Belebei (USSR), 30 December 1942 — Cambridge (UK), 27 October 2019. Vladimir BUKOVSKY died of cardiac arrest in Addenbrookes Hospital, in Cambridge, England at 9:30 pm (Greenwich Mean Time) on Sunday, 27 October 2019. He was 76. His health had been poor in recent years. After his expulsion from the USSR in December 1976, he … Continue reading 02. Vladimir Bukovsky, 1942-2019
Category: Protests
Self-immolation: A protest of despair (1968-2019)
<<Other texts and documents>> On 10 SEPTEMBER 2019, 79-year-old activist Albert Razin set fire to himself in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurt Republic (Volga Federal District) in protest against the policy of the national government [1] concerning languages and linguistic minorities within Russia. No fire extinguisher was near to hand and he died later in … Continue reading Self-immolation: A protest of despair (1968-2019)
A Chronicle of Current Events 