The human rights activist and publicist Evgeny Niolov died

On June 5, a human rights activist and publicist, expert of the “For Human Rights” movement, Evgeny Nilov, died in Moscow. This was announced by the former director of the center named after A.D. Sakharov Yuri Samodurov.

Evgeny Nilov was born in 1959. He studied at the Moscow Hydromeliorative Institute. Since 1990 - a participant in the movement "Democratic Russia". Active opponent of the war in Chechnya. Until 2016, he led the information and analytical service of the Movement for Human Rights.

Evgeny Nilov is a repeated guest of the Radio Liberty programs , the author of many materials for the website of the Russian Service "Freedom".