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KOVALEV, Sergei
Russian human rights activist and politician and a former Soviet dissident and political prisoner
Born March 2, 1930 in Seredina-Buda, Ukraine
1932 – moved to Podlipki village (located near Moscow) with his family
1954 – graduated from Moscow State University
1959-1965 – performed basic research in the electrophysiology of cardiac and myocardial tissues
1967 – became involved in human rights circles and developed a close friendship with fellow dissindent Andrei Sakharov
1968 – one of the anonymous founders and editors of the samizdat, a typewritten self-published journal A Chronicle of Current Events
1969 – worked a senior fellow in biology at his alma mater, Moscow University
1969 – founded the first Soviet human rights association (Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR)
1970-1974 – worked in a research station
1973 – resumed publication of The Chronicle of Current Events
1974 – arrested on Dec.8; charged with anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda (sentenced to seven years in prison and three more in exile)
1974 – his scientific career ended
1984-1987 – forced to live in the town of Kalinin
1987 – allowed to return to Moscow and resume his activities on behalf of human rights
1990-1993 – elected People’s Deputy of the Russian Federation and a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation
1991 – coauthored the Declaration of Human and Civil Rights
1993 – co-founded the political party named as the Democratic Choice of Russia
1993-2003 – a member of the Russian State Duma
1996 – resigned as head of Yeltsin’s presidential human rights commission
1996-2003 – member of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and member of the Assembly’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
2002 – organized a public commission to investigate the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings
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