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==Awards== ==Awards==

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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, and a member of the editorial board of The New Times. She is considered among the most liberal of Russia's politicians.

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

In an interview with Echo Moskvy on 28 August 2008, Novodvorskaya claimed that Shamil Basayev was a democrat, given his seeming support of Boris Yeltsin during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt and his participation in the government of Aslan Maskhadov in 1997, who appointed Basayev Deputy Premier of the Ichkerian government. Novodvorskaya also charged it was Russia that turned him into a terrorist Basayev had already hijacked an Aeroflot aircraft on on 9 November 1991—however, none of the hostages was harmed—and not long thereafter, as commander of Abkhaz rebels supported and supplied by Russia, his and other forces effected the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia. However, the key to his later brutality is seen as the reported killing in May, 1995, of eleven of Basayev's relatives, including his wife, brother, and two daughters by Russian forces.

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

  1. (also mentioned, Gleb Yakunin and Konstantin Borovoi) Arbatov, Alexei. Military Reform in Russia,International Security, Vol. 22, No. 4
  2. 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)
  3. Газета «Новый взгляд» N46 от 28 августа 1993г.. Democtratic Union website
  4. Комсомольская правда (9.2.2007)
  5. Валерия Новодворская на радио "Эхо Москвы" 29 августа 2008 г., radio interview, August 29, 2008, on "Moscow Echo" (Echo Moskvy)
  6. ^ The Death of Shamil Basayev, American Spectator, retrieved November 13, 2008
  7. Aslan Maskhadov: Five Steps into History, Prague Watchdog, retrieved November 13, 2008.
  8. Template:Ru icon Novodvorskaya, Valeriya. "Валерия Новодворская на радио "Эхо Москвы" 29 августа 2008 г." Democratic Union. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
  9. "Shamil Basayev". The Times. 11 July 2006. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
  10. 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.

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