Valery Ilyinichna Novodworskaya

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Valery Novodvorskaya, 2009

Valeriya Novodvorskaya ( Russian Валерия Ильинична Новодворская * 17th May 1950 in Baranovichi , Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic ; † 12. July 2014 in Moscow ) was a Russian opposition politician , journalist and human rights activist , made especially for their radical-liberal and extremely sharp Criticism of the Putin government became known.

Life

Nowodworskaja studied from 1968 French at the Linguistic University in Moscow . In 1969 she founded an illegal liberal university group whose members were suspected by the state authorities of preparing an armed uprising against the Soviet regime , among other things because they openly criticized the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia . As a result, Novodworskaya was arrested in the same year by order of the KGB intelligence service and was admitted to closed psychiatry from June 1970 to February 1972.

From 1973 to 1975 she worked as a pedagogue in a children's sanatorium and from 1975 to 1990 as a translator for English and French at a medical college in Moscow. In 1977 she joined evening courses at the Pedagogical Institute " Nadezhda Krupskaya " the Moscow Oblast from. In the 1970s, Novodworskaya tried several times to self-publish opposition propaganda ( samizdat ) and to establish a political struggle against the communists. In 1978 she co-founded the dissident organization Free Professional Association of Working People (Russian Свободное межпрофессиональное объединение трудящихся ) and was brought to court in 1978, 1985 and 1986 in connection with this activity.

In May 1988 Novodworskaya was a co-founder of the first opposition political party of the Soviet Union, the Democratic Union ( Демократический Союз ) called. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, this party published an illegal newspaper called Svobodnoje slowo ( Свободное слово , "Free Word") with Novodworskaya as a frequent author. In addition, she often organized unauthorized demonstrations in Moscow, in which Novodworskaya was one of the main activists and was arrested and briefly detained 17 times by the police . In May 1991 a criminal case was initiated against her for inciting a violent change of power. Novodworskaya was imprisoned, but was released on August 23, 1991, after the failed August coup in Moscow .

At the end of 1992 Novodworskaya co-founded the liberal party Democratic Union of Russia ( Демократический союз России ). During the constitutional crisis of 1993 , Novodworskaya supported the dissolution of parliament and the violent suppression of opposition resistance by President Boris Yeltsin .

At the end of 1993 Novodworskaya intended to run as a member of the Duma elections, but failed to get the necessary number of signatures. As a political force, she and her Democratic Union party have since been insignificant, but as a publicist and author of political books, Novodworskaya became a prominent voice in the opposition to Putin. She also wrote for The New Times magazine .

Novodworskaya ran again in the parliamentary elections in Russia in 1995 (second convocation). However, she did not manage to garner enough votes. Instead, she worked between 1995 and 1999 as an assistant to the opposition Duma member Konstantin Borowoi .

In February 2008 Novodworskaya was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas for the defense of the interests of the Republic of Lithuania .

Novodworskaya has become a prominent defender of LGBT rights in Russia. She criticized the Orthodox Church for their uncompromising, violence-glorifying attitude and was involved, among other things, in the film festival "Side by Side" and against the legal ban on "homosexual propaganda".

Web links

Commons : Valeriya Novodvorskaya  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Додолев Е. Ю .: Девица Но vo дворская. Последняя весталка революции . Рипол-классик, Москва 2017, ISBN 978-5-386-09716-5 , pp. 352 .
  2. ↑ Дмитрий Коробейников: Потомственная революционерка Валерия Новодворская. In: Ria Novosti. May 17, 2010, Retrieved December 1, 2019 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Russia: Mourning for a human rights activist, http://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=21932
personal data
SURNAME Novodworskaya, Valery Ilyinichna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Novodvorskaja, Valerija; Novodworskaya, Valeria; Новодворская, Валерия Ильинична (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician, human rights activist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Baranavichy
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2014
Place of death Moscow