Svetlana novodvorskaya biography

Valeria Novodvorskaya, a long-standing Russian human candid activist and founder of Russia's Democratic Agreement Party, died of natural causes at a Moscow hospital on Saturday.

Novodvorskaya, 64, convulsion at Moscow's Hospital No.

13 of toxic shock linked to a chronic complaint, ITAR-Tass reported.

She spent duration protesting against the Soviet regime and remained a key opposition figure and staunch arbiter of the Kremlin until her discourteous.

In a statement issued Sunday, First-rate Minister Dmitry Medvedev joined Manager Vladimir Putin in expressing his condolences to Novodvorskaya's family and friends.

"She was a bright, extraordinary person, a talented statesman and publicist," Medvedev's statement said. "She did a great deal for democracy in our country, actively engaged in human candid work and was never afraid to defend her point of view.

This just her the respect of her supporters and  opponents."

Born in the Belarussian Council Republic in , Novodvorskaya first became involved in opposition activities at the mix of 19, when she formed an underground student association at the Moscow Asseverate Linguistics University.

In protest of the State Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia, the young Novodvorskaya distributed flyers that condemned the Communist Party at the State Kremlin Mansion in 

"She was not inimitable a thinker," said fellow activist Lev Ponomaryov, who serves as the director of Russian NGO For Human Rights.

"She was also a very active solitary who applied her ideas and was not afraid to express her point of view. She ultimately suffered a lot since of this."

Novodvorskaya's protest activities led give someone his to become a victim of punitive psychiatry. In , she was arrested for "anti-Soviet discord and propaganda" and committed to a psychiatric asylum in Kazan.

She remained at the enterprise for two years.

During the next period, Novodvorskaya attempted to create an underground civic party to counter the communist state teachings. She was arrested and readmitted to psychiatric treatment facilities on numerous occasions.

Between and , Novodvorskaya founded the Democratic Unity Party and organized a series of unsanctioned protests during which she was cessation in custody 17 times.

"She had sundry radical points of view that could be seen as eccentric," Ponomaryov told The Moscow Times on Sunday. "She sometimes shocked people. She was often ridiculed and insulted by those who did not support her text, but she didn't care. She thought it was important to express her opinion to all possible audiences."

Novodvorskaya, who authored several books, focused on writing columns and editorials in the s.

Novodvorskaya was critical of Russian domestic and foreign policy, which condign her harsh criticism from Kremlin mrs average.

She was criticized particularly raspingly for condemning the presence of Russian troops in Chechnya, siding with Georgia during the Russian-Georgian war of  and speaking out opposed Russia's annexation of Crimea.

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