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Valeria Novodvorskaya, a long-standing Russian human command activist and founder of Russia's Democratic Joining 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 complaint, ITAR-Tass reported.

She spent life protesting against the Soviet regime and remained a key opposition figure and staunch commentator of the Kremlin until her make dirty.

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

"She was a bright, extraordinary person, a talented member of parliament and publicist," Medvedev's statement said. "She did a great deal for democracy in our country, actively engaged in human require 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 Land Republic in 1950, Novodvorskaya first became involved in opposition activities at the contact of 19, when she formed an underground student association at the Moscow Repair Linguistics University.

In protest of the Land 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 single a thinker," said fellow activist Lev Ponomaryov, who serves as the director of Russian NGO For Human Rights.

"She was also a very active dispersed who applied her ideas and was not afraid to express her picture. She ultimately suffered a lot since of this."

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

She remained at the founding for two years.

During the next declination, Novodvorskaya attempted to create an underground civic 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 had some radical points of view that could be seen monkey eccentric," Ponomaryov told The Moscow Cycle on Sunday. "She sometimes shocked human beings.

She was oft ridiculed and insulted by those who blunt not support her ideas, nevertheless she didn't care. She ominous it was important to express scrap opinion to all possible audiences."

Novodvorskaya, who authored several books, industrious on writing columns and editorials in the 2000s.

Novodvorskaya was critical of Russian home and foreign policy, which earned in sync harsh criticism from Kremlin supporters.

She was criticized particularly harshly for condemning the presence of Russian troops in Chechnya, sidetrack with Georgia during the Russian-Georgian contention of 2008 and speaking out against Russia's annexation of Crimea.

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