Yuri Afanasyev died

In Moscow, the historian and politician Yuri Afanasyev died, the Echo of Moscow reports. According to close politicians, he died at home in a dream after a three -day examination in the hospital. Afanasyev was a diabetic.

Yuri Afanasyev was one of the creators of the Democratic Russia movement, was a member of the Interregional Deputy Group. It is called one of the "surgery of perestroika."

Afanasyev worked as a senior researcher, the head of the history of the culture of foreign countries of the Universal History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, as well as the editor of the department of history, a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Communist".

In 1993, Afanasyev resigned himself the powers of the People’s Deputy of Russia and announced the departure from politics.

Yuri Afanasyev is also known as the founder of the Russian State Humanitarian University.