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Arseny Roginsky at the dedication of a memorial in Moscow in 2016.
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Arseny Roginsky
Died on December 18, 2017 at age 71
Mr. Roginsky was the longtime leader of the Russian human rights organization Memorial and a Soviet-era dissident who documented the victims of state persecution during the Cold War and after.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.