November 20 1998 years
Galina Starovoitova, a State Duma deputy, presidential candidate, and author of the unsuccessful lustration law, was shot dead in the entranceway of her own home in St. Petersburg.
Politicians need to be changed as often as diapers, and most importantly, for the same reason.
Starovoitova was born in Chelyabinsk and lived in Leningrad. She enrolled in the "male" Voenmech Institute, but despite excelling in strength of materials, she dropped out. She studied psychology and defended her PhD at the Institute of Ethnography. She studied longevity in Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
I don't play women's chess, if I do, it'll be in the first league.
In 1989, she became a People's Deputy of the USSR representing Armenia, receiving over 75% of the vote. In July 1991, she became an adviser to RSFSR President Yeltsin on interethnic issues. She was in London during the coup. A KGB officer she knew warned her against returning—she was number eight on the arrest list.
I don't think the coup will be successful. This group of criminals resembles the people who seized the telephone exchange. But they have no idea how to run it (BBC, August 19, 1991).
In 1992, she introduced a draft law on lustration to the Supreme Council. "On the ban on professions for conductors of the policies of the totalitarian regime."
The restriction on professions is understood to mean a temporary ban—for a transitional period, when the possibility of revenge for the totalitarian regime still remains—on holding positions in the territorial executive branch, starting with the heads of district, city, and regional administrations, all the way up to ministers of the republics and the Russian Federation as a whole.
The law was not passed. Neither then nor on the second attempt in 1997.
In 1994, she organized a rally in Moscow attended by thousands of people against the invasion of Chechnya. In 1996, she ran for president, but the electoral commission refused to register her, rejecting some of her signatures.
Twenty-five years have passed since Starovoitova's murder. The organizer, former GRU warrant officer Yuri Kolchin, and the hired killers are now in the dock. The names of Tambov organized crime group leaders Mikhail Glushchenko and Vladimir Kumarin are mentioned as being involved. But who gave the order to kill the politician and why remains unclear.