Valery Chalidze, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Valery Chalidze

American publisher

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1938

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 03-Jan-2018

Profession: writer, physicist, human rights activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Author and publisher Valery Nikolaevich Chalidze (Russian: ????´??? ??????´???? ????´???; Georgian: ?????? ??????: 25 November 1938 – 3 January 2018) was a Soviet dissident and human rights activist, deprived of his USSR citizenship in 1972 while on a visit to the US. His Georgian father was killed during World War Two.
His mother, Francheska Jansen, was an architect and designer, descended from Poles exiled to Siberia for their opposition to the Tsarist regime.
Chalidze himself challenged the Soviet regime by mastering Soviet law, then demanding that the dictatorship comply with its own laws.
This strategy may have afforded Chalidze some protection from the prosecution faced by other dissidents.
According to fellow dissident Pavel Litvinov, ""There were rumors that he could be killed, but it was very difficult to arrest him and put him in prison." Chalidze was born in Moscow and educated as a physicist at the universities of Moscow and Tbilisi in Georgia.
In the 1960s he joined the nascent Soviet human rights movement: he began publishing Social Issues in 1969, and helped to found the Committee for Human Rights the following year.
In 1972 Chalidze was deprived of his Soviet citizenship and spent the rest of his life in the United States.