Marina Salye
Russian politician (1934–2012) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marina Yevgenyevna Salye (Russian: Мари́на Евге́ньевна Салье́; 19 October 1934 – 21 March 2012)[1] was a Russian geologist and politician, being the former deputy of the legislative assembly of Leningrad (renamed St. Petersburg on 6 September 1991). She was also a people's deputy in the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR until September 1993, when the congress was dissolved. Salye was one of the leaders of the radical pro-reform group called Radical Democrats.[2]
Marina Salye | |
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Born | (1934-10-19)19 October 1934 Leningrad, Soviet Union |
Died | 21 March 2012(2012-03-21) (aged 77) Ostrov, Russia |
Political party | PARNAS (2012) |
Salye was known as an engaging leader and to have been first to accuse Vladimir Putin of corruption, during her tenure with the Leningrad City Council in the mid-1990s.[1] In March 2010 Salye signed the online anti-Putin manifesto of the Russian opposition "Putin must go".[3] Shortly before her death in March 2012, she had also joined the People's Freedom Party.[4][5] She claimed that the years 1990–93 Lensovet members found that Vladimir Churov, head of the Russian election committee, and Igor Artemyev, head of the Antimonopoly service, worked for the KGB.[6]