Nelya Shtepa | |
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Неля Штепа | |
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Mayor of Sloviansk | |
In office 31 October 2010 – 9 July 2014 | |
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Born | Sloviansk Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR | 13 September 1960
Nelya Ihorivna Shtepa (Ukrainian: Неля Ігорівна Штепа; Russian: Не́ля И́горевна Ште́па, Nelia Igorevna Shtepa) is a Ukrainian politician. She was mayor of Sloviansk from 2010 until 2014, when Russian paramilitary troops[1][2] occupied the city. She was imprisoned by the separatists because she refused to fully co-operate with them, freed by Ukrainian forces, but then imprisoned again by Ukrainian authorities for alleged collusion with the Donetsk People's Republic.