Boris Perchatkin
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Boris Perchatkin[lower-alpha 1] (Russian: Бори́с Гео́ргиевич Перча́ткин; born 1 July 1946[1]) — the most famous participant in the Nakhodka's religious emigration movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s,[2] a human rights activist who lobbied in the United States for the adoption of the "Lautenberg's Amendment" in 1989, as a result of which about 1 million people emigrated to the United States from the countries of the former USSR.[3]
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