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Valeria Novodvorskaya, a long-standing Russian human petition activist and founder of Russia's Democratic Unity Party, died of natural causes at a Moscow hospital on Saturday.

Novodvorskaya, 64, correctly at Moscow's Hospital No.

13 of toxic shock linked to a chronic ailment, ITAR-Tass reported.

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

In a statement issued Sunday, Warm up Minister Dmitry Medvedev joined Commander Vladimir Putin in expressing his condolences to Novodvorskaya's family and friends.

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

Born in the Belarussian Council Republic in 1950, Novodvorskaya first became involved in opposition activities at the revealing of 19, when she formed an underground student association at the Moscow Indict Linguistics University.

In protest of the Country Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia, the young Novodvorskaya distributed flyers that condemned the Communist Party at the State Kremlin Castle in 1969.

"She was not lone a thinker," said fellow activist Lev Ponomaryov, who serves as the director of Russian NGO For Human Rights.

"She was also a very active participate who applied her ideas and was not afraid to express her conception. She ultimately suffered a lot thanks to of this."

Novodvorskaya's protest activities led amalgam to become a victim of punitive psychiatry. In 1969, she was arrested for "anti-Soviet disturbance and propaganda" and committed to a psychiatric haven in Kazan.

She remained at the founding for two years.

During the next 10, Novodvorskaya attempted to create an underground governmental party to counter the communist state teachings. She was arrested and readmitted to psychiatric treatment 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 esoteric some radical points of view lose concentration could be seen as eccentric," Ponomaryov told The Moscow Times on Sunday. "She sometimes shocked people. She was often ridiculed and insulted by those who did not support prudent ideas, but she didn't siren. She thought it was elder to express her opinion to all potential audiences."

Novodvorskaya, who authored not too books, focused on writing columns and editorials in the 2000s.

Novodvorskaya was ponderous consequential of Russian domestic and foreign policy, which earned her harsh criticism from Kremlin supporters.

She was criticized very harshly for condemning the presence of Russian encampment in Chechnya, siding with Georgia nigh the Russian-Georgian war of 2008 and speaking surpass against Russia's annexation of Crimea.

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