Sergei Kovalev

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Person.png Sergei Kovalev   SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician, activist)
Sergei Kovalev.jpg
Born1930-03-02
Seredyna-Buda, Ukrainian SSR
NationalityRussian
Citizenship Soviet Union (1930–1991) →  Russian Federation (1991–present)
Alma materMoscow State University
Member ofKovalev commission
InterestsRussian apartment bombings‎

Sergei Kovalev is Russian human rights activist, politician and a former Soviet dissident and political prisoner.

Activities

He formed the Kovalyov comission, an independent group to investigate the Russian apartment bombings‎. This was ineffective due to the assassination of Sergei Yushenkov[1][2] another member, Yuri Shchekochikhin, allegedly poisoned with thallium,[3][4] and its legal counsel and investigator, Mikhail Trepashkin, arrested.[5][6]

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