Soviet dissident Sergei Grigoryants was run over by a car

Soviet dissident Sergei Grigoryants told Mediazona that a car ran over him in the courtyard of his house.

“There was a rather strange feeling that he was lying in wait for me. He was driving along a narrow driveway behind my back, saw me perfectly, didn’t honk and ran over my leg,” Grigoryants said. He clarified that this happened on the afternoon of July 5.

The victim was taken away by ambulance; At the hospital they put a cast on my leg.

“It feels like a certain captain has appeared, to whom everything connected with me is entrusted, because strange stories happen every few months,” the dissident concluded.

Sergei Grigoryants is a Soviet dissident, literary critic and journalist, chairman of the Glasnost human rights foundation. In 1975, he was sentenced to five years in prison for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. In 1983 he was sentenced to seven years in a maximum security colony, and in 1987 he was given an amnesty.

While in custody, Grigoryants went on a hunger strike. about his experience of refusing to eat in prison . The dissident told Mediazona

In 1995, in Moscow, an unknown person in a car hit Grigoryants' son Timofey; The 20-year-old boy died. The driver was never found. Relatives suggested that the hit-and-run could have been intentional.