41-year-old Yelena Grigoryeva, a civic activist who fiercely opposed Russia’s occupation of Crimea and who often took part in pickets protesting against the mounting persecution of Crimean Tatars has been brutally murdered in St. Petersburg. Grigoryeva was also active in defending LGBT rights and it seems that at least some of the threats which she had recently received were because of her links to the LGBT community.
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The photo shows Russian human rights activist Yelena Grigoryeva, brutally murdered in St. Petersburg on July 22.
