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/ 20 November 2006
Pioneering sociologist Yuri Levada, who was shut out of his profession in Soviet times but came back to track public opinion as Russia made the transition from communism, died on November 16 at his institute in Moscow. The cause of the 76-year-old Levada’s death was a heart attack, said a colleague at the Levada Analytical Centre.
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/ 9 February 2005
Seventeen prominent Russian human rights activists called on President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to take up Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov’s call for negotiations to bring an end to the fighting that has raged in southern Russia for the better part of the past decade.