Lev Alexandrovich Ponomarev

Lev Ponomarev in 2011.

Lev Alexandrowitsch Ponomarjow ( Russian Лев Александрович Пономарёв ; born September 2, 1941 in Tomsk ) is a Russian politician and human rights activist. He is chairman of the all-Russian movement "Sa prawa tscheloweka" ("For Human Rights") and was a member of the National Assembly of the Russian Federation from 1990 to 1993. In 1991/1992 he was chairman of a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the August coup in Moscow . He is a member of the Political Council of the United Democratic Movement “ Solidarnost ”. He became a member of the Duma in 1994 after the Russian constitutional crisis (until 1996).

biography

He studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) from 1965 and graduated in 1968. He is a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences. He worked at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (ITEP) and gave part-time classes at MIPT in the Department of General Physics.

In 1993 he ran unsuccessfully on the list of the Association of Russia for the Duma. He eventually won a mandate as the successor to the late MP Basil Seljunin. From 1994 to 1996 he was a member of the Duma and u. a. Member of the Committee on CIS Affairs. In 1997 Lev Ponomarev initiated the creation of the all-Russian movement "For Human Rights" and served as its executive director.

He has been a member of the “Other Russia” association since it was founded in July 2006 and is a member of its executive committee. He defended the former owner of Yukos , Mikhail Khodorkovsky , and other Yukos members. In 2007 he asked President Putin to release Khodorkovsky. In 2009, together with other activists of “Solidarność” - Roman Dobrochotow , Oleg Koslowski, Alexander Ryklin, Sergei Davidis, Michael Schneider, Vladimir Milow , Garri Kasparow and Boris Nemtsov - he picketed the Meshchansky court and held a banner “ Freedom for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedew ”.

Late in the evening on March 31, 2009, he was beaten near his home. At a meeting of the presidents of Russia and the United States on April 1, 2009, Barack Obama mentioned, among other things, the attack on Ponomarev. He was arrested in late January 2010 after a demonstration in Moscow.

On 10 March 2010 he signed a manifesto of the Russian opposition, entitled " Putin Must Go ." On August 25, 2010, he was three days in prison for contempt of the national flag of the Russian Federation on the Arbat on 22 August. On September 7th of that year, he was sentenced to four days in prison for disobeying the police.

In 2010 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by decree of President Lech Kaczyński “for outstanding achievements in the field of protection of human rights and the promotion of civil liberties”.

Ponomarev's office was vacated by OMON in June 2013 . The commissioner for human rights issues Vladimir Lukin spoke of a breach of the Russian constitution. After “For Human Rights” received money mainly from US foundations, it was financed by the Russian state from 2014, which stopped its contributions in 2019.

In 2019, three human rights organizations in which Ponomarjow was active were again registered as “foreign agents”.

Lev Ponomarev is married to Vera Schabelnikowa. Lev Ponomarev's daughters from his first marriage Elena Liptser and Ksenia Kostromina are well-known lawyers.

Web links

• Lev Ponomarev At 70 (English)
• Biography at Lentapedija (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian civil rights activist Ponomarjow brutally mistreated (accessed September 25, 2012)
2. ↑ 100 Kremlin opponents arrested (accessed September 25, 2012)
3. ↑ Brutal raid on human rights activists. tagesschau.de , June 22, 2013, archived from the original on June 26, 2013 ; Retrieved June 23, 2013 . 
4. ^ Repression and Integration , WOZ, November 13, 2014
5. ^ "Foreign agent" three times , Novaya Gazeta, February 14, 2019