Alexander Podrabinek
Alexander Podrabinek | |
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Александр Подрабинек | |
Podrabinek in 1980 | |
| Born | 8 August 1953 Elektrostal, Moscow Region, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union (1953–1991) → Russian Federation (1991–present) |
| Alma mater | I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University |
| Occupation(s) | paramedic, human right activist, journalist, writer |
| Known for | human rights activism in USSR in the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes and struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union; the post-1991 founding of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia |
| Notable work | Punitive Medicine (1979), Dissidents (2014) |
| Movement | dissident movement in the Soviet Union, Solidarnost |
| Spouse | Alla |
| Children | sons Mark and Daniil, daughter Anna |
| Awards | Znamya magazine award 2013, Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, 2015 |
Alexander Pinkhosovich Podrabinek (Russian: Алекса́ндр Пи́нхосович Подраби́нек; born 8 August 1953) is a Soviet dissident, journalist and commentator. During the Soviet period he was a human rights activist, being exiled, then imprisoned in a corrective-labour colony, for publication of his book Punitive Medicine in Russian and in English.
In 1987, while still forced to live outside Moscow in internal banishment, Podrabinek became the founder and editor-in-chief of the Express Chronicle weekly newspaper. In the 1990s he set up and ran the Prima information agency. Over the past ten years he has worked, variously, for the Novaya gazeta newspaper, the Yezhednevny Zhurnal website and the Russian Services of Radio France Internationale and Radio Liberty.