Valeriya Novodvorskaya
Walerija Ilyinichna Nowodworskaja (Russian Валерия Ильинична Новодворская; born May 17, 1950 in Baranovitchi, Byelorussian SSR) is a Russian opposition politician, journalist and human rights activist, mainly for their radical- liberal and pro- American views and extremely sharp criticism of the Putin government is known.
Biography
Nowodworskaja studied from 1968 French at the Linguistic University in Moscow. In 1969 she founded an illegal anti-Soviet liberal university group, whose members were suspected by the authorities to prepare an armed insurrection against the Soviet regime, partly because they criticized the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia open. Because of Nowodworskaja was arrested in the same year on disposal of the intelligence service KGB and was admitted from June 1970 to February 1972 in the closed psychiatric ward.
1973 to 1975 she worked as a teacher in a children's sanatorium from 1975 to 1990 as a translator of English and French at a medical school in Moscow. In 1977 she graduated from night school at the Pedagogical Institute " Nadezhda Krupskaya " the Moscow Oblast. In the 1970s Nowodworskaja repeatedly tried to evict anti-Soviet propaganda writings in self- publishing ( samizdat ) and to establish a political struggle movement against the Communists. In 1978 she was co-founder of the dissident organization Free on Professional Association of Workers (Russian Свободное межпрофессиональное объединение трудящихся ) and in 1978, 1985 and 1986 provided in connection with this activity before the court.
In May 1988, Nowodworskaja was a co-founder of the first Soviet opposition political party which called itself Democratic Union ( Демократический Союз ). In the late 1980s and early 1990s ( " Free Word " Свободное слово ,) with Nowodworskaja gave the party an illegal newspaper called Swobodnoje slowo as a frequent author out. They also organized frequently unapproved anti-Soviet demonstrations in Moscow, where Nowodworskaja was among the main activists and a total of 17 times was arrested by police and placed briefly under arrest. In May 1991, a criminal case was initiated because of the call for violent change of power against them. Nowodworskaja was imprisoned, but came on 23 August 1991, after the failure of the August coup in Moscow again.
The end of 1992 Nowodworskaja occurred ( Демократический союз России ) as co-founder of the Liberal Party Democratic Union of Russia. During the constitutional crisis in 1993 Nowodworskaja supported the dissolution of Parliament and the violent suppression of the opposition resistance by President Boris Yeltsin.
The end of 1993 Nowodworskaja intended to run for deputy in the Duma elections, but missed the required number of signatures for this purpose. It applies since along with their party Democratic Union as politically insignificant, operated, however, until today as journalist and author of political books. She also writes for the magazine The New Times.
Politics
Nowodworskaja belongs among the liberal politicians of Russia to the radical and uncompromising. Is known not only their criticism of state power under Putin and Medvedev, but also the propagated by her unconditional submission to the U.S. and a strict rejection of Russia as a great power. In addition Nowodworskaja -actuated several times volksverhetzerische statements with respect to the Russian people.
Her most famous failures in this regard include the following: