Valery Abramkin, who has died at 66, was a quiet and remarkably consistent person. In 1980 he went on a … More
Category: Obituaries
Leonard Ternovsky, 1933-2006
“A word already spoken, lives on”, Academician Andrei Sakharov said from exile in the dark days of 1980. “The human … More
Tatyana Velikanova, 1932-2002
Tatyana Velikanova’s intelligent smiling face came out of the shadows only in 1979 when she was arrested for the most … More
Anna Politkovskaya (1958-2006)
The Russian investigative journalist, who received an ovation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005, was shot dead in … More
Larisa Bogoraz (1929-2004)
Dissident under the slogan “For Your Freedom and Ours”. “The glory of Soviet science is talked of loudly and at … More
Kronid Lyubarsky (1935-1996)
For over 25 years, Kronid Lyubarsky was one of the driving forces behind the human rights movement in Russia. His … More
