Volume 43, Number 7 · April 18, 1996
On the New Russia
By Sergei Kovalev
Editors' Note: Sergei Kovalev is Russia's leading human rights activist. A biologist and former dissident, he was imprisoned and then condemned to internal exile between 1974 and 1984. In 1990 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet and, later, to the Russian Duma. He was appointed chairman of President Yeltsin's Commission on Human Rights in 1993, and he resigned that post in January in opposition to the Yeltsin government's policies.[*]
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