The publicist Evgeny Nilov died

In Moscow, a publicist, an expert of the movement "For Human Rights" Evgeny Nilov died. This was reported by his comrades in social networks. Iholov was 60 years old. He died on Wednesday evening at a computer from a heart attack.

Evgeny Nilov was an active participant in the perestroika democratic movement, and then - post -Soviet political and civil associations.

A brilliant connoisseur of history and political philosophy, he acted as an independent thinker and publicist - as a rule, in an acute -sexy manner. Nilov was published in "Faces" , on the Kasparov.ru website and in other publications.

Since 1990, Nilov has been an activist of the Union of Constitutional Democrats, then consisted of the Russian Christian Democratic Party. Since 1990, he was a member of the Democratic Russia movement.

In August 1991, Nilov defended the White House as part of the United Cadet detachment, anarchist and demoi. He was an active participant in the movement against the war in Chechnya.

“An amazingly rich life!” Writes about him the head of the Memorial human rights center Alexander Cherkasov. “Participation in the independent public movement of the early 80s - fortunately, without“ landing ”. In the perestroika life of the late 80s, in the first legal associations. And then three decades that cannot be represented without Zhenya, without his texts. And more often without his name - but became their own name - but became their own behalf of it - but became named after it. The basis for statements with many signatures.