“Today at 03:30, Andrey Babushkin died in intensive care. A wonderful man of a huge, pure soul, a true defender of people’s rights, has passed away,” a member of the Human Rights Council wrote on his Telegram channel. Kirill Kabanov.
The HRC website reports that Babushkin was born on January 28, 1964 in the village of Zvyagino, Pushkinsky District, Moscow Region. Since 1993, he has headed a number of human rights organizations. Since 2000, he became the initiator of the project still operating to help street children, the author of a number of norms included in the current legislation, an expert on legal issues of international organizations.
