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Lefortovo Prison

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Lefortovo Prison (p) is a prison in Moscow, Russia, which, since 2005, has been under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. [1]

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Aleksey Kochetkov

Aleksey Vladimirovich Kochetkov (Алексей Владимирович Кочетков; born 8 September 1971).

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Alexander Dolgun

Alexander Dolgun (29 September 1926 – 28 August 1986) was a survivor of the Soviet Gulag who wrote about his experiences in 1975 after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union and return to his native United States.

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Alexander Krasnoshchyokov

Alexander Mikhailovich Krasnoshchyokov (Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Краснощёков, real name – Avraam Moiseevich Krasnoshchyok, Абра́м Моисе́евич Краснощёк, October 10, 1880 - November 26, 1937) was a Soviet politician and the first Chairman of the Government (Head of the state) of the Far Eastern Republic, and later the first leading Bolshevik to be arrested by the regime.

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Alexander Rutskoy

Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy (p; born 16 September 1947) is a Russian politician and a former Soviet military officer.

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Alpha Group

Spetsgruppa "A", also known as Alpha Group (a popular English name), or Alfa, whose official name is Directorate "A" of the FSB Special Purpose Center (TsSN FSB), is an elite, stand-alone sub-unit of Russia's special forces.

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Andrei Soldatov

Andrei Alekseyevich Soldatov (Андрей Алексеевич Солдатов, born 4 October 1975 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian investigative journalist and Russian security services expert.

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Andrei Tverdokhlebov

Andrei Nikolayevich Tverdokhlebov (Андре́й Никола́евич Твердохле́бов, 30 September 1940, Moscow – 3 December 2011, Pennsylvania, United States) was a Soviet physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

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Baggage (The Americans)

"Baggage" is the second episode of third season of the American television drama series The Americans, and the 28th overall episode of the series.

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Bernt Ivar Eidsvig

Bernt Ivar Eidsvig (former order name Markus Bernt Eidsvig) (born September 12, 1953 at Rjukan) is the Catholic Bishop of Oslo and functioning apostolic administrator of Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim.

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Chingiz Ildyrym

Chingiz Ildyrym oglu Sultanov (Çingiz İldırım oğlu Sultanov) (1890–1937) better known as Chingiz Ildyrym, was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary, innovator and the first People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of Azerbaijan after the Sovietization of Azerbaijan.

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Defense Intelligence Agency

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an external intelligence service of the United States federal government specializing in defense and military intelligence.

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Edmond Pope

Edmond D. Pope (Эдмонд Поуп; born 1944) is a retired American intelligence officer-turned-"businessman", convicted by a Russian court in 2000 on charges of spying for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

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Ekaterina Kalinina

Ekaterina Ivanovna Kalinina (Екатерина Ивановна Калинина; Lorberg; 2 July 1882 in Paide – 22 December 1960 in Moscow) was the wife of Soviet politician Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946).

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Elena Rzhevskaya

Elena Moiseevna Rzhevskaya (Russian: Еле́на Моисе́евна Рже́вская, born Elena Kagan; 27 October 1919 – 25 April 2017) was a writer and former Soviet war interpreter.

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Eston Kohver

Eston Kohver (born 1971) is an Estonian officer of the Estonian Internal Security Service who was detained by the Russian FSB on under disputed circumstances, creating a major political rift in Estonia–Russia relations.

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Etibar Mammadov

Etibar Mammadov Salidar oglu (Etibar Məmmədov Səlidar oğlu) (born April 2, 1955 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani politician and founder and leader of Azerbaijan National Independence Party (Azərbaycan Milli İstiqlal Partiyası), an opposition party in Azerbaijan.

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Genrich Eiche

Henrich Christoforovich Eiche (Latvian. Indriķis Eiche; September 29 (October 12) 1893, Riga — June 25, 1968, Jūrmala) — served in World War I as an officer in the Russian Imperial Army, and in 1917 was elected Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee of his regiment.

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Georgi Vins

Georgi Petrovich Vins (Георгий Петрович Винс; August 4, 1928 Blagoveshchensk, Russian SFSR – January 11, 1998 Elkhart, Indiana) was a Russian Baptist pastor persecuted by the Soviet authorities for his involvement in a network of independent Baptist churches.

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Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (– 18 June 1974) was a Soviet Red Army General who became Chief of General Staff, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Minister of Defence and a member of the Politburo.

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Gleb Yakunin

Gleb Pavlovich Yakunin (Глеб Па́влович Яку́нин; 4 March 1936 – 25 December 2014) was a Russian priest and dissident, who fought for the principle of freedom of conscience in the Soviet Union.

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Great Purge

The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Большо́й терро́р) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.

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Grigory Gukovsky

Grigory Alexandrovich Gukovsky (p; 1 May 1902, Saint Petersburg – 2 April 1950, Moscow) was a Russian Formalist literary historian and scholar whose work at the Pushkin House led to the rediscovery of 18th-century Russian literature.

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Hugo Eberlein

Hugo Eberlein (May 4, 1887 – October 16, 1941) was a German Communist politician.

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Ilya Gabay

Ilya Yankelevich Gabay (a; 9 October 1935, Baku – 20 October 1973, Moscow; buried in Baku) was a key figure in the civil rights movement in the Soviet Union.

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Imprisonment of Evgeny Afanasyev and Svyatoslav Bobyshev

Evgeny Vasilyevich Afanasyev (1952-2014) and Svyatoslav Bobyshev (b.1953) were professors at Ustinov Baltic State Technical University.

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Jamshid Nakhchivanski

Jamshid Jafargulu oglu Nakhchivanski (Cəmşid Cəfərqulu oğlu Naxçıvanski; August 23, 1895 – August 26, 1938), also known as Jamshid Khan Nakhichevanski, was a Russian Imperial, Azerbaijani and Soviet military commander.

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Karlo Štajner

Karlo Štajner (15 January 1902 – 1 March 1992) was an Austrian-Yugoslav communist activist and a prominent Gulag survivor.

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Khalil Rza Uluturk

Khalil Rza Uluturk (Xəlil Rza Ulutürk), (21 October 1932, Salyan – 22 June 1994, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet.

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Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theories

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theories concerns the various theories put forward regarding the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.

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Lefortovo

Lefortovo may refer to.

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Lefortovo District

Lefortovo District (p) is a district of South-Eastern Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia.

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Leonid Khabarov

Leonid Khabarov (p; born May 8, 1947) is a former Soviet military officer whose battalion was the first Soviet Army unit to cross the border into the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan on December 25, 1979, serving as the de facto beginning of the decade-long Soviet war in Afghanistan.

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Leonid Razvozzhayev

Leonid Razvozzhayev (Леонид Михайлович Развозжаев) is a member of the political coalition Left Front and an aide to Ilya Ponomarev, a member of the Russian Parliament.

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Levon Mirzoyan

Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan (Լևոն Եսայիի Միրզոյան; Левон Исаевич Мирзоян) (November 14, 1897 – February 26, 1939) was the Secretary of the Communist Party of the Azeri SSR from January 21, 1926 to August 5, 1929 and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR from December 5, 1936 to May 3, 1938.

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Lionel Crabb

Lionel Kenneth Phillip Crabb, (28 January 1909 – presumed dead 19 April 1956), known as Buster Crabb, was a Royal Navy frogman and MI6 diver who vanished during a reconnaissance mission around a Soviet cruiser berthed at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1956.

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List of prison deaths

This is a list of notable people who have died in prison, whether actually in prison or in hospital while still serving a prison sentence.

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List of prisons

This page provides a list of prisons by country.

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Martemyan Ryutin

Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin (Мартемья́н Ники́тич Рю́тин) (1890–1937) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, and a political functionary of the Russian Communist Party.

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Mathias Rust

Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his illegal landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987.

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Mikhail Barsukov

Mikhail Ivanovich Barsukov (Russian: Михаил Иванович Барсуков; born on 8 November 1947) is a former Russian intelligence and government official.

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Mikhail Borodin

Mikhail Markovich Borodin (Михаи́л Ма́ркович Бороди́н; July 9, 1884 – May 29, 1951) was the alias of Mikhail Gruzenberg, a prominent Comintern agent, associate of Lenin and Chinese Government advisor to its leader Mao Zedong.

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Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky (נתן שרנסקי, Ната́н Щара́нский, Натан Щаранський; born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky (Анато́лий Бори́сович Щара́нский, Анатолій Борисович Щаранський) on 20 January 1948) is an Israeli politician, human rights activist and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons.

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National Bolshevik Party

The National Bolshevik Party (NBP, Национал-большевистская партия, НБП, also known as the Nazbols, Нацболы) operated from 1993 to 2007 as a Russian political party with a political program of National Bolshevism.

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National Salvation Front (Russia)

The National Salvation Front (Фронт Национального Спасения, Front Natsional'nogo Spaseniya, ФНС, FNS) was a broad coalition of communist, socialist and ultra-nationalist movements against reforms in Russia.

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Nikolai Glushkov

Nikolay Alekseevich Glushkov (Николай Алексеевич Глушков; 24 December 1949 – 12 March 2018) was a Russian businessman who was the deputy director of Aeroflot and a finance manager for AvtoVAZ.

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Novichok agent

Novichok (Новичо́к, "newcomer"/ "newbie") is a series of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union and Russia between 1971 and 1993.

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Oleg Kalugin

Oleg Danilovich Kalugin (Оле́г Дани́лович Калу́гин; born September 6, 1934) is a former KGB general (stripped of his rank and awards by a Russian Court decision in 2002).

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Oleg Sentsov

Oleg Gennadyevich Sentsov (Олег Геннадійович Сенцов, Oleh Hennadiovych Sentsov) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and writer, native of Crimea, best known for his 2011 film Gamer.

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Olexandr Kolchenko

Olexandr Olexandrovych Kolchenko (Олександр Олександрович Кольченко, Александр Александрович Кольченко, nicknamed "Tundra", born November 26, 1989) is a Ukrainian left-wing and trade union activist, antifascist, anarchist, ecologist, archaeologist, who has been convicted of terrorism by the Russian occupation administration of Crimea in 2014.

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Pavel Vrublevsky

Pavel Olegovich Vrublevsky (Павел Олегович Врублевский; born 26 December 1978) is a Russian, owner and general manager of the processing company ChronoPay.

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Prisons in Russia

Prisons in Russia can be categorized under four types of facilities.

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Rahim Gaziyev

Rahim Hasan oglu Gaziyev (Rəhim Qazıyev Həsən oğlu; born 1943, in Shaki) was Azerbaijani Defense Minister in 1992–1993, in the turmoil of the Nagorno-Karabakh War, and later a political prisoner.

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Rashid Khan Gaplanov

Rashid Khan Zavid oglu Gaplanov (Rəşid xan Qaplanov Zavid oğlu, Рашид хан Завитович Капланов; 1883–1937), also known as Rashid Khan Kaplanov, was an Azerbaijani statesman of Kumyk ethnicity who served as the Minister of Finance and Minister of Education and Religious Affairs in the fifth and fourth cabinets of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

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Red Storm Rising

Red Storm Rising is a 1986 technothriller novel by Tom Clancy about a Third World War in Europe between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Warsaw Pact forces, set around the mid-1980s.

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Rokotov–Faibishenko case

The Rokotov–Faibishenko case was a criminal trial against financial speculators that took place in the Soviet Union in 1961.

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Ruslan Alikhadzhiyev

Ruslan Shamilevich Alikhadzhiev (Руслан Алихаджиев) was a parliamentary speaker of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria who was forcibly disappeared by Russian forces in 2000.

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Ruslan Gelayev

Ruslan (Hamzat) Gelayev (Руслан (Хамзат) Гелаев) (1964 – February 28, 2004) was a prominent commander in the Chechen separatist movement against Russia, in which he played a significant, yet controversial, military and political role in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present)

In February 2014, Russia made several military incursions into Ukrainian territory.

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Said Amirov

Said Dzhaparovich Amirov (Саи́д Джапа́рович Ами́ров, born 5 March 1954) is a Dagestani economist and former politician for United Russia who was mayor of Makhachkala from 1998 to 2013.

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Sergei Belyak

Sergei Belyak (Сергей Беляк; May 19, 1958) is a Russian lawyer, musician, photographer.

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Sergei Yermolinsky

Sergei Alexandrovich Yermolinsky (Russian - Сергей Александрович Ермолинский; 14 December 1900, Vilnius - 18 February 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet screenwriter.

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Sergei Yushenkov

Sergei Yushenkov (Серге́й Никола́евич Юшенко́в; 27 June 1950 – 17 April 2003) was a liberal Russian politician known for his campaigning for democracy, rapid free market economic reforms, and higher human rights standards in Russia.

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Sergey Klychkov

Sergey Antonovich Klychkov (Сергей Антонович Клычков,There is a controversy as to this. According to several sources, including the extensive biography at ruvera.ru (Russian religious site), his real name was Klychkov, as corroborrated by the church metrics, while his family's nickname in the village was Leshenkov (Лешенков, Wood Demon's people), which he occasionally used as a pen name. The Russian Writers dictionary states that Leshenkov was his real name. The Krugosvet Encyclopedia cites both version, giving no preference to one or another. 13 July 1889, - 8 October 1937) was a Russian poet, novelist and translator.

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Sergey Spigelglas

Sergey Mikhailovich Spigelglas or Spiegelglass or Shpigelglas (Серге́й Миха́йлович Шпи́гельглас) (29 April 1897 - 29 January 1941) was acting head of the Soviet foreign intelligence service, then part of the NKVD, from February to June 1938.

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Sukhanovo Prison

Sukhanovka, short for Sukhanovskaya osoborezhimnaya tyur'ma (Сухановская особорежимная тюрьма) 'Sukhanovo special-regime prison,' was a prison established by the NKVD under N. I. Yezhov in 1938 for "particularly dangerous enemies of the people" on the grounds of the old Ekaterinskaia Pustyn' Monastery near Vidnoye, just south of Moscow.

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The New Nobility

The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (2010) is a non-fiction English-language book by Russian journalists and independent security service experts Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan.

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Trial of the Four

The Trial of the Four, also Galanskov–Ginzburg trial, was the 1968 trial of Yuri Galanskov, Alexander Ginzburg, Alexey Dobrovolsky and Vera Lahkova for their involvement in samizdat publications.

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Vasily Gordov

Vasily Nikolaevich Gordov (12 December 1896 – 24 August 1950) was a Soviet military officer who commanded the Stalingrad Front between July and August 1942 until his replacement by Andrey Yeryomenko.

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Vil Mirzayanov

Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov (Вил Султанович Мирзаянов, Vil Soltan uğlı Mirzacanov; Вил Солтан улы Мирзаҗанов; born 9 March 1935 in Starokangyshevo, Dyurtyulinsky District, Bashkortostan) is a Russian chemist of ethnic Tatar origin who now lives in the United States, best known for revealing secret chemical weapons experimentation in Russia.

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Vladimir Bukovsky

From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский; b. 30 December 1942) was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well-known at home and abroad.

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Vladimir Kirpichnikov (general)

Vladimir Vasilevich Kirpichnikov (Владимир Васильевич Кирпичников, 7 July 1903 – 10 October 1950) was a Soviet general of the Red Army.

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Vladimir Linderman

Vladimir Linderman (Влади́мир Ли́ндерман, pseudonym Abel; born November 3, 1958) is a Latvian and Russian publicist, political dissident of Jewish origin, and a member of Russia's unregistered National Bolshevik Party since 1997.

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Yevgenia Ginzburg

Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 – May 25, 1977) (Евге́ния Соломо́новна Ги́нзбург) was a Russian author who served an 18-year sentence in the Gulag.

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Yuri Orlov

Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, born 13 August 1924 in Moscow) is Professor of Physics and Government at Cornell University, a former Soviet dissident, Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist, a founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group and Soviet Amnesty International group.

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Zarema Muzhakhoyeva

Zarema Muzhakhoyeva (also transliterated as Muzhikhoeva;; born 1980) is an Ingush woman and would-be shahidka (female suicide bomber) who surrendered to Moscow police on July 9, 2003, instead of blowing herself up.

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Zoya Krakhmalnikova

Zoya Alexandrovna Krakhmalnikova (Зоя Александровна Крахмальникова; January 14, 1929 – April 17, 2008) was a Russian Christian writer, of Ukrainian origin.

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1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt

The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup (r "August Putsch"), was an attempt by members of the Soviet Union's government to take control of the country from Soviet President and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefortovo_Prison

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