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''12 Who Don't Agree'' () is a 2009 non-fiction book by the Russian writer Valery Panyushkin. The book is based on the life of
Russian opposition Opposition to the government of President Vladimir Putin in Russia, commonly referred to as the Russian opposition, can be divided between the parliamentary opposition parties in the State Duma and the various Non-system opposition, non-systemi ...
activists. ''12 Who Don't Agree'' was published in 2009 in
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(Russia). This book was also published in English translation in 2011 in
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Marina Litvinovich Marina Alekseyevna Litvinovich (, born 19 September 1974) is a Russian opposition activist and politician. Life Litvinovich became active in politics in 1996. In the late 1990s she created Russia's first political website for Boris Nemtsov, at t ...
* Vissarion Aseev * Anatoliy Ermolin *
Maria Gaidar } Maria Yegorovna Gaidar (;, 1990–2004 Smirnova (); born 21 October 1982) is a Ukrainian politician. Gaidar served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kirov region of Russia. She founded the Social Assistance and Population Support Founda ...
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Ilya Yashin Ilya Valeryevich Yashin (; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian opposition politician who led the People's Freedom Party (PARNAS) from 2012 to 2016, and then its Moscow branch. He was also head of the Moscow municipal district of Krasnoselsky an ...
* Sergei Udaltsov *
Maxim Gromov Maxim Alexandrovich Gromov (; born 1973) is a Russian political dissident, human rights activist, former political prisoner, publicist, member of National Bolshevik Party since 1999 and one of the leaders of the political party The Other Russia ...
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Natalia Morar Natalia Morari (born 12 January 1984) is a Moldovan journalist, known for her investigative work and political talk shows. Biography Morari was born in Hîncești, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Moldova) on January 12, ...
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Victor Shenderovich Viktor Anatolyevich Shenderovich (; born August 15, 1958) is a Russian satirist, writer, scriptwriter and radio host. Biography Shenderovich, born in Moscow into a family of Belarusian Jewish origin, graduated in 1980 from the Moscow State Art ...
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Andrey Illarionov Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov (, born 16 September 1961) is a Russian economist and former senior policy advisor to Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, from April 2000 to December 2005. Since April 2021, he is a senior fellow at the non-go ...
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Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein on 13 April 1963) is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess Elo rating system, ra ...
* Valery Panyushkin12 несогласных Валерия Панюшкина Радио "Свобода", 19.04.2009
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Overview

* Published in Russia in 2009, journalist Valery Panyushkin's semi-autobiographical novel Twelve Who Don't Agree depicts twelve very different Russians from across the country's social, political and economic spectrum: chess champion and the chairman of the United Civil Front, Garry Kasparov. A columnist for the liberal Russian paper New Times, Viktor Shenderovich. The young center-left independent politician; Maria Gaidar. The passionate leader of the RPR-PARNAS party; Ilya Yashin. The unofficial leader of the radical communist group, the Vanguard of Red Youth; Sergei Udaltsov. The Bolshevik opposition-party leader; Maxim Gromov. The former adviser to President Vladimir Putin; Andrei Illarionov. The editor-in-chief of the popular dissident website Pravda Beslan; Marina Litvinovich. The former police officer and politician for 'Putin's Party,' United Russia; Anatoly Yermolin. The Moldovan investigative journalist for the Russian magazine New Times; Natalya Morar, and human rights activist Vissarion Aseev.


See also

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Dissenters' March The Dissenters' March () was a series of Russian opposition protests that took place on December 16, 2006 in Moscow, on March 3, 2007 in Saint Petersburg, on March 24, 2007 in Nizhny Novgorod, on April 14, 2007 for the second time in Moscow, on ...
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2009 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2009. Events *April 21 – UNESCO launches the World Digital Library. *May 1 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woma ...
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Russian literature Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its Russian diaspora, émigrés, and to Russian language, Russian-language literature. Major contributors to Russian literature, as well as English for instance, are authors of different e ...


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Europa Editions - 12 Who Don't Agree
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