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Valeria Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya (Russian: Валерия Ильинична Новодворская) (born May 17, 1950, Baranavichy, Belarus) is a Russian politician, dissident, the founder and the chairwoman of the "Democratic Union" party.

Novodvorskaya has been active in the Soviet dissidents movement since her youth, and first imprisoned by the Soviet authorities in 1969 for distributing leaflets that criticized the Soviet invasion in Czechoslovakia (Prague Spring). She was imprisoned for her political activities in a Soviet psychiatric hospital. She described her experiences there in her book Beyond Despair.

Novodvorskaya is openly critical of Russian government policies. , including Chechen Wars, domestic policies of Vladimir Putin, and the rebirth of Soviet propaganda in Russia

Awards

She received the Starovoytova award "for contribution to the defense of human rights and strengthening democracy in Russia". She said at the ceremony that "we are not in opposition to, but in confrontation with, the present regime"

Notes

1. Valeria Novodvorskaya's Blog
2. Газета «Новый взгляд» N46 от 28 августа 1993г.. Democtratic Union website
3. Cite error: The named reference NM_46 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
4. Комсомольская правда (9.2.2007)
6. Anna Politkovskaya (2007) A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia, Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6682-7, page 38.

Her books

• Valeriya Novodvorskaya. Beyond despair. .Moscow, Novosti. 1993 Валерия Новодворская. По ту сторону отчаяния. Template:Ru icon

See also

• Larisa Arap

External links

• The Democratic Union
• Opinions on grani.ru (Russian)

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