Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky dies
2019-10-28T08:36:49.251Z
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In the UK, at the age of 76, the Soviet dissident and writer Vladimir Bukovsky died. He died of a heart attack. In the early 1960s, Bukovsky became an active participant in the dissident movement, distributed anti-Soviet literature, and later advocated a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Bukovsky was arrested several times and sent for compulsory treatment. In the mid-1970s, he was expelled from the USSR in exchange for the leader of the Chilean communists, Luis Corvalan, and settled in the UK, where he wrote books and lectured. Bukovsky is the author of the works “And the Wind Returns”, “Letters of the Russian Traveler” and “The Moscow Process”. In 2015, he was charged with possession of child pornography. The process was terminated due to the poor state of health of the writer, but, according to the judge, could be resumed.
Source: russiart