Georgy Aleksandrovich Satarov (russian: Георгий Александрович Сатаров; born August 22, 1947 in

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), is a Russian

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and a former aide to Russian President

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

(1994–1997). Since October 1997, he has headed the InDem Foundation and specializes in researching Russia's

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Biography

In 1972, he graduated from the Moscow Lenin Pedagogical Institute, Mathematics Department, where he stayed on as a researcher until 1990. In 1993, he participated in devising a new

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, which was adopted in December that year. From February 1994 until September 1997, he was an aide to President Boris Yeltsin as a member of the Presidential staff. Starting in December 2004, Satarov, along with

Lyudmila Alexeyeva Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva (russian: Людми́ла Миха́йловна Алексе́ева, ; 20 July 1927 – 8 December 2018) was a Russian people, Russian historian and human-rights activist who was a founding member in 1976 of the ...

and

Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by ...

, co-chaired the All-Russian Civic Congress, which Alexeyeva and Satarov left due to disagreement with Kasparov in January 2008. From July 2006 until July 2007, Satarov was one of the key members of Russia's pro-democracy movement The Other Russia.

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