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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn [a] [b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) [6] [7] was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.
In the 1950s, Soviet dissidents started leaking criticism to the West by sending documents and statements to foreign diplomatic missions in Moscow. [13] In the 1960s, Soviet dissidents frequently declared that the rights the government of the Soviet Union denied them were universal rights, possessed by everyone regardless of race, religion and nationality. [14]
Natalya Alyakina, a free-lance correspondent for German news outlets, was shot dead in June by a soldier after clearing a Russian checkpoint near Budyonnovsk. [ 175 ] Shamkhan Kagirov, a reporter for the Moscow daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta and the local Vozrozhenie newspaper, was shot and killed in an ambush in Chechnya.
Russian dissidents St Petersburg Russia: Russian state security service: Norbert Zongo: 1998: 13 December Burkinabé publisher Sapouy Burkina Faso: Burkinabé agents Bishop Juan José Gerardi: 1998: 26 April Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop San Sebastian Church Guatemala: Guatemalan military personnels Larisa Yudina: 1998: 8 June Russian ...
Georgi Vins was born in the Russian Far East to Peter Vins, an American citizen of Russian origin who had traveled to Siberia just two years before as a missionary, and Lydia (Zharikova) Vins. Peter was arrested in 1930, freed three years later but re-arrested in 1935 and died in prison in 1943.
The sudden death of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable antagonist has left an open wound in Russia's political opposition. Alexei Navalny, 47, was the Kremlin's best-known critic ...
List of Soviet and Russian assassinations may refer to: List of Soviet assassinations; List of Russian assassinations This page was last edited on 15 ...
Found dead after falling from her apartment in a high-rise building in Moscow 2024. [105] Dzianis Sidarenka: 48 Ambassador to Germany 24 June 2024 1 Minsk: Found dead after falling out of a window after interrogation, suspected suicide. [106] July Valentina Bondarenko 82 Economist 23 July 2024 1 Moscow