Marina Salye
Russian politician
Died when: 77 years 154 days (929 months)Star Sign: Libra
Marina Yevgenyevna Salye (Russian: Мари́на Евге́ньевна Салье́; 19 October 1934 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian geologist and politician, being the former deputy of the legislative assembly of Leningrad (renamed St.
Petersburg on 6 September 1991).She was also a people's deputy in the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR until September 1993, when the congress was dissolved.
Salye was one of the leaders of the radical pro-reform group called Radical Democrats.Salye was known as an engaging leader and to have been first to accuse Vladimir Putin of corruption, during her tenure with the Leningrad City Council in the mid-1990s.
In March 2010 Salye signed the online anti-Putin manifesto of the Russian opposition "Putin must go".Shortly before her death in March 2012, she had also joined the People's Freedom Party.
She claimed that the years 1990–93 Lensovet members found that Vladimir Churov, head of the Russian election committee, and Igor Artemyev, head of the Antimonopoly service, worked for the KGB.
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