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Yuri Schmidt

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Yuri Markovich Schmidt (Russian: Ю́рий Ма́ркович Шмидт; 10 May 1937 – 12 January 2013) was a Russian human rights lawyer known for defending dissidents since the 1970s.

Schmidt was born in Leningrad. He was a member of the Mikhail Khodorkovsky defense team from 2004, and headed the legal team for several years before his death in 2013, following a long battle with cancer.


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