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‘I tried to help them, but my strength gave out’. For half a century, Nina Litvinova stood with Soviet and then Russian political prisoners. In May, at 80, she took her own life. — Meduza
On May 12, the dissident and human rights activist Nina Litvinova died by suicide in Moscow. From the late 1960s on, she devoted her whole life to helping political prisoners, first in the Soviet Unio...