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Veteran Russian Dissident Reportedly Left Suicide Note Blaming Putin
The veteran dissident and ocean researcher left a note blaming Russia’s war in Ukraine and domestic repression, relatives and law enforcement said.
- On Wednesday, human rights activist Nina Litvinova died by suicide in Moscow at age 80. State news agency RIA Novosti reported her death and confirmed she left a note.
- In a note shared by her cousin, journalist Maria Slonim, Litvinova wrote that life had become "unbearable" since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She expressed exhaustion from helplessness regarding those jailed for opposing the war.
- A lifelong dissident, Litvinova was the granddaughter of Soviet foreign minister Maxim Litvinov and sister to Pavel Litvinov, who protested the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Memorial noted she advocated for political prisoners since the 1960s.
- Recently, Litvinova attended high-profile trials for historian Yury Dmitriyev, Memorial co-founder Oleg Orlov, and theatre director Evgenia Berkovich. Cousin Slonim wrote she was "killed by Putin," characterizing her death as result of systemic repression.
- Although RIA Novosti reported her death, the agency omitted the contents of her suicide note from its coverage. Her passing underscores the toll on Russia's human rights advocates documenting state repression amid ongoing war and mass imprisonment.
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Nina Litvinova (1945-2026) | human rights activist: The 80-year-old Russian human rights activist Nina Litvinova left behind a letter shortly before her death…
·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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The dissident woman and daughter of the USSR's drug-related foreign affairs committed suicide in protest against the war in Ukraine.
Eighty-year-old Nina Litvinova supported political prisoners for decades. In a farewell letter, she writes that she is suffering from powerlessness.
·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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In Moscow, a dissident and a human rights defender, Nina Litvinov, a journalist named Masha Slonim, Nina Litvinova's cousin, killed herself and published a piece of her suicide note on her Facebook page on May 14.
·Riga, Latvia
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Leaning Left5Leaning Right1Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution63% Left
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