HERMAN OBUHOV, public person, writer
Herman Obuhov was born on 27 November, 1949 in Chelyabinsk, USSR. In 1966 he finished Minsk secondary school №1 and in 1975 he graduated from Leningrad Electrotechnical University (LETI) with a Master’s degree in radio-electronics (MSEE).
He is the author of 5 books: Extinguished Dawn 15 Years Later, Confiscated Letters, The Time of Filibusters, Bottomless, The Stolen Country.
He has also written more than 300 articles and 6 screenplays: Flight to Johannesburg, Gold Bird in Gold Cage, New Jersey Turnpike, My Alaska, Titian’s Gift, President Putin & Russian mob.
Radio Liberty and Obozrevatel (Observer) Blogger.
| Social and Political Activity | |
|---|---|
1975 - 1981 | Dissidence, samizdat (underground press), wrote “Extinguished Dawn”, an anti-communist book; |
1981 | Arrest by KGB and sentenced by Leningrad City Court to 4 years of labor camps and 2 years of exile under Art. 70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR “Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”; |
1981 - 1987 | «Political» labor camps in Perm District and exile in Khabarovsk District; |
1985 | President Reagan’s invitation to the United States, US Congress granted political asylum in advance; |
1988 | Political emigration to the UK by the invitation of Amnesty International. Publications in all leading media, interviews on the BBC, speeches at universities. Moving to the USA; |
1990 - 1995 | Worked at Yale University Medical Center, Founder and Chief Executive of the Russian-American Council for Economic Development (RACED) in partnership with Anatoly Sobchak, St. Petersburg Mayor, and Christopher Shays, US Congressman; |
1996 - 1997 | Worked at Hewlett - Packard, Andover, Massachusetts; |
1998 - 2007 | International Affairs Advisor in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, numerous meetings with politicians, including Vladimir Putin; |
2005 - 2012 | President of the Open the World for Children International Charitable Foundation, St. Petersburg, Foundation’s Trustees: ZhoresAlferov, academic, Nobel prize winner, Vadim Tulpanov, Senator from St. Petersburg, Count Peter Sheremetev (France) and others; |
2014 - 2017 | Participating in Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine. Moving from St. Petersburg to Kiev. Founder of the International Anti-Putin Coalition; |
2017 | Back to the United States. Established the Foundation, Stop Inform Terror (of Russia), Stamford, CT, USA |
Deutsche Welle: Ukraine: Exile for Russian Opposition
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