Showing posts with label Lyudmila Alexeyeva. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lyudmila Alexeyeva. Show all posts

Friday, December 28, 2018

Lyudmila Alexeyeva's Final Speech

by Nomad


A few days before her death on 8 December, 91-year-old human rights campaigner Lyudmila Alexeyeva sent her along a message to the members of the Moscow Helsinki Group. The organization was originally established in 1976 to monitor Soviet compliance with the Helsinki Accords. After being shut down after the fall of the Soviet Union, it was revived in the 1990s and continues to operate in Russia today.

In her letter, she reflected on the human rights movement in Russia and offered a few words of advice to the younger generations.