Not disclosed patriot murder: life and activity of civil and political figure and journalist Volodymyr Katelnytsky

2022 marks the 25th unniversary of the brutal murder of Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party, Chairman of the Kyiv Regional Organization of the Orthodox Brotherhood Andriy Pervozvanny journalist Volodymyr Katelnytsky and his eighty-year-old mother Lukeriia Yeyiseyivna at their home, in the Ukrainian capital. Both are natives of the Danyna village, Nizhyn district, Chernihiv region. The murder has not been solved. The purpose of the work is to analyze the folders of Ukrainian newspapers of the 1990s in two ways: to identify journalistic articles by journalist V. Katelnytsky on historical topics and to systematize and study materials in which the case of V. Katelnytsky was discussed, as well as to record the memories of this personality’s colleagues. Tasks of work. Firstly, to create a sociopolitical portrait of the Volodymyr Katelnytsky, characterize him as an outstanding sociopolitical, religious figure and journalist. Scientific methods which were used are analysis and synthesis (on the basis of study of newspaper texts). The novelty of the article is that this is the first attempt to systematize and analyze the creative work of the journalist in the specifics of his interests in little-known pages of Ukrainian history, to study the nature of professional and social activities, the circumstances of the murder and the reasons for not solving the crime. Conclusions. The law enforcement system of the first years of independent Ukraine was not interested in objectively revealing the murders of patriotic public and political activists, as well as journalists who steadfastly defended the Ukraine-centric position. V. Katelnytsky’s sociopolitical journalismis mostly devoted to two topics: little-known and ideologically distorted facts of Ukrainian history and the problem of the Muscovite excommunication of the Ukrainian Church. There is now an urgent need to organize and publish such texts, because they were published in periodicals that are not currently available on the Internet