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Sergei Grigoryants was born on 12 May, 1941 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, is a Russian human rights activist (1941–2023). Discover Sergei Grigoryants's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?
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Aerospace engineering, journalism, literary criticism, human rights activism, publishing |
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81 years old |
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Taurus |
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12 May 1941 |
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12 May |
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Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Date of death |
14 March, 2023 |
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Russia
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Sergei Grigoryants Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Sergei Grigoryants Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Sergei Grigoryants worth at the age of 81 years old? Sergei Grigoryants’s income source is mostly from being a successful activist. He is from Russia. We have estimated Sergei Grigoryants's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Sergei Ivanovich Grigoryants (Серге́й Ива́нович Григорья́нц, Сергі́й Іва́нович Григорья́нц, 12 May 1941 – 14 March 2023) was a Soviet dissident and political prisoner, journalist, literary critic, chairman of the Glasnost Defense Foundation.
Sergei Grigoryants was born on 12 May 1941 in Kyiv (then Kiev) in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (USSR).
He was of Armenian-Ukrainian descent.
Grigoryants studied at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, the faculty of journalism at the Moscow State University and the Riga Civil Aviation Engineers Institute (at the time all these cities were located inside the USSR).
He was imprisoned for ten years in Chistopol jail as a political prisoner for anti-Soviet activities, from 1975 to 1980 and then four more years starting in 1983 on similar charges.
In 1975, Grigoryants was arrested by the KGB and sentenced to five years in prison for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.
After his release in 1982, he circulated in samizdat information on human rights violations in the Soviet Union as editor of the periodical Bulletin V. For this activity, he was again arrested in 1984 and sentenced to ten years of strict regime labor camp.
After the beginning of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika, he was released in 1987 under amnesty.
He immediately resumed his human rights activities and proceeded to publish Glasnost magazine, criticizing the communist system.
In May 1989 Grigoryants created and headed the union of independent journalists, which included a number of journalists representing independent (samizdat) printed in the USSR.
In 1989, Grigoryants was awarded Golden Pen of Freedom Award of the World Association of Newspapers.
In the 1990s he regularly voiced his demands for lustration, filed a lawsuit against the KGB, demanded to return his confiscated archive.
Grigoryants was in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies, in particular, he expressed protests against the infringement of democratic freedoms in Russia and criticized the government for the war in Chechnya.
In 2014, Grigoryants condemned Russian aggression against Ukraine and even filed a complaint to the International Court of Justice demanding President Putin's trial.
Grigoryants died the age of 82 on 14 March 2023.
The place and cause of death, as well as the date and place of the funeral, were not reported.
