Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and activist (died 2019)

Vladimir Bukovsky

Russian-British human rights activist (1942–2019)

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was a Soviet and Russian human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well known at home and abroad. He spent a total of twelve years in the psychiatric…