They first met in 2011 at a seminar in Moscow. He is a human rights activist from Ossetia and was the coordinator of the committee of victims of the September 1, 2004 Beslan school terrorist attack. She lived in Yalta, headed the Center for Public Education "Almenda". Vissarion confessed to Olga a week later at the airport, a few minutes before the plane took off.

"So such romantic dates, it was not, because we were always in the company of other people. And in the morning he escorted me to the airport in Simferopol and for me it was very unexpected, because when we said goodbye at the airport - he immediately offered me to become his wife. I just graduated from university. It seemed to me that it was too much for me and a man of that age, it was very funny, then it seemed unreal to me", - human rights activist Olga Skrypnyk said.

Olga remembers with a smile how others reacted to their relationship with Vissarion.

"It was very stereotypical, it is clear that I was discussed by everyone everywhere. My mother also worked in Yalta and she said who just did not tell me about the relationship with Vissarion. I am very grateful to my mother, in general, for everything she endures in my life , because an unusual man appears in my life, my mother did not say anything, she fully supported me, because she always said - the main thing is that the children were happy and for her it was not words, she lives by it", - Skrypnyk said.

In the summer of 2014, the couple got married in one of the Kyiv registry offices. In one of the photos, the bride in a wedding dress with her husband in an embroidered shirt unfurled a Ukrainian flag near the Russian Embassy in Kyiv.

Source: Olga Skripnik

The wedding is completely different, not the one we planned, but it was what it should have been in this period, in 2014. It was very funny, because Vissarion comes in an embroidered shirt, you have to give the documents for painting. And the registrar who has to paint us, takes this passport, and it's a Russian passport, and it's embroidered and the face is not Russian at all. And it was so funny, she looked at it all and so confused, but she was very pleased. She understands that a person makes a certain choice and a choice in this direction. And she just flourished during our painting, she was probably happier than we are. I had to tell him what to answer, and it looked like she was asking, "Do you agree to marry Olga Skrypnyk?" I told him - yes, he - yes, "because he still did not understand what she was saying", - the human rights activist said.

The couple is currently raising a three-year-old daughter. Olga shares how she manages to combine motherhood and active work of a human rights activist.

"Our relationship after the birth of a child is a natural continuation of the way we treat each other. And I often joke here that my husband is a greater feminist than I am. He believes in me sometimes more than I do in myself. He gives me so many opportunities to move on, so when it comes to motherhood, it's probably here to talk about it - he took on everything he could. After giving birth in 2 or 3 weeks, I was at the first event", - human rights activist Olga Violinist said.

"I've always known that she has great potential. One of my tasks as a family woman is to give her the opportunity to realize that potential. I'm glad that we can help people not the way we want. Of course, I would like more, but at least we can do it and we succeed", - human rights activist Vissarion Aseyev said.

The human rights activist also emphasizes that what they are doing is not only about Crimea, but also about what is happening with Ukraine in general.

"Each of us can do what we have to do to prevent this war, so that at least our children do not know what war is. So the first thing I want to do is show my child my home", - Skrypnyk concluded.

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