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Alexander Dolmatov
Engineers
1976-09-12
Умер(ла)
Moscow
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Supporter of The Other Russia party. Worked as a leading designer at a major defence design bureau. On May 6, 2012, he was detained during the March of Millions in Moscow for disobeying police officers. Together with other participants of the rally on Bolotnaya Square, he was taken to the Taganskoe police department, where he spent about a day and a half. After his release, he complained of harassment and threats from the security services, and on June 10 he flew to the Netherlands via Kiev. Three days later, he applied for political asylum in the Netherlands, but he
Supporter of The Other Russia party. Worked as a leading designer at a major defence design bureau. On May 6, 2012, he was detained during the March of Millions in Moscow for disobeying police officers. Together with other participants of the rally on Bolotnaya Square, he was taken to the Taganskoe police department, where he spent about a day and a half. After his release, he complained of harassment and threats from the security services, and on June 10 he flew to the Netherlands via Kiev. Three days later, he applied for political asylum in the Netherlands, but he was refused.
He was in a deportation prison in Rotterdam, where he committed suicide on 17 January 2013.
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