FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 file photo, Sergei Kovalev, Russian rights activist, speaks outside the court room in Moscow, Russia. Sergei Kovalev, a renowned human rights advocate and dissident who has campaigned against the Kremlin since the Soviet times, died in Russia on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021 at the age of 91, his son said on Facebook. A prolific biophysicist, Kovalev was part of the first independent human rights association in the Soviet Union, co-authored a chapter of Russia's constitution and served as the first ever human rights ombudsman in Russia. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
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