The Independent: Valeriya Novodvorskaya: Politician and dissident who dedicated her life to protesting against Soviet repression for five decades
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Valeriya Novodvorskaya
Valeriya Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya was a Russian and Soviet dissident, writer and liberal politician. She was the founder and the chairwoman of the Democratic Union party and a member of the editorial board of The New Times.
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culture · Soviet dissident (1950–2014) · politician · opinion journalist · political activist · journalist · writer · poet · librarian · translator · pedagogue · teacher · also Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Valeriya Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya, Valeria Novodvorskaya, Novodvorskaya
Born 17 May 1950 · Died 12 July 2014 · Q463501
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2014· 4 entries
Died 2014-07-12.
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Published video “Олимпиада в Сочи - Новодворская, Боровой”.
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Published video “С Рождеством - Новодворскя, Боровой”.
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2013· 8 entries
Published video “С Новым 2014 Годом - Новодворскя, Боровой”.
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Published video “Майдан - Новодворская, Боровой”.
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Published video “Интервью Ходорковского - Новодворская, Боровой”.
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Published video “Фотография с Тягнибоком - Новодворская, Боровой”.
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Published video “Обращение В Новодворской 2”.
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Published video “Ходорковский - Новодворская, Боровой”.
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Published video “Приветствие В Новодворской Майдану”.
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Published video “Амнистия - Боровой, Новодворская 1 6”.
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2009· 1 entry
Novodvorskaya published an autobiographical book, Farewell of Slavianka
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2008· 1 entry
Career landmark: Participated in Visiting Dmitry Gordon (tournament / event).
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1996· 1 entry
Career landmark: Participated in Odin na odin (tournament / event).
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1990· 1 entry
Novodvorskaya was baptized by the non-canonical Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Reunited
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1969· 1 entry
When she was 19, for distributing leaflets that criticized the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
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1950· 3 entries
Born 1950-05-17.
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Jew, member of the Komsomol, secondary education, student at the Torez Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow) […] In December 1969, in the Kremlin Hall of Performances, she scattered a large number of anti-Soviet leafle
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In Baranavichy, Byelorussian SSR to a Jewish engineer, Ilya Borisovich (Boruchovich) Burshtyn, and a pediatrician, Nina Feodorovna Novodvorskaya, who came from a noble Russian family
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