Politics
Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian Champion of Human Rights, Dies at 91
- Founded the Moscow Helsinki Group to monitor Soviet compliance
- Started to campaign for fair trials of dissidents in 1960s
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Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who headed the oldest Russian human-rights organization and was a driving force behind the civil-rights movement in the Soviet Union, has died.
She died Saturday night at a Moscow hospital, according to a statement from the Human Rights Council under Russia’s President. She was 91.