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On the death of the Soviet dissident Sergei Kovalev

Civil rights activist Sergei Kovalev sat in Soviet camps and prisons for his convictions. As a politician in the Soviet Union and after 1991 in Russia, he fought steadfastly for freedom, against hatred and war. His legacy is more relevant than ever.

Sergei Kowaljow (1930–2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg in 2009 when the Sakharov Prize was awarded.

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There he stood at events well into old age, a little stooped, with a watchful look, argumentative, incorruptible, indomitable and completely unpretentious: Sergei Adamowitsch Kowaljow, the former Soviet dissident, civil rights activist and fighter for freedom and human rights beyond the break of an era. Now at the age of 91 and a moral authority to the end of his life, he fell asleep on Monday night in Moscow.

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