Viktor Alekseyevich Popkov

Plaats: Moscow

Geboren: 1946

Dood: 2001

Biografie:

Viktor Alekseyevich Popkov was a Russian dissident, Christian, humanitarian, human rights activist and journalist. He was born in Moscow, Russia in 1946 and died in 2001. Popkov was deeply religious Old Believer and pacifist, who taught non-violence and spent the last 15 years of his life in conflict areas of the collapsing Soviet Union, including the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict, the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and the Chechen Wars. He died after being shot during a drive-by shooting while working as an aid worker in Chechnya days earlier.