Alexander Podrabinek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alexander Podrabinek

Russian journalist

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1953

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Profession: writer, author, human rights activist, journalist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Alexander Pinkhosovich Podrabinek (Russian: ??????´??? ??´???????? ???????´???; born 8 August 1953, Elektrostal) is a Soviet dissident, journalist and commentator.
During the Soviet period he was a human rights activist, being exiled, then imprisoned in a corrective-labour colony, for publication of his book Punitive Medicine in Russian and in English.In 1987, while still forced to live outside Moscow in internal banishment, Podrabinek became the founder and editor-in-chief of the Express Chronicle weekly newspaper.
In the 1990s he set up and ran the Prima information agency.
Over the past ten years he has worked, variously, for the Novaya gazeta newspaper, the Yezhednevny Zhurnal website and the Russian Services of Radio France Internationale and Radio Liberty.