Facts: - residence: moscow - native name: - known for: human rights activism - fields: psychiatry - workplaces: the independent psychiatric association of russia - awards: the historic contribution to the defence of human rights and the award human rights movement '' of the moscow helsinki group '' for - name: yuri sergeevich savenko - citizenship: -lrb- to the present -rrb- 1946 -- 1991 -rrb- -lrb- 1991 -- up - nationality: russian - image: savenko yuriy sergeevich.jpg - birth place: soviet union Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of yuri savenko .
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yuri sergeevich savenko -lrb- -rrb- is a russian psychiatrist , the president since 1989 of the independent psychiatric association of russia .he is also a member of the council of experts of the russian commissioner for human rights in the russian federation .he holds m.d. qualification and is editor-in-chief of and a regular contributor to the '' nezavisimiy psikhiatricheskiy zhurnal '' , which has been published since 1991 .he had been working as editorial consultant of the '' moskovskiy psikhoterapevticheskiy zhurnal '' -lrb- '' moscow journal for psychotherapy '' -rrb- for many years before he left this position in 2008 .before defending his doctoral thesis , savenko was expelled from the institute of psychiatry in 1974 .his main works concern anxious psychotic syndromes , psychotic disorders problems , subject of psychiatry , and the classification of mental disorders .yuri savenko took part in a ' wrongful confinement ' lawsuit filed in the european court of human rights in 2003 .when writing about this case , savenko charged the serbsky institute with having a '' pernicious effect on russian medicine '' and warned that the leadership of the psychiatric community '' is now completely under the shadow of the state . ''on 28 may 2009 , yuri savenko wrote to the president of the russian federation dmitry medvedev an open letter , in which savenko asked medvedev to submit to the state duma a draft law prepared by the independent psychiatric association of russia to address a sharp drop in the level of forensic psychiatric examinations , which savenko attributed to a lack of competition within the sector and its increasing nationalization .in 2009 , yuri savenko and valery krasnov provided the leadership for the second east european congress of psychiatry in moscow .