Irina Ratushinskaya

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya (, 4 March 1954, Odesa – 5 July 2017, Moscow) was a Russian dissident, poet and writer.

On September 17, 1982, Ratushinskaya was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation. In April 1983, she was convicted of "agitation carried on for the purpose of subverting or weakening the Soviet regime", sentenced to seven years in a labor camp followed by five years of internal exile. She was released on October 9, 1986, on the eve of the summit in Reykjavík, Iceland between President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Ratushinskaya died on 5 July 2017 in Moscow of cancer at the age of 63.

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