Natallia Ilyinich not allowed to work in Talka school
This year, a vacancy has
appeared in the Talka school, as one of the teachers was transferred
to the ideological department. Having found about it, Natallia
Ilyinich, who used to work in this school, applied there for
employment. However, as it became known later, another person was
employed instead of her.
Mrs. Ilinich was fired from this
school in 2011, a month after the presidential election, despite the
petitions of the head of the school trade-union organization, parents
of pupils and school leavers.
She worked at the Talka school
for 26 years, created there a local core society and the website
talka.info, issued the book “Talka and Surroundings”,
investigated the national-liberation insurgency of 1863 against the
Russian Empire under the leadership of Kalinouski in the Ihumen
district. Each year she held the Talka festival. Among her former
pupils there philosophers, sociologists, historians and
folklorists.
Natallia Ilyinich is not a member of any
political parties, though she took an active part in a number of
electoral campaigns, collecting signatures for democratic candidates
and working and being election observer.
The teacher applied
to the head of the education department of the Pukhavichy District
Executive Committee Tatsiana Charnyshova, the Education Minister
Siarhei Maskevich and to the court, asking to rehabilitate her at
work. However, all her appeals were fruitless and the court left the
ruling for her dismissal unchanged.