Last week in Horokhiv (Volyn), 15-year-old Volodymyr Z. took his own life. The circumstances under which the boy committed suicide are intertwined with events in the state. Volodya grew up a tall and strong boy. In his 9th grade, the boy stood out among his peers. From childhood he practiced dancing, went to the gym to "pump up" his muscles, and did not lag behind in his studies either. In a word, the first boy on the whole street. So when the Orange Revolution began, Volodya, although not old enough to vote, without hesitation plunged into its whirlpool. How can a 15-year-old schoolboy express his feelings, other than by chanting at a rally on the square of the district center? Of course, with the help of a spray can of paint. ...That evening the boy was taken to the Horokhiv district police department. On the wall Vovka wrote everything he thought about the government's candidate. At the district department they held him almost until evening and then released him – a minor, after all. By the way, at first the police leadership flatly denied the fact that the ninth-grader had been detained. After this incident Volodya ran away from home. Where? To Kyiv, of course, to the Maidan. The boy's mother was beside herself (his father is working abroad in Spain) and set about searching for her son. Through distant relatives she passed a photo to participants of the protest action on Independence Square. Vovka was found in Kyiv and his mother immediately went to get him. To calm her son's patriotic impulse, his mother arranged a small tour of revolutionary Kyiv for him. They went to the Maidan, stocked up on symbols... Nothing foretold trouble. Why Volodya put his head in a noose is currently being established by investigators. In the note he allegedly left, it is written: "I don't want to live like this." The boy hanged himself in the barn. A few meters from him his mother was preparing supper...