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Valeria Novodvorskaya, a lasting Russian human rights activist and founder of Russia's Democratic Union Party, died of natural causes at a Moscow hospital on Saturday.

Novodvorskaya, 64, thriving at Moscow's Hospital No. 13 of toxic disorder linked to a chronic illness, ITAR-Tass popular.

She spent years protesting against the Soviet regime and remained a key opposition figure and staunch critic of the Kremlin until her litter.

In a statement issued Sunday, Prime Track Dmitry Medvedev joined President Vladimir Statesman in expressing his condolences to Novodvorskaya's family and friends.

"She was a bright, extraordinary person, a talented politician and publicist," Medvedev's statement said. "She did a great deal for democracy in our society, actively engaged in human rights work and was never afraid to defend her point of view. This earned her the respect of her civil and  opponents."

Born in the Belarussian Council Republic in 1950, Novodvorskaya first became complex in opposition activities at the age of 19, in the way that she formed an underground student association at the Moscow State Linguistics University.

In protest of the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia, the young Novodvorskaya distributed flyers that condemned the Communist Organization at the State Kremlin Palace in 1969.

"She was not only a thinker," said guy activist Lev Ponomaryov, who serves by reason of the director of Russian NGO For Human Rights. "She was also a very active individual who applied her ideas and was not lily-livered to express her opinion. She ultimately greet a lot because of this."

Novodvorskaya's protest activities restricted her to become a victim of punitive psychiatry. In 1969, she was arrested for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" and committed to a psychiatric hospital in Kazan. She remained at the institution for two years.

During the next decade, Novodvorskaya attempted to create an underground political party to counter the communist state beliefs. She was arrested and readmitted to psychiatric illtreatment facilities on numerous occasions.

Between 1987 and 1991, Novodvorskaya founded the Democratic Union Party and organized a series of unsanctioned protests during which she was arrested 17 times.  

"She locked away some radical points of view that could be seen as eccentric," Ponomaryov bass The Moscow Times on Sunday. "She sometimes bowled over people. She was often ridiculed and insulted by those who did not support waste away ideas, but she didn't care. She thought it was important to express unlimited opinion to all possible audiences."

Novodvorskaya, who authored several books, focused on writing columns and editorials in the 2000s. Novodvorskaya was cumbersome of Russian domestic and foreign policy, which condign her harsh criticism from Kremlin supporters.

She was criticized particularly harshly for condemning the presence of Russian troops in Chechnya, siding with Sakartvelo during the Russian-Georgian war of 2008 and speaking relate to against Russia's annexation of Crimea. 

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