Russian human rights activist and politician (1930–2021)
For other uses, see Sergei Kovalev (disambiguation).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Adamovich and the family name is Kovalev.
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Sergei Kovalev
Сергей Ковалёв
Kovalyov in 2015
Born
(1930-03-02)2 March 1930
Seredyna-Buda, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died
9 August 2021(2021-08-09) (aged 91)
Moscow, Russia
Nationality
Russian
Citizenship
Soviet Union (1930–1991)
Russian Federation (1991–2021)
Alma mater
Moscow State University (1954)
Occupation(s)
Biophysicist, politician
Known for
Human rights activism with participation in the Action Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR, Moscow Helsinki Group, Memorial and the Moscow branch of Amnesty International
Movement
Dissident movement in the Soviet Union
Children
Ivan; Maria, Varvara
Awards
Geuzenpenning, Légion d'honneur, Sakharov Prize, Victor Gollancz Prize, Olof Palme Prize, Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lithuanian Freedom Award
Kovalev's voice
from Kovalev's interview for Ekho Moskvy, 5 May 2014
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Sergei Adamovich Kovalyov (also spelled Sergey Kovalev; Russian: Сергей Адамович Ковалёв; 2 March 1930 – 9 August 2021) was a Russian human rights activist and politician. During the Soviet period he was a dissident and, after 1975, a political prisoner.
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deputy SergeiKovalev. The commission was rendered ineffective because of government refusal to respond to its inquiries. Two key members of the Kovalev Commission...
Chronicle was being run by biologist SergeiKovalev, mathematician Tatyana Velikanova and linguist Tatyana Khodorovich. Kovalev acted as chief editor, while Velikanova...
themselves. The film's participants are Vladimir Bukovsky, Elena Bonner, SergeiKovalev, Alexander Yessenin-Volpin, Anatoly Sharansky, Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov...
former Federal Security Service (FSB) colonel who was invited by MP SergeiKovalev to assist in an independent inquiry of the Russian apartment bombings...
was awarded, Sakharov was in Vilnius, where the human rights activist SergeiKovalev was being tried. In his Nobel lecture, "Peace, Progress, Human Rights"...
case of disappearance and presumed death of Alikhadzhiyev was used by SergeiKovalev in his defense of Akhmed Zakayev, Maskhadov's envoy on Europe, before...
outside a Vilnius court building demanding access to the 1976 trial of SergeiKovalev, an editor of the Chronicle of Current Events and prominent rights activist...
on his deathbed." Regular visitors to the Pasternaks' home also included Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Lev Shestov, Rainer Maria Rilke. Pasternak...
Soviet television. This put an end to the periodical's activities, until SergeiKovalev, Tatyana Khodorovich and Tatyana Velikanova openly announced their readiness...
many reports for “Memorial.” Beginning in 1994 Orlov, together with SergeiKovalev, the chair of the Committee of Human Rights under the President of Russia...
nor were they taken seriously by the Communist authorities.: 117 SergeiKovalev recalled "the famous article 125 of the Constitution which enumerated...
Solzhenitsyn. Elena Ivanoff transl. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Askol'dov, Sergei Alekseevich; Struve, Petr Berngardovich; et al. (1918). Из глубины: Сборник...
observers, including State Duma deputies Yuri Shchekochikhin, SergeiKovalev and Sergei Yushenkov, cast doubts on the official version and sought an independent...
on 6 March 1995. By the estimates of Yeltsin's human rights adviser SergeiKovalev, about 27,000 civilians died in the first five weeks of fighting. The...
as Kesha (1977) The Luncheon on the Grass (1979) as Ivan Nikolayevich Kovalev Lenin in Paris as messenger (1981) Three Times About Love as Vasiliy Fedorovich...
ISBN 978-5-0050-3223-2 Sergei Sokurov. An Ostracon for Every Novodvorskaya. Zavtra newspaper, 26 August 2013 (in Russian) Sergei Semanov (2006). Russia...
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