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page 1Russian human rights activists
Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist (1958–2006)
Manizha
Manizha Dalerovna Sangin (; ; ; born 8 July 1991), known mononymously as Manizha, is a Russian-Tajik singer and songwriter, as well as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Beginning her career in 2003 as a child singer, Manizha went on to perform with the music groups Ru.Kola, Assai, and Krip De Shin, before later pursuing a solo career. She represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Russian Woman".
Vladimir Bukovsky
Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
Natalya Estemirova
Russian human rights activist (1958-2009)
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Russian politician and journalist (born 1981)
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Soviet-Russian human rights activist (1927–2018)
Stanislav Markelov
Russian lawyer (1974-2009)
Svetlana Gannushkina
human rights activist
Elena Milashina
Russian journalist
Fazu Aliyeva
Russian poet (1932–2016)
Sergei Kovalev
Russian politician (1930–2021)
Galina Starovoytova
Russian academic and politician (1946-1998)
Oleg Orlov
Russian human rights activist (*1953)
Yury A. Dmitriev
Gulag researcher and human rights activist
Anna Yurievna Kuznetsova
politician
Lev Ponomaryov
Russian politician
Arseny Roginsky
Russian historian, Soviet dissident and Memorial founder (1946-2017)
Gleb Yakunin
Soviet dissident (1934-2014)
Svetlana Agapitova
Russian activist and journalist
Vladimir Osechkin
Russian human rights activist
Sergei Yushenkov
Russian politician (1950-2003)
Alexandr Podrabinek
Russian journalist
Anton Bakov
Russian politician
Oyub Titiev
Russian human rights activist
Nikolay Rybakov
Russian public figure, politician and ecologist
Dina Kaminskaya
Soviet lawyer and activist (1919–2006)
Zoya Svetova
Russian journalist and human rights defender
Marina Litvinovich
Russian opposition activist and politician
Karinna Moskalenko
Russian human rights lawyer
Pak Noja
Russian-born South Korean historian
Valentina Melnikova
Russian human rights activist
Gyulnara Sultanova
Russian human rights activist
Nina Katerli
Soviet and Russian writer, publicist, human rights activist
Konstantin Borovoi
Russian politician and human rights activist
Olga Romanova
Russian journalist
Malva Landa
geologist and human rights activist
Ella Polyakova
human rights activist
Yuri Schmidt
Russian lawyer and human rights activist
Alexander Brod
Russian human rights activist
Andrei Nikolaevich Mironov
Soviet political prisoner, human rights activist, reporter, fixer, interpreter (1954-2014)
Aleksandr Maysuryan
Soviet journalist
Vladimir Pribylovsky
Soviet and Russian academic and journalist
Nikolai Girenko
Russian ethnologist and activist (1940-2004)
Henri Reznik
Russian lawyer
Maria Kirbasova
Russian human rights activist
Pavel Chikov
Russian lawyer, human rights activist
Galina Kozhevnikova
Russian journalist and human rights activist (1974-2011)
Yuly Rybakov
human rights activist and Duma member
Andrei Babushkin
Russian sociologist and human rights activist
Natalia Taubina
Russian human rights activist
Daniil Konstantinov
Russian politician
Valentina Cherevatenko
Russian human rights activist
Sergey Mokhnatkin
Russian prisoner of conscience (1954-2020)
Olga Korobova
Russian politician
Darya Yegereva
Selkup human rights activist, climate activist, and political prisoner in Russia (born 1977)
Sapiyat Magomedova
Russian human rights lawyer (1979-)
Mikhail Fedotov
Russian diplomat and human rights activist
Svetlana Anokhina
Russian journalist and human rights advocate
Valery Borshchyov
Russian politician and human rights activist
Kronid Lyubarsky
Soviet dissident