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Valeria Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya (Russian: Валерия Ильинична Новодворская) (born May 17, 1950, Baranavichy, Belarus) is a Russian politician, dissident, the founder and the chairwoman of the "Democratic Union" party.
Political activism
Soviet Union
Novodvorskaya has been active in the Soviet dissidents movement since her youth, and first imprisoned by the Soviet authorities on 1969 for distributing leaflets that criticized the Soviet invasion in Czechoslovakia (Prague Spring). The leaflets included her poetry: "Thank you, the Communist Party for our bitterness and despair, for our shameful silence, thank you the Party!". Novodvorskaya was only 19 at this time. She was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in a Soviet psychiatric hospital. She described her experiences there in her book Beyond Despair.
Post-Soviet Russia
Novodvorskaya is openly critical of Russian government policies. , including Chechen Wars, domestic policies of Vladimir Putin, and the rebirth of Soviet propaganda in Russia Novodvorskaya also stated her belief that the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to Japan's good, she supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, supported apartheid,, has stated that Russia would be better off as a state of the United States, and claims that Shamil Basayev was a democrat.
Awards
She received the Starovoytova award "for contribution to the defense of human rights and strengthening democracy in Russia". She said at the ceremony that "we are not in opposition to, but in confrontation with, the present regime"
Notes
- Barron, John (1975). KGB - The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents. London: Corgi Books. ISBN 0-552-09890-6. p. 55 in Russian edition (ISBN 0-911971-29-7)
- Valeria Novodvorskaya's Blog
- Газета «Новый взгляд» N46 от 28 августа 1993г.. Democtratic Union website
- Комсомольская правда (9.2.2007)
- ^ Газета «Новый взгляд» N46 от 28 августа 1993 г. Статья: «Не отдадим наше право налево!»
- Газета «Новый взгляд» N46 от 28 августа 1993г.. Democtratic Union website
- Комсомольская правда (9.2.2007)
- Anna Politkovskaya (2007) A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia, Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6682-7, page 38.
Her books
- Valeriya Novodvorskaya. Beyond despair. .Moscow, Novosti. 1993 Валерия Новодворская. По ту сторону отчаяния. Template:Ru icon
See also
External links
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