

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Valentina Melnikova, a Russian human rights activist and politician, a graduate of the geology department of Moscow State University and a specialist in geochemistry, but better known to us all as executive secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia. Valentina Melnikova was one of the initiators of the Russian Research Centre for Human Rights established in 1990. The video can be viewed on YouTube and below.