What is Victor Krasin?
[[File:Vkrasin.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Krasin in 1968]] '''Victor Aleksandrovich Krasin''' (also spelled Viktor Krasin, {{lang-ru|Ви́ктор Алекса́ндрович Кра́син}}, 4 August 1929 – 3 September 2017) was a Russian [[human rights activist]], economist, a former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[dissident]] and a [[political prisoner]].<ref>[http://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/auth/authorb567.html?id=279 Красин Виктор Александрович (р.1929) экономист, правозащитник] in Russian</ref> At the time of his death Krasin was a [[United States citizen|US citizen]]. He was the founder of [[Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR]]. He was born in [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]]. Krasin died in [[Nahariya]], [[Israel]] on 3 September 2017 at the age of 88.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.svoboda.org/a/28714830.html|title=В Израиле умер экономист и правозащитник Виктор Красин|website=Радио Свобода}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Krasin, Victor}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Russian writers]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Russian economists]] [[Category:Russian human rights activists]] [[Category:Writers from Kyiv]] [[Category:Soviet dissidents]] {{bio-stub}}