Overview
- Eva Merkacheva of the presidential human-rights council announced his death on Telegram after a prolonged illness.
- She said he spent the past year bedridden and chose to remain at home, where his room was set up like a hospice.
- He was a former Mossovet member and served in the State Duma’s first two convocations with the Yabloko faction.
- He later co-chaired the Moscow Helsinki Group and had been active in human-rights work since the late 1970s.
- He publicly criticized Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and continued trying to help people despite his declining health.