1. Galina Starovoytova was shot to death in her apartment building in 1998.
12 Facts About Galina Starovoytova
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Galina Starovoytova conducted PhD research at the end of the 1970s, focusing on a sensitive topic at that period, specifically on the role of ethnic groups in Soviet cities.
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Galina Starovoytova's PhD thesis, published in 1987, was a study of the Tatars of Leningrad.
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Galina Starovoytova Starovoitova began her political career in 1989, when she was elected as a representative to the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from Armenia.
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Galina Starovoytova advocated for the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh during the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
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Galina Starovoytova was an editorial board member of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published in cooperation with the American University and Moscow State University.
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Galina Starovoytova said, "I propose a decision to order a medical examination of deputies of the State Duma, especially in the light of yesterday's voting on the battle against anti-semitism, when many of our colleagues gave us reason to doubt their mental health".
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Galina Starovoytova Starovoitova tried to prevent such people from coming to power using her personal connections with different political figures and with Yeltsin's wife, according to Valeriy Borschov.
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Galina Starovoytova made this part of her political platform in "Democratic Russia".
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Galina Starovoytova voted against nominating Yevgeny Primakov for Prime Minister.
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Valeria Novodvorskaya claimed that the Russian state security services murdered Galina Starovoytova to eliminate her influence on Boris Yeltsin and her resistance in appointing former KGB general Yevgeny Primakov as Prime Minister of Russia.
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Shortly before her death, Galina Starovoytova Starovoitova established an award "for contributions to the protection of human rights and consolidation of democracy in Russia".