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The last to whom else the power was listened

December 8, 2018 Nikolai Svanidze

Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alekseeva died. At the 92nd year of life in the 15th clinical hospital in Moscow. A couple of days before the death, she seemed to be better, transferred from resuscitation to a regular ward. And some hope appeared. But so.

Fragile, small, she was a real fighter, a warrior, when it concerned her beliefs. And its main belief was that it is necessary to protect people, especially in a country like ours. And she protected them, using her mind, and female cunning, and charm, and enormous life experience. Soft with friends, she was a real unbending right -flank of the Russian human rights movement. And the last to whom the power was listened to.

PS Lyudmila Mikhailovna put her last signature in her life, assigned to free Lev Ponomareva.




Photo: 1. Russia. Moscow. April 8, 2013. The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseev at the Veche in memory of the auditor of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky in the Sakharov Center. Stanislav Krasilnikov/ TASS
2. Russia. Moscow. 31 Okyber 2009. Member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Valery Borschev (right) and chairman of the Moscow Helsinsky group Lyudmila Alekseev at an unauthorized opposition rally on Triumphal Square. Stanislav Krasilnikov/ TASS
3. Russia. Moscow. February 14, 2005. Director of OOD "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev, Chairman of the Moscow Helsinsky Group Lyudmila Alekseev (in the foreground) and residents of Blagoveshchensk, who suffered as a result of a special operation of riot police in December 2004, during a press conference. Natalia Kolesnikova / TASS