The Russian writer Vladimir Voinovich is dead



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This 10-year-old writer expelled by the Soviet government was best known for his series of satirical novels about the unfortunate Soviet warrior Ivan Cionkine

Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich died, reported the news agency Russian TASS

. Medinsky hailed V. Voinovich as a "talented writer," whose work always presented "a sharp vision of reality" and helped to "strengthen freedom of expression" in Russia.

V. Voinovich was born in 1932 in Stalinabad (today Dushanbe) in Soviet Tajikistan

. In 1974, he was removed from his position as a dissident of the Union of Soviet Writers and later deprived of his nationality and forced to leave the Soviet Union. He returned to Russia in 1990.

Shortly after becoming President of Russia, Vladimir Putin awarded V. Voinovich a State Prize in 2000.

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