Gratitude Fund
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The Gratitude Fund describes itself as "a non-profit organization
which was created to provide assistance to the forgotten heroes and veterans of the active struggle for freedom and human rights
in the former USSR such as ex-political prisoner
s, who were imprisoned for many years, and to the families of those dissident
s who perished in the Soviet prisons."
Yuri Fedorov founded the Fund in 1998 and serves as its president.
The Fund's Board of Directors:
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
which was created to provide assistance to the forgotten heroes and veterans of the active struggle for freedom and human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
in the former USSR such as ex-political prisoner
Political prisoner
According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country’....
s, who were imprisoned for many years, and to the families of those dissident
Dissident
A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When dissidents unite for a common cause they often effect a dissident movement....
s who perished in the Soviet prisons."
Yuri Fedorov founded the Fund in 1998 and serves as its president.
The Fund's Board of Directors:
- Vladimir BukovskyVladimir BukovskyVladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a leading member of the dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s, writer, neurophysiologist, and political activist....
- Alexander GinzburgAlexander GinzburgAlexander Ilyich Ginzburg , was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident.During the Soviet period, Ginzburg edited the samizdat poetry almanac Sintaksis. Between 1961 and 1969 he was sentenced three times to labor camps...
- Eduard KuznetsovEduard KuznetsovEduard Kuznetsov is a Soviet dissident, human rights activist, and writer.In 1961, Kuznetsov was arrested for the first time and served seven years in Soviet prisons for making overtly political speeches in poetry readings at Mayakovsky Square in the centre of Moscow and for publishing samizdat...
- Yuri Yarim-Agaev