Lyudmila Alexeyeva

Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Людмила Алексеева
Alexeyeva in 2005
Born
Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva

(1927-07-20)20 July 1927
Died8 December 2018(2018-12-08) (aged 91)
NationalityRussian
CitizenshipSoviet Union (1927–1977)
United States (1982–2018)
Russia (1991–2018)
Alma materthe MSU Faculty of History, the graduate school of the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics
Occupation(s)Russian historian, activist, chairwomen of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group
Known forHuman rights activism with participation in the Moscow Helsinki Group
MovementMoscow Helsinki Group, Strategy-31, other rights-related movements
SpouseNikolay Williams
AwardsState Prize of the Russian Federation, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Olof Palme Prize, Légion d'honneur, Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, Sakharov Prize

Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva (Russian: Людми́ла Миха́йловна Алексе́ева, IPA: [lʲʊˈdmʲilə ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvə]; 20 July 1927 – 8 December 2018)[1] was a Russian historian and human-rights activist who was a founding member in 1976 of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group[2] and one of the last Soviet dissidents active in post-Soviet Russia.[3]

  1. ^ "В Москве умерла правозащитница Людмила Алексеева". BBC Russian Service. 8 December 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  2. ^ New politics. New Politics Associates. 1989. p. 133.
  3. ^ Maria Danilova (15 June 2004). "Lyudmila Alexeyeva Speaks Her Mind". The St. Petersburg Times. No. #977 (45). Associated Press. Archived from the original on 10 June 2007. Retrieved 9 December 2018.