Valeriya Novodvorskaya

Valeriya Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya (; 17 May 1950 – 12 July 2014) was a liberal Russian politician and Soviet dissident. She was the founder and the chairwoman of the "Democratic Union" party and a member of the editorial board of the news magazine "The New Times". Novodvorskaya was a fierce critic of the president Vladimir Putin and his regime.