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Vladimir Bukovsky
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was a Soviet and Russian human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well known at home and abroad. He spent a total of twelve years in the psychiatric prison-hospitals, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union during Brezhnev's rule.
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culture · Russian-British human rights activist (1942–2019) · writer · human rights defender · politician · dissident · neurophysiologist · civil rights advocate · author · opinion journalist · also Vladimir Bukovsky, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky, Bukovsky
Born 30 December 1942 · Died 27 October 2019 · Q360471
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2019· 1 entry
Died 2019-10-27.
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2016· 1 entry
It was published in Italian, by Spirali, with the title Gli archivi segreti di Mosca
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2015· 1 entry
British authorities charged Bukovsky with multiple counts of production and possession of child pornography
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2014· 1 entry
Bukovsky was accused in the UK of the possession of child pornography
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2013· 1 entry
Bukovsky was featured in a documentary series by Natella Boltyanskaya Parallels, Events, People
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2009· 1 entry
Bukovsky joined the council of the new Solidarnost coalition which brought together a wide range of extra-parliamentary opposition forces
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2008· 2 entries
Campaign: 2008 presidential candidacy.
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When a successor to Vladimir Putin was elected
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2005· 1 entry
Bukovsky was among the prominent dissidents of the 1960s and 1970s (Gorbanevskaya, Sergei Kovalyov, Eduard Kuznetsov, Alexander Podrabinek, Yelena Bonner) who took part in a documentary series by Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr
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2004· 1 entry
Bukovsky exposed what he saw as the "Soviet roots of European Integration"
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2002· 1 entry
Boris Nemtsov, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia who was then an elected member of the State Duma and leader of the Union of Rightist Forces, paid a visit to Bukovsky in Cambridge
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2001· 3 entries
Won Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom (2001).
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Bukovsky was elected President of the Comitatus pro Libertatibus – Comitati per le Libertà – Freedom Committees in Florence, an Italian libertarian organisation which promoted an annual Memento Gulag, or Memorial Day dev
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Vladimir Bukovsky received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, awarded annually since 1993 by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
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2000· 1 entry
“s Russia Mr Bukovsky, who was imprisoned for more than a decade by the Soviet authorities for his opposition activities, was speaking during his first visit to Russia since President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000.”
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1998· 1 entry
To commemorate and support former dissidents), and a member of the International Council of the New York City-based Human Rights Foundation, Bukovsky was a Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute in Washington, D
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1992· 2 entries
Which confirmed the existence of a "conspiracy" to turn the European Union into a socialist organisation
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After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, President Yeltsin's government invited Bukovsky to serve as an expert witness at the trial before the Constitutional Court where Russia's communists were suing Yeltsin for banni
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1985· 1 entry
It expanded into the American Foundation for Resistance International
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1983· 2 entries
Together with Cuban dissident Armando Valladares, Bukovsky co-founded and was later elected president of Resistance International
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The Soviet representatives withdrew from the World Psychiatric Association rather than face expulsion
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1977· 1 entry
And set up a review committee to monitor misuse
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1976· 1 entry
For Luis Corvalan; and his ongoing campaign in the West against the Soviet regime
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1971· 1 entry
Bukovsky managed to smuggle to the West over 150 pages further documenting the political abuse of psychiatric institutions in the Soviet Union
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1970· 1 entry
In the CBS News special report "Voices from the Soviet Underground
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1942· 2 entries
Born 1942-12-30.
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“. Lewiston Evening Journal. p. 28. Rich, Vera (13 January 1977).”
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