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Line 67: In the July [[2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election]], Farion again failed to return to parliament after finishing fifth with 10.35% of the vote in electoral district 116 in Lviv Oblast.<ref>{{cite web |date=24 July 2019 |title=Фаріон і Подоляк поступилися на виборах Княжицькому |url=https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-elections/2746792-farion-i-podolak-postupilisa-na-viborah-knazickomu.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731152144/https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-elections/2746792-farion-i-podolak-postupilisa-na-viborah-knazickomu.html |archive-date=31 July 2019 |access-date=31 July 2019 |lang=uk}}</ref> === In February 2010, on [[International Mother Language Day]], Farion was filmed instructing kindergartners to avoid using Russian names.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Coynash |first1=Halya |date=23 February 2010 |title=Shameful abuse |url=https://khpg.org/en/1266889670 |website=[[Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group]] |access-date=20 July 2024 |archive-date=8 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240708204607/https://khpg.org/en/1266889670 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="korba">{{cite news |last1=Korba |first1=Halyna |date=14 November 2023 |title=Життя і скандали Ірини Фаріон |trans-title=The life and scandals of Iryna Farion |url=https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/c88dp8z0ex3o |access-date=20 July 2024 |work=BBC News Україна |language=uk |archive-date=16 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116164504/https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/c88dp8z0ex3o |url-status=live }}</ref> In one instance, she tells them to "go where the Mashas live" if they wanted to be called Masha; a video of the incident was aired on Russian state television and was widely criticized.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schlegel |first1=Simon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbSrDwAAQBAJ |title=Making Ethnicity in Southern Bessarabia: Tracing the Histories of an Ambiguous Concept in a Contested Land |date=26 August 2019 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-40802-9 |page=189 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bustikova |first1=Lenka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vzKAEAAAQBAJ |title=Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe |date=24 October 2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-48265-3 |page=169 |language=en |quote=Iryna Farion stirred a controversy during her visit to a kindergarten in Lviv... because she scolded five-year-old children for referring to themselves with Russian-sounding first names}}</ref> The incident was also widely discussed and criticized in the Ukrainian media.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Polyakova |first1=Alina |date=2014 |title=From the provinces to the parliament: How the Ukrainian radical right mobilized in Galicia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48610395 |journal=Communist and Post-Communist Studies |volume=47 |issue=2 |page=221 |doi=10.1016/j.postcomstud.2014.04.012 |jstor=48610395 |issn=0967-067X}}</ref> One deputy from the [[Party of Regions]] asked the [[Prosecutor General of Ukraine]] to file a criminal case against her on the grounds of language-based and nationality-based discrimination.<ref name="kobzar" /> | |||