Valery Novodvorskaya died

In Moscow, at the 65th year of life, a journalist, politician and public figure Valery Novodvorskaya died. “On Saturday, Valery Ilyinichna was hospitalized in one of the capital's clinics, but it was not possible to save her, she died,” the doctors told Interfax. Lenta.ru clarifies that Novodvorskaya entered in serious condition in the intensive care unit of the purulent surgery of GKB No. 13. She died of infectious-toxic shock. The information was confirmed by the "Echo of Moscow" by Vice-mayor on social development Leonid Pechatnikov. "She suffered for a long time a number of chronic diseases and died of one of their complications," he said.

The funeral of Valeria Novodvorskaya will be held on July 16. At 10 o’clock the civil ceremony will be held in the Sakharov Center, the funeral service for the Orthodox rite will also take place there.

The editors of the "faces" mourn with the relatives and friends of Valeria Ilyinichna. For many years, Valeria Novodvorskaya was one of the leading authors of our publication. We loved and honored her, just like our readers.

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Valeria Novodvorskaya was born on May 17, 1950 in a family of Muscovites - a doctor and an engineer, until 9 years old lived with her grandmother in Belarus. After graduating from school in Moscow, Novodvorskaya entered the French branch of the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​named after Maurice Torez, where she organized an underground student group. On December 5, 1969, in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, a student Valery Novodvorskaya scattered leaflets with an anti -Soviet poem of her own essay "Thank you, party, you!". She was immediately arrested on charges of anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda (Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR) and placed in a single camera of the Lefortovo prison. From the summer of 1970 to February 1972, Novodvorskaya was on compulsory treatment in a special psychiatric hospital in Kazan.

Immediately after the release in 1972, Novodvorskaya began to spread samizdat. In the late 1970s, she tried to create an underground political party to combat the CPSU. In 1978, she became one of the founders of the "free inter -professional unification of the workers" (STO). Until the early 1990s, Valery Novodvorskaya was subjected to systematic persecution - forced hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital, interrogations and searches. Novodvorskaya was tried three times for dissident activities. From 1987 to May 1991, she organized anti -Soviet rallies and demonstrations in Moscow, was delayed 17 times by the police and was subjected to administrative arrests.

In 1988, Novodvorskaya became the co -founder of the Democratic Union party.

In the fall of 1993, she supported the decree on the dissolution of the Supreme Council, arranged rallies in support of President Boris Yeltsin. Participated in the Constituent Congress of the Bloc "Choice of Russia". In December 1995, in the elections to the State Duma of the 2nd convocation, Novodvorskaya entered the election list of the Party of Economic Freedom. Then Novodvorskaya ran in the Moscow single -mandate district No. 192, but lost.

Novodvorskaya consistently opposed the imperial policy of Russia, the revanch of special services, and the folding of democratic rights and freedoms. Actively supported the Ukrainian revolution and the fight against Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine. Novodvorskaya also performed with a sharp criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church. She herself was baptized in 1990, belonged to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

In addition to the "faces" she was regularly published in The New Times magazine, performed at Echo of Moscow, and a video blog fired with Konstantin Borov.

Valeria Novodvorskaya is the author of the books “Above the abyss in lies”, “My Carthage must be destroyed”, “On the other side of despair”, “Farewell of the Slav”, “Poets and Kings”.