtml Federal Tax Service froze financial assets of Dr. Liza's charity fund
  10. http://rbth.com/articles/2012/11/09/post-election_schism_in_russias_opposition_parties_19949.html Post-election schism in Russia’s opposition parties
  11. http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/36280 President's decree № 1513 from 12 November 2012
  12. Web site: Shenkman, J. . ru . Лана Журкина: "Героизм — это затыкание дыр". Lana Jurkina: 'We're Heroically Plugging Holes' . Novaya Gazeta . 2022-01-10 . 2022-05-15.
  13. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38441939 Russian plane crash: The victims
  14. Web site: Doctor Lisa will bring to the Russian Federation of 18 children from Donbass. news.rin.ru. 2016-12-28.
  15. Web site: Fund Dr. Lisa came for a check. news.rin.ru. 2016-12-28.
  16. Dr. Liza: I have nothing to say to my critics and advisers interview by the Orthodoxy and Peace website, 31 October 2014 (in Russian)
  17. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36575180 US Nato general fears rapid Russian troop deployments
  18. Web site: ru . Доктор Лиза награждена знаком отличия "За благодеяние" . Miloserdie.ru . 2015-05-22 . 2022-05-15.
  19. Web site: ru . Не было такой и не будет: к годовщине смерти Елизаветы Глинки . There Will be No One Like Her: Doctor Liza Death Anniversary . Russian State Duma . 2019-12-25 . 2022-05-15.
  20. News: For life and against war: How Russia will remember Yelizaveta Glinka. Yegorov. Oleg. 2016-12-26. Russia Beyond The Headlines. en-US. 2016-12-28.
  21. Web site: ru . СМИ сообщили об опознании Доктора Лизы среди жертв крушения Ту-154. Doctor Liza's Remains Identified among Victims of Tu-154 crash . RBC . 2017-01-13 . 2022-05-15.
  22. Web site: ru . На Ту-154 находились доктор Лиза и военный дирижер Валерий Халилов. Doctor Liza was onboard of crashed Tu-154 . Rossiyskaya Gazeta . 2016-12-25 . 2022-05-15.
  23. Web site: Smirnov, S. . ru . Дело об авиакатастрофе доктора Лизы закрыто, постановление засекречено . The Bell . 2019-12-19 . 2022-05-15.
  24. Web site: "Dr. Liza" dies in Russian crash: Rutland Herald Online. www.rutlandherald.com. 2016-12-28. 28 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161228202741/http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20161225/THISJUSTIN/161229713/0/ELECTIONS. dead.
  25. Web site: ru . Благотворительный фонд "Справедливая помощь Доктора Лизы" сменит руководство. 'Spravedlivaya Pomosh' Charity Foundation Renamed in Doctor Liza's Honour . Interfax . 2018-07-06 . 2022-05-15.
  26. Web site: Ivanushkin, G. . ru . Последователи: как продолжается работа Доктора Лизы . Agency of Social Information . 2019-03-29 . 2022-05-15.
  27. Web site: 2017 . ru:Грэм Филлипс снимет фильм про Доктора Лизу для британцев и американцев . Graham Phillips is making a film about Doctor Liza for a British and American audience . https://pravoslavie.fm/novosti/gryem-fillips-snimet-film-pro-doktora/. ru.
  28. Web site: January 24, 2017 . ENGLISH-LANGUAGE "DR. LIZA" DOCUMENTARY TO BE FILMED .
  29. http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201205030004 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 2 мая 2012 года № 548 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
  30. News: Доктор Лиза и Евгений Примаков получили премию Андрея Первозванного. РИА Новости. 2017-01-17.
  31. News: В Москве назвали лауреатов премии "Своя колея". ТАСС. 2017-01-17.
  32. http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201503230002?index=8&rangeSize=1&back=False Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 23 марта 2015 года № 151 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
  33. News: Елизавета Глинка была награждена знаком отличия "За благодеяние". РИА Новости. 2017-01-17.
  34. News: Украинская церковь наградила Доктора Лизу орденом святого Луки. РИА Новости. 2017-01-17.
  35. News: В Москве по инициативе Бориса Гребенщикова состоится рок-фестиваль в память о Докторе Лизе. 2017-01-17.
  36. News: Именем Елизаветы Глинки назовут больницу Минобороны. 2017-01-17.
  37. Web site: Several Russian hospitals to be named after Elizaveta Glinka. russkiymir.ru. 2016-12-28.
  38. News: Детскому военному санаторию в Крыму присвоили имя Елизаветы Глинки. 2017-01-17.
  39. Web site: ru . Памятник Доктору Лизе установили в Подмосковье. Monument to Doctor Liza Opened in Moscow Region . Interfax . 2021-03-17 . 2022-05-15.
  40. Web site: ru . "Потому что честно". На Хитровке прошел показ фильма о Елизавете Глинке. 'Because its Fair': Documentary on Doctor Liza Shown in Khitrovka . Higher School of Economics . 2017-03-05 . 2022-05-15.
  41. Web site: ru . В Москве вспоминают Доктора Лизу . Agency of Social Information . 2018-12-25 . 2022-05-15.
  42. News: Три фильма о докторе Лизе (видео). 2017-01-17.

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