Memorial Service For Russian Rights Activist Alexeyeva To Be Held On Tuesday - Statement

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 09th December, 2018) A memorial service for Russian rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva will be held at the Central House of Journalists in Moscow on Tuesday, the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights said.

"A memorial service for Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alexeyeva ... will take place at the Central House of Journalists on December 11 from 10:00 a.m. [7:00 GMT] to 1:00 p.m.," the council said in a statement.

Mikhail Fedotov, the council's chairman, told Sputnik that Alexeyeva would be cremated, as it was her will.

"The cremation will take place at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, with only family and relatives present.

After that, her ashes will be buried in a family grave," he said.

Fedotov also confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin's meeting with the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights of the new convocation, which had been previously scheduled for Tuesday, would take place as planned.

Alexeyeva was a prominent Soviet dissident and one of the founding members of the Moscow Helsinki Group, which was aimed at monitoring the Soviet Union's compliance with the Helsinki Accords. She remained an active rights defendant till the last day of her life.