he U.S. Institute of Peace mourns the death of Galina Starovoitova, a senior fellow here in 1993–94. One of Russia’s leading democratic political figures and a crusader for political reforms and human rights, Starovoitova was slain in St. Petersburg on November 20 in what appears to have been a political assassination.

Elected to the Russian State Duma in the December 1995 legislative elections, Starovoitova served as a deputy from a single-member district in St. Petersburg. She was Russia’s leading female political personage and a possible presidential candidate to succeed Yeltsin. Starovoitova also was a prominent ethnographer and supporter of minority rights. “Galina Starovoitova was the model of the scholar-practitioner, bridging the gap between academia and politics,” said Institute president Richard H. Solomon. While at the Institute, she completed a Peaceworks report, Sovereignty After Empire: Self-Determination Movements in the Former Soviet Union.

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