Valeria Novodvorskaya, a long-standing Russian human rights activist and founder of Russia's Democratic Union Party, died of natural causes at a Moscow hospital on Saturday.
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A picture taken on December 27, 2010, shows the leader of the Democratic Union party, Valeria Novodvorskaya, supporting former head of the Russian oil company Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, during his trial outside a Moscow court. AFP PHOTO / ALEXEY SAZONOV