Boris Pavlovich Pustynzew
Boris Pawlowitsch Pustynzew ( Russian Борис Павлович Пустынцев ; born June 2, 1935 in Vladivostok ; † March 4, 2014 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian dissident and chairman of the St. Petersburg NGO " Citizens' Control " and a member of the "Council for the Development of Civil Society and of Human Rights ”under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation.
Life
At the end of 1956 Pustynzew was studying English philology when Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian people's will for freedom. In protest in Leningrad, a group of Russian students published and distributed leaflets in support of the Hungarian popular uprising, demanding that the citizens demand the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary and other Eastern European countries, which happened 35 years later. In 1957 the KGB arrested nine demonstrators. Pustynzew spent five years in prison and concentration camp. In the 1970s Pustyntsev began working in the cinema industry as a dubbing director and author of Russian texts for foreign films. In 1982 the KGB banned him from working. The Estonian studio Tallinnfilm disregarded the ban and invited Pustynzew. With the beginning of perestroika, he returned to the Leningrad Film Studio (Leningradskaja Kinostudija) in 1989.
Since the beginning of perestroika , Pustyntsev took an active part in the protest against the increasing presence of former KGB officers in the organs of the administration of the new, allegedly democratic government in St. Petersburg. In 1992, after another protest, he was physically assaulted by an unknown group of people in front of his house in such a way that his eyesight was severely impaired. He was forced to quit his job in the cinema industry.
From 1990 to 1994 Pustynzew was one of the founding members and co-chair of the local society " Memorial ", an organization that represented the interests of former victims of political repression .
For the past 20 years, Boris Pustynzew has been an expert in many Russian and international projects aimed at protecting the fundamental rights and political freedoms of the citizens of Russia, and the author of numerous articles on human rights in Russian and foreign magazines.
Pustynzew has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ В Петербурге скончался правозащитник Борис Пустынцев . Фонтанка.ру. March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pustynzew, Boris Pavlovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Пустынцев, Борис Павлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian dissident |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vladivostok |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th March 2014 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |