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Ponomarev Lev Aleksandrovich is a Russian political and public figure, executive director of the all-Russian movement "For Human Rights", deputy of the National Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the federal political council of the United Democratic Movement "Solidarity", deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the first convocation.

In 1965 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), in 1968 - graduate school at MIPT. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He worked at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (ITEP), and part-time taught at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology at the Department of General Physics.

In 1988 he was one of the initiators of the creation of the Memorial Society.

In 1989, he was a confidant of Academician Andrei Sakharov in the elections of people's deputies of the USSR. Participated in the Coordination Council of the Moscow Association of Voters, in the initiative group for the creation of the “Civil Action” committee.

In 1990 he was elected people's deputy of the RSFSR. From 1990 to 1993, Lev Ponomarev - People's Deputy of Russia, member of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, member of the Committee on Media, Relations with Public Organizations, Mass Movements of Citizens and the Study of Public Opinion, member of the Democratic Russia faction and the Reform parliamentary group army."

In the fall of 1991, he headed the parliamentary commission to investigate the activities of the State Emergency Committee and clarify the role of the KGB in the creation of this committee.

On December 12, 1991, as a member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, he voted for the ratification of the Belovezhskaya Agreement on the termination of the existence of the USSR.

In 1993, he unsuccessfully ran for the State Duma in a single-mandate constituency and on the list of the Russia's Choice electoral association. Ponomarev entered parliament only in connection with the death of deputy Vasily Selyunin. From 1994 to 1996 - deputy of the State Duma, member of the Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots.

In 1997, he initiated the creation of the all-Russian movement "For Human Rights", becoming the executive director and member of the movement's Council.

Member of the “Other Russia” coalition since its founding in July 2006. Member of the coalition's executive committee.

He actively defended the former owner of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and others convicted of crimes in the field of economic activity in the YUKOS case. In 2007, he demanded that President Putin release Khodorkovsky. In 2009, together with other Solidarity activists - Roman Dobrokhotov, Oleg Kozlovsky, Alexander Ryklin, Sergei Davidis, Mikhail Shneider, Vladimir Milov, Garry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov - Lev Ponomarev took part in a series of single pickets near the Meshchansky Court building, holding a poster "Freedom for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev."

Member of the United Democratic Movement "Solidarity". On December 13, 2008, at the first congress of Solidarity, he was elected to the federal political council of the movement.

On March 31, 2009, late in the evening, he was beaten near his home; Lyudmila Alekseeva connected the attack with his human rights activities and political activity in the Solidarity movement. At the meeting of the presidents of Russia and the United States on April 1, 2009, Barack Obama, according to his aides, voiced the main concerns of the United States regarding Russia, and mentioned, among other things, the attack on Ponomarev.

Human rights activities began in 1997; Ponomarev was one of the initiators of the creation of the “Hotline” and the “For Human Rights” movement. He is also the initiator of the creation and one of the most active members of the “Common Action” group.

On January 27, 2014, human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, executive director of the Movement for Human Rights, sent an open appeal to the US Embassy and the Russian Presidential Administration calling on the presidents of the United States and Russia to become mediators in resolving the Ukrainian crisis and prevent bloodshed.

Married, has four children.

Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1965, graduate school at MIPT in 1968. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He worked at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (ITEP), and part-time taught at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology at the Department of General Physics.

In 1988, Ponomarev was one of the initiators of the creation of the Memorial Society, an all-Russian society to perpetuate the memory of victims of political repression.

In 1989, he was a confidant of Academician Andrei Sakharov in the elections of people's deputies of the USSR. Participated in the Coordination Council of the Moscow Association of Voters, in the initiative group for the creation of the “Civil Action” committee.

In 1990, he was elected as a people's deputy of the RSFSR (in the second round he defeated TV journalist Igor Arbuzov. From 1990 to 1993, Lev Ponomarev was a people's deputy of Russia, a member of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, a member of the Committee on the Media, Relations with Public Organizations, and Mass Citizens' Movements and the study of public opinion, member of the Democratic Russia faction and the Army Reform parliamentary group.

In the fall of 1991, he headed the parliamentary commission to investigate the activities of the State Emergency Committee and clarify the role of the KGB in the attempted coup.

In 1993, he unsuccessfully ran for the State Duma in a single-mandate constituency and on the list of the Russia's Choice electoral association. Ponomarev entered parliament only in connection with the death of deputy Vasily Selyunin. From 1994 to 1996 - deputy of the State Duma, member of the Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots.

In 1997, Lev Ponomarev initiated the creation of the all-Russian movement “For Human Rights,” becoming the executive director and member of the movement’s Council.

Member of the “Other Russia” coalition since its founding in July 2006. Member of the coalition's executive committee.

In April 2007, he lost a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Yuri Kalinin. The court ordered Ponomarev to refute the false information he had disseminated about Kalinin.

He actively defended the former owner of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and other people convicted of crimes in the field of economic activity in the YUKOS case, whom some human rights activists consider to be persecuted for political reasons (political prisoners), and the charges against whom are considered fabricated. In 2007, he demanded that President Putin release Khodorkovsky. In 2009, together with other Solidarity activists - Roman Dobrokhotov, Oleg Kozlovsky, Alexander Ryklin, Sergei Davidis, Mikhail Shneider, Vladimir Milov, Garry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov - Lev Ponomarev took part in a series of single pickets near the Meshchansky Court building, holding a poster "Freedom for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev."

Member of the United Democratic Movement "Solidarity". On December 13, 2008, at the first congress of Solidarity, Lev Ponomarev was elected to the movement’s federal political council.

On March 31, 2009, late in the evening, he was beaten near his home; Lyudmila Alekseeva connected the attack with his human rights activities and political activity in the Solidarity movement. At the meeting of the presidents of Russia and the United States on April 1, 2009, Barack Obama, according to his aides, voiced the main concerns of the United States regarding Russia, and mentioned, among other things, the attack on Ponomarev.

On August 25, 2010, he was sentenced to 3 days of arrest for attempting to carry the State Flag of the Russian Federation along Arbat on State Flag Day, August 22. The day before, Boris Nemtsov was acquitted in the same case.

Conversation with a Japanese Embassy employee

On March 22, 2012, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper published an article entitled “You give us yen, we give you islands.” In it, a hidden camera recorded a conversation between Ponomarev and an employee of the Japanese Embassy in Russia, which, judging by the recording, occurred in October 2011, in which he advises Japan to finance civil organizations in the Far East in order to persuade the population to transfer the disputed southern Kuril Islands to Japan, a supporter what he, Ponomarev, is (at least the transmission of Shikotan and Habomai). At the same time, Lev Aleksandrovich refers to the example of Sweden, which, according to him, gives money to support civil society in northwestern Russia. Ponomarev also allegedly gives assessments of the Russian opposition, notes that many oppositionists have experience in government work (Nemtsov, Kasyanov, Ryzhkov), but they, according to the record, are afraid of responsibility and are capable of “destabilization, bloodshed” for their own purposes. Lev Alexandrovich also claims that many non-governmental organizations in Russia are sponsored from abroad, and he himself receives money, literally, from the US State Department. In response to a question from Komsomolskaya Pravda about this meeting, Lev Ponomarev did not deny anything, but only said that he wrote a statement to the Prosecutor General demanding to explain on what basis the invasion of his “private life” occurred.

But already on March 23, in an interview with Kommersant FM radio, the human rights activist said that the video recording contains a “dirty moment, open editing.” Lev Aleksandrovich said with indignation that after the positive characterization of the opposition, he argued that the authorities, the government, looking at the growing rallies, would be faced with a choice - either to come to terms with it, or to cling to it and lead to destabilization and bloodshed. The creators of the video, according to Ponomarev, cowardly removed the words about the government, turning everything on its head, as if the opposition would be ready to give in to blood.

But Lev Aleksandrovich confirmed that, in his opinion, Shikotan and Habomai should be transferred to Japan, since these points are in the “peace treaty” of 1956 (in fact, in the Soviet-Japanese Declaration). This, as he said, is the official position of the Russian leadership, since the next day after this conversation, Putin said the same words to Japanese journalists. In his and Ponomarev’s opinion, signing a peace treaty with Japan is an important task for Russia.

Responding to accusations of funding from abroad, Lev Alexandrovich first of all said that even Putin recognizes the enormous benefit to Russia from human rights activists, since they protect the interests of ordinary people. Ponomarev said that he and his organization help “thousands, I emphasize, thousands of people, we provide free legal assistance and lobby their interests, that is, we encourage state authorities to work in the interests of Russian citizens. Moreover, we are the last authority, the last hope.” Ponomarev admitted that human rights activists receive money from international funds, both private and public, but “they were simply driven into this situation by the country’s leadership.” At the same time, Ponomarev rejected accusations that the protest movement was paid for from abroad. But he confirmed that Japanese private organizations should give money to the development of civil society in the Far East, because “private money is less vulnerable from the point of view of political cavils.”

Human rights activities

In 1997, Lev Ponomarev was one of the initiators of the creation of the “Hotline” and the “For Human Rights” movement. Lev Ponomarev is also the initiator of the creation and one of the most active members of the “Common Action” group.

Awards and prizes

• 2010 - awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by decree of Polish President Lech Kaczynski “for outstanding achievements in the field of protecting human rights and promoting civil liberties”

Family

Lev Ponomarev is married to Vera Shabelnikova.

Lev Ponomarev's daughters from his first marriage, Elena Liptser and Ksenia, are famous lawyers. Children of Lev Ponomarev from his second marriage: daughter Anastasia (born in 1984, sociologist) and son Fedor (born in 1986, journalist).

Member of the Federal Political Council of the Solidarity movement (since December 13, 2008)
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (during the period October 7, 1994 - January 15, 1996)
Deputy of the Supreme Council of Russia (from March 18, 1990 to September 21, 1993)
Education: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Academic degree: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor
Birth: September 2, 1941, Tomsk, USSR
Spouse: Vera Shabelnikova
Children: Elena Liptser, Kostromina Ksenia

(September 2, 1941, Tomsk) - Russian political and public figure. Executive Director All-Russian movement “For Human Rights”. Deputy of the National Assembly of the Russian Federation. Member of the federal political council of the United Democratic Movement "Solidarity". Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the first convocation. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1965, graduate school at MIPT in 1968. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He worked at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (ITEP), and part-time taught at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology at the Department of General Physics.

In 1988 Lev Ponomarev acted as one of the initiators of the creation of the Memorial Society, an all-Russian society to perpetuate the memory of victims of political repression.
In 1989 Lev Ponomarev was a confidant of Academician Andrei Sakharov in the elections of people's deputies of the USSR. Participated in the Coordination Council of the Moscow Association of Voters, in the initiative group for the creation of the “Civil Action” committee.

In 1990, in the elections to people's deputies of Russia Lev Ponomarev defeated sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov. From 1990 to 1993, Lev Ponomarev - People's Deputy of Russia, member of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, member of the Media Committee,
relations with public organizations, mass movements of citizens and the study of public opinion, member of the faction
"Democratic Russia" and the parliamentary group "Army Reform".

In the fall of 1991, he headed the parliamentary commission to investigate the activities of the State Emergency Committee and clarify the role of the KGB in the attempted coup.
In 1993 Lev Ponomarev unsuccessfully ran for the State Duma in a single-mandate constituency and on the list of the electoral association “Choice of Russia”. Ponomarev got into parliament only in connection with the death of deputy Vasily Selyunin. From 1994 to 1996 - deputy of the State Duma, member of the Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots.
In 1997 Lev Ponomarev initiated the creation of the all-Russian movement “For Human Rights”, becoming the executive director and member of the movement’s Council.
Lev Ponomarev- Member of the “Other Russia” coalition since its founding in July 2006. Member of the coalition's executive committee.
In April 2007, he lost a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Yuri Kalinin. The court ordered Ponomarev to refute the false information he had disseminated about Kalinin. He actively defended the former owner of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and other people convicted of crimes in the field of economic activity in the YUKOS case, whom some human rights activists consider to be persecuted for political reasons (political prisoners), and the charges against whom are considered fabricated. In 2007, he demanded that President Putin release Khodorkovsky. In 2009 Lev Ponomarev Together with other Solidarity activists - Roman Dobrokhotov, Oleg Kozlovsky, Alexander Ryklin, Sergei Davidis, Mikhail Shneider, Vladimir Milov, Garry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov - Lev Ponomarev took part in a series of single pickets near the Meshchansky Court building, holding a poster “Freedom for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev."
Member of the United Democratic Movement "Solidarity". December 13, 2008 Lev Ponomarev At the first congress of Solidarity, he was elected to the federal political council of the movement.

March 31, 2009, late in the evening, Lev Ponomarev was beaten near his home; Lyudmila Alekseeva connected the attack with his human rights activities and political activity in the Solidarity movement. At the meeting of the presidents of Russia and the United States on April 1, 2009, Barack Obama, according to his aides, voicing the main concerns of the United States regarding Russia, mentioned, among other things, attack on Ponomarev.