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People gather to pay their last respects to Lyudmila Alexeyeva, the Moscow Helsinki Group Chair and human rights activist during a farewell ceremony in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. A Russian rights official says Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who was forced into exile by Soviet authorities after founding Russia's oldest human rights organization in 1976, has died in a Moscow hospital at 91 it was reported on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, opposition gather to honor prominent rights activist

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, congratulates the Moscow Helsinki Group Chair and human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva, during a ceremony to present the 2017 State Awards for Outstanding Achievements in Human Rights and and Charity Work in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia . Alexeyeva, who was forced into exile by Soviet authorities after founding Russia's oldest human rights organization in 1976, passed away in a Moscow hospital Friday, Dec. 7, 2018 at age 91. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia’s most famous human rights activist dies at 91

By JIM HEINTZ and MATTHEW BODNER - Associated Press

Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Russian non-government organizations say they will ignore a new Kremlin law obliging those of them that receive funding from abroad to register as “foreign agents.” Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a Soviet-era dissident who heads the Moscow Helsinki Group said Thursday that Russian rights activists have “survived the Soviet power and .. will survive this.” (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian activists to boycott law on NGOs

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press