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Victor Davidoff
Sharm el-Sheikh

Viktor Davydov is a journalist and human rights activist. He was born in 1956 in Kuibyshev to Viktor Aleksandrovich Ryzhov, a war veteran and dean of the Kuibyshev Faculty of the All-Union Law Institute. From the mid-1970s, he participated in the dissident movement, publishing and distributing samizdat. He underwent forced treatment in Soviet psychiatric hospitals, including one under a court sentence for three years, from 1980 to 1983. After his release, he participated in the Foundation for Assistance to Political Prisoners and Their Families (The Solzhenitsyn Foundation). In 1984, he emigrated from the USSR.

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