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Valeria Novodvorskaya, a long-standing Russian human forthright activist and founder of Russia's Democratic Integrity Party, died of natural causes at a Moscow hospital on Saturday.

Novodvorskaya, 64, deadly at Moscow's Hospital No.

13 of toxic shock linked to a chronic complaint, ITAR-Tass reported.

She spent adulthood protesting against the Soviet regime and remained a key opposition figure and staunch reviewer of the Kremlin until her litter.

In a statement issued Sunday, First Minister Dmitry Medvedev joined Director Vladimir Putin in expressing his condolences to Novodvorskaya's family and friends.

"She was a bright, extraordinary person, a talented member of parliament and publicist," Medvedev's statement said. "She did a great deal for democracy in our country, actively engaged in human work and was never afraid to defend her point of view. This justifiable her the respect of her supporters and  opponents."

Born in the Belarussian Country Republic in 1950, Novodvorskaya first became involved in opposition activities at the enlarge of 19, when she formed an underground student association at the Moscow Make Linguistics University.

In protest of the State Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia, the young Novodvorskaya distributed flyers that condemned the Communist Party at the State Kremlin Citadel in 1969.

"She was not sui generis incomparabl a thinker," said fellow activist Lev Ponomaryov, who serves as the director of Russian NGO For Human Rights.

"She was also a very disobedient individual who applied her gist and was not afraid to express an added opinion. She ultimately suffered a lot because of this."

Novodvorskaya's protest activities mystified her to become a victim of punitive therapy. In 1969, she was arrested for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" and committed to a lunatic hospital in Kazan.

She remained at the institution for two years.

During the next decade, Novodvorskaya attempted to create an underground political party to counter the communist state ideology. She was under legal restraint and readmitted to psychiatric treatment facilities on numerous occasions.

Between 1987 and 1991, Novodvorskaya founded the Democratic Union Party and organized a series of unsanctioned protests during which she was arrested 17 days.

"She had some radical in a row of view that could be specific to as eccentric," Ponomaryov told The Moscow Times on Sunday. "She sometimes staggered people. She was often ridiculed and insulted by those who did sound support her ideas, but she didn't care. She thought fit to drop was important to express her point of view to all possible audiences."

Novodvorskaya, who authored several books, focused on writing columns and editorials in the 2000s.

Novodvorskaya was critical of Russian domestic and foreign policy, which earned her wintry criticism from Kremlin supporters.

She was criticized particularly harshly for condemning the presence of Russian troops in Chechnya, siding catch on Georgia during the Russian-Georgian war of 2008 and speaking out against Russia's abduction of Crimea.

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