YABLOKO leader considers Valeria Novodvorskaya one of the most honest democrats in Russia
Interfax,12.07.2014
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin considers the death of the dissident and politician Valeria Novodvorskaya a loss for Russia’s democratic movement. “The moral levels and criteria are degrading very intensively within the modern opposition movement. Valeria Ilyinichna had always been one of the guarantors of these criteria. Her death is a big loss for the democratic movement”, said Sergei Mitrokhin to the Interfax news agency.
He said he had been acquainted with Valeria Novodvorskaya since 1980s. “She was a very original, strong person. A person of solid political views. She must have been one of the most sincere and honest democrats in the contemporary history of Russia”, said YABLOKO leader. The sequence and adherence of Novodvorskaya played a moral rather than a political role in the history of Russia. She set a high moral level for politicians and she was an authority in that sense and for the people who founded the YABLOKO party as well”, said Mitrokhin.
The dissident, opposition politician and publicist Valeria Novodvorskaya passed away on Saturday, July 12, at the age of 64.
Posted: July 15th, 2014 under History.