Alexander Podrabinek

Alexander Pinkhosovich Podrabinek
Native name Александр Пинхосович Подрабинек
Born (1953-08-05) August 5, 1953
Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union
Nationality Russian
Citizenship  Soviet Union (1953–1991) →  Russian Federation (1991–present)
Alma mater I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
Occupation physician, paramedic, human right activist, journalist, writer
Known for human rights activism with participation in the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes and struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, the founding of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
Notable work Punitive Medicine, Dissidents
Movement dissident movement in the Soviet Union, Solidarnost
Spouse(s) Alla[1]
Children son Mark
Awards 2013 award of Znamya magazine, Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom

Alexander Pinkhosovich Podrabinek (Russian: Алекса́ндр Пи́нхосович Подраби́нек; born August 8, 1953, Elektrostal[2]) is a Russian journalist,[3][4] human rights activist,[5] editor-in-chief of Prima information agency and Ekspress-Khronika newspaper.[6][7] He works at Radio France Internationale[8][9] and Radio Liberty.[10]

Soviet dissident

Soviet dissidents in the upper row are Naum Meiman, Sofiya Kallistratova, Petro Grigorenko, his wife Zinaida Grigorenko, Tatyana Velikanova's mother, the Priest Father Sergei Zheludkov and Andrei Sakharov; in the lower row are Genrikh Altunyan and Alexander Podrabinek. Photo taken on 16 October 1977[11]

In the Soviet Union era, Podrabinek was a Soviet dissident.[12][13]

For political reasons, he was denied entrance to medical school and at the age of 20 in 1971 became interested in political abuse of psychiatry.[14] On 5 January 1977, he initiated creating the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes.[15] In 1977, he published his observations in the groundbreaking book Punitive Medicine, which led to his arrest the following year and eventually a sentence.[16][17] On 15 August 1978, he was sentenced to five years of internal exile obviously on charges of "anti-Soviet slander."[18]

After serving the time, he was allowed to work in a medical emergency team again.

He was also editor of the first Soviet underground samizdat journal A Chronicle of Current Events.

From 1987, he edited the weekly samizdat bulletin Express Chronicle, which won a high reputation among Western journalists in Moscow and circulated in about one hundred of the major Soviet cities.[19] In 1987, he tried to initiate a campaign for amnesty for political prisoners.[20]

In March 1989, he participated in the founding of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia.[21]

Journalism

Podrabinek started working freely as a journalist only from the beginning of Perestroika and Glasnost. From 1987 to 2000 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly human right magazine Express Chronicle («Экспресс Хроника»). Since 2000, he became editor-in-chief of the Prima information agency, which specializes in human right questions.

In 2004, he was involved in publishing and distribution of book Blowing up Russia: Terror from within written by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky. Unsuccessful in finding a publisher for the book, authors printed an early draft in Russian for would-be publication in Moscow in 2004. On December 29, 2003, Russian Interior Ministry and FSB units seized 4,376 copies of the book printed in Latvia and purchased by Alexander Podrabinek's Prima information agency, which had passed customs control and were being trucked from Latvia to Moscow for retail delivery.[22] Podrabinek was summoned by the FSB to come for interrogation on January 28, 2004, but refused to answer the questions.[6][23][24][25][26][27][28]

In March 2006 Podrabinek was briefly arrested in Minsk for involvement in peaceful protests against the re-election of the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko for the third term.

In some publications, he expressed his concern about the revival of the use of psychiatry for political repression in Russia,[29][30] including the non-voluntary hospitalization of Larisa Arap.[31]

He appears in the 2005 documentary They Chose Freedom and in the 2013 documentary Parallels, Events, People.

On 3 June 2008, he became a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[32]

He was later targeted by a nationalist youth movement Nashi, after publishing an editorial on www.ej.ru in September 2009 about a Moscow restaurant changing its name from "Anti-Soviet" under pressure from local officials who said it was offensive to "Soviet veterans."[33][34][35]

In March 2010 he signed the online anti-Putin manifesto of the Russian opposition "Putin must go".

On 25 September 2013, he held a protest in support of imprisoned Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot band.[36]

Since 2014, he is a host of program "Deja Vu" at Radio Liberty.[10] His articles were published by the Institute of Modern Russia.[37]

In 2015, he was awarded with Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom.[38][39][40]

His works

Further reading

Podrabinek's interviews

References

  1. ↑ Подрабинек, Алла (2010). "По пути к Большой Медведице" [On the way to Big Dipper]. Zvezda (in Russian) (2).
  2. ↑ "The trial of Alexander Podrabinek" (PDF). A Chronicle of Current Events (Amnesty International Publications) (Nr 50): 81–89. 1979.
  3. ↑ Luty, Jason (January 2014). "Psychiatry and the dark side: eugenics, Nazi and Soviet psychiatry". Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 20 (1): 52–60. doi:10.1192/apt.bp.112.010330.
  4. ↑ "Russian journalist fears high-level death threat". Index on Censorship. 29 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "Russian journalist fined for 'anti-Soviet' web article". Radio Liberty. 27 January 2010.
  6. 1 2 "Newsline - January 28, 2004. FSB summons activist editor for questioning". Radio Liberty. 28 January 2004.
  7. ↑ The persecution of Human Rights Monitor. December 1988 to December 1989. A worldwide survey. Human Rights Watch. December 1989. p. 330.
  8. ↑ Davidoff, Victor (13 October 2013). "Soviet Psychiatry Returns". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  9. ↑ Judan, Ben (1 October 2009). "Reporter says criticism of Soviets brought threats". The San Diego Union Tribune.
  10. 1 2 "Автор: Александр Подрабинек" (in Russian). Radio Liberty.
  11. ↑ Подрабинек, Александр (2014). Диссиденты [Dissidents] (in Russian). Moscow: АСТ. ISBN 978-5-17-082401-4.
  12. ↑ Peunova, Marina (September 2008). "From dissidents to collaborators: the resurgence and demise of the Russian critical intelligentsia since 1985". Studies in East European Thought 60 (3): 231–250. doi:10.1007/s11212-008-9057-8.
  13. ↑ Shipler, David (Summer 1989). "Dateline USSR: on the human rights track". Foreign Policy (75): 164–181. doi:10.2307/1148870.
  14. ↑ Kosserev I, Crawshaw R (24 December 1994). "Medicine and the Gulag". BMJ 309 (6970): 1726–1730. doi:10.1136/bmj.309.6970.1726. PMC 2542687. PMID 7820004.
  15. ↑ Miku, Natalya; Molkin Alexey [Наталья Мику, Алексей Молькин] (2015). "Консультант правозащитной ассоциации "Рабочей комиссии по расследованию использования психиатрии в политических целях"—врач-психиатр А.А. Волошанович" [The consultant of human rights association "The Working Commission on Investigation of Use of Psychiatry in Political Goals "—Psychiatrist A.A. Voloshanovich]. Современные научные исследования и инновации [Modern Scientific Studies and Innovations] (in Russian) (3).
  16. ↑ Langone, John (10 April 1989). "Medicine: a profession under stress". Time.
  17. ↑ Langone, John (24 June 2001). "A profession under stress". Time.
  18. ↑ Rohrer, Daniel (1979). Freedom of speech and human rights: an international perspective. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. p. 100. ISBN 0840319878.
  19. ↑ Reddaway, Peter (8 December 1988). "Soviet psychiatry: a message from Moscow". The New York Review of Books.
  20. ↑ Александр Подрабинек (2015). Наша кампания за амнистию [Our campaign for amnesty]. Zvezda (in Russian) (4). Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  21. ↑ Savenko, Yuri [Юрий Савенко] (2009). "20-летие НПА России" [20th anniversary of the IPA of Russia]. Nezavisimiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal [The Independent Psychiatric Journal] (in Russian) (1): 5–18. ISSN 1028-8554.
  22. ↑ Archived June 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  23. ↑ Гостайну не выдал by Orhan Cemal, Novaya Gazeta, January 29, 2004.
  24. ↑ Uzzell, Lawrence (4 February 2004). "Kremlin threatens human rights activist". North Caucasus Analysis 5 (5).
  25. ↑ "Правозащитника Александра Подрабинека вызвали на допрос в ФСБ". Lenta.ru. 27 January 2004.
  26. ↑ ФСБ: В книге "ФСБ взрывает Россию" разглашена гостайна, Grani.ru, January 28, 2004.
  27. ↑ "ФСБ и милиция арестовали тираж книги "ФСБ взрывает Россию"". Lenta.ru. 30 December 2003.
  28. ↑ ФСБ задержала тираж книги "ФСБ взрывает Россию", Grani.ru, December 29, 2003.
  29. ↑ Podrabinek, Alexander [Александр Подрабинек] (15 August 2015). "Российские коммунисты мечтают о советской психиатрии" [Russian communists dream of Soviet psychiatry] (in Russian). Radio France Internationale.
  30. ↑ Podrabinek, Alexander [Александр Подрабинек] (29 August 2015). "Тоска по советской психиатрии" [Nostalgia for Soviet psychiatry] (in Russian). Radio Liberty.
  31. ↑ Podrabinek, Alexander [Александр Подрабинек] (2 August 2007). "Хотелось бы иметь права" [One would like to have rights]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian) (Nr 58).
  32. ↑ "Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, June 3rd, 2008, Prague, Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. Declaration text". 3 June 2008. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  33. ↑ Robinson, Matt (29 September 2009). "Russian journalist in hiding after Soviet critique". Reuters.
  34. ↑ Odynova, Alexandra (6 October 2009). "Kremlin advisers warn Nashi youth". The Moscow Times.
  35. ↑ Pamfilova Won't Apologize to Nashi, The St. Petersburg Times (October 9, 2009)
  36. ↑ "Husband: Pussy Riot band member hospitalized". San Diego Union-Tribune. 29 September 2013.
  37. ↑ Podrabinek, Alexander. "Articles". Institute of Modern Russia.
  38. ↑ Сулькин, Олег (11 July 2015). "Александр Подрабинек: "Системе надо противостоять"" [Alexander Podrabinek: "One needs to resist the system"] (in Russian). Voice of America.
  39. ↑ McIntyre, Ken (12 June 2015). "Anti-Communist Group Honors Cuban Dissident Who ‘Lost Hope’ in Obama". The Daily Signal.
  40. ↑ Edwards, Lee (19 June 2015). "Yes, communism is still with us". Human Events.
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