Galina Starovoitova
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova (Галина Васильевна Старовойтова) (17 May 1946, Chelyabinsk - November 20, 1998 St Petersburg) was a Russian ethnographer and politician.
From 1989 until 1991 she was a People's Deputy of the Soviet Union. From 1991 until 1992 she was advisor of the Russian president for nationalities. At the 1995 Duma election she gained a constituency and became a leading member of the elected body but was eventually assassinated in 1998 in her apartment building. Her aide, Ruslan Linkov, was wounded in the attack.
Born in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk to a Belarusian father and a Russian mother, Starovoitova gained her first degree from the Leningrad College of Military Engineering (1966) and an MA in social psychology from Leningrad University in 1971. In 1980 she gained a doctorate in social anthropology from the Institute of Ethnography, USSR Academy of Sciences, where she worked for seventeen years.
Her PhD, published in 1987, was a study of the Tatars of Leningrad. She also published extensively on anthropological theory, cross-cultural studies, and Caucasian anthropology.
In June 2005 two men, Yuri Kolchin and Vitali Akishin, were convicted for her murder and sentenced to 20 and 23 years of imprisonment respectively. Akishin was the one who actually pulled the trigger and Kolchin was one of the people who organized it. The person who ordered the assassination and paid for it still has not been identified at this point.
 |
This article about a Russian politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
