Natalya Gorbanevskaya

Natalya Evgenevna Gorbanevskaya (Russian Наталья Евгеньевна Горбаневская; born May 26, 1936 in Moscow, † November 29, 2013 in Paris) was a Russian poet, translator, human rights activist and member of the Russian dissident movement. She graduated from the Leningrad University in the field of " technical writer and translator". After that she worked in Moscow as a librarian and translator and founded the secret samizdat journal Chronicle of Current Events (Russian Хроника текущих событий ).

On August 25, 1968, she took on the Red Square on Lobnoje mjesto at the protest rally against the suppression of the Prague Spring in part. On 24 December 1969 she was arrested and admitted with a diagnosis of " sluggish schizophrenia growing " in the Serbski Science Centre for Social and court psychiatry. To 22 February 1972, she was treated there by force. Even before their forcible treatment described Gorbanevskaya the abuse of psychiatry in pursuit of the dissidents in the article Free medical help (Russian Бесплатная медицинская помощь ), which was published in 1971 in samizdat. Joan Baez dedicated her 1973 song Natalia with the text of Shusha Guppy.

On 17 December 1975 Gorbanevskaya came to Paris. She was employed in the editorial department of the Russian- language journal continent and the newspaper Russkaya Mys'l. Since 1999 she was a member of the Quorum of the Warsaw journal New Poland (Russian Новая Польша ). In 2005 she was awarded the Polish civil rights.

On 28 October 2008 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Maria Curie -Skłodowska University in Lublin.