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December 11, 2018

Pioneering Russian Human Rights Activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva Dies at 91
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Russian human rights activist and Soviet dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva
has died at the age of 91. Alexeyeva co-founded the human rights
organization Moscow Helsinki Group and was a typist for an underground
publication chronicling human rights abuses by the Soviet government.
She was exiled for her work and lived in the U.S. before returning to
Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. More recently, she spoke
out against Russian President Vladimir Putin, condemning the 2014
annexation of Crimea and Putin's crackdown on human rights and political
opponents. She continued to participate in street protests into her
eighties and was arrested in 2010.


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