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Viktor Ivanovich Anpilov (; 2 October 1945, in
Belaya Glina,
Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and is administratively a part of the Southern Federal District. Its administrative center is the t ...
– 15 January 2018, in
Moscow
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in 1972. He worked as a
Soviet
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journalist
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Roles
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in
Latin America
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. Anpilov was very fluent in Spanish.
In 1990, Anpilov was nominated as candidate for the Congress of People's Deputies and
Moscow
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city Soviet. As a candidate, he was reported to have maintained links with the ultranationalist
Pamyat movement. After the dissolution of the USSR, Anpilov became the leader of the movement
Labour Russia.
During the
1993 Russian constitutional crisis, he was one of the leaders of the anti-
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to ...
uprising.
In 1999, his movement joined the coalition
Stalin Bloc – For the USSR.
In 2007 he took part in the
Dissenters March organized to protest against president
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...
's policies. Anpilov was a well-known figure and had a certain popularity; sometimes he was also invited as a guest on TV shows.
In the 2012 presidential election, he supported
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (, , né Eidelstein, ; 25 April 1946 – 6 April 2022) was a Russian right-wing populist politician and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) from its creation in 1992 until his death in 20 ...
's candidacy.
Personal
Anpilov was fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and had worked in Latin America.
Personal Life
He had been married since 1975 to Vera Yemelyanova Anpilova.
He had two children: a daughter, Anastasia, and a son, Sergey.
Death
Anpilov died in 2018. He had been in a coma for the last three days of his life after a
stroke
Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemor ...
.
Further reading
* Ostrovsky, Alexander (2014)
Расстрел «Белого дома». Чёрный октябрь 1993 (The shooting of the "White House". Black October 1993)— М.: «Книжный мир», 2014. — 640 с. ISBN 978-5-8041-0637-0
References
External links
Labour Russia siteБиография Виктора Ивановича Анпилова
1945 births
2018 deaths
People from Krasnodar Krai
Soviet journalists
Russian politicians
Russian communists
Anti-revisionists
Antisemitism in Russia
Neo-Stalinists
Defenders of the White House (1993)
Russian dissidents
Russian nationalists
Inmates of Lefortovo Prison
Moscow State University alumni
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
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