The Moscow Helsinki group was headed by three co -chairs

The co -chairs of the Moscow Helsinki group were Valery Borschev, Vyacheslav Bakhmin and Dmitry Makarov. They were elected at a meeting on Monday, the organization’s website reports .

Earlier, the human rights organization was headed by Lyudmila Alekseev. She died in Moscow on December 8 at the 92nd year of her life.

Vyacheslav Bakhmin has been a member of the ICG since 1989 and the founder of the Sakharov Center. Valery Borschev is one of the authors of the law on public control in Russia, a former State Duma deputy of the first and second convocations, a member of the Yabloko faction. Dmitry Makarov became a member of the ICG in 2017 and is one of the initiators and a member of the Council of International Civil Initiative on the OSCE.

The decision to elect not one chairman, but three co -chairs of the Moscow Helsinsky group was made at the meeting of the organization.

Since the late 1960s, Lyudmila Alekseeva has been engaged in human rights activities, and has been a member of the Moscow Helsinki group since its creation in 1976. The next year, due to persecution by the Soviet authorities, she was forced to emigrate, lived in the United States. Returned to Russia in 1993. In May 1996, he was elected chairman of the Moscow Helsinki group. More than once made criticism of the Russian authorities and violations of their human rights.