Natalia Pelevine

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Natalia Pelevine
Наталья Пелевина
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Наталья Пелевина
Personal details
Born (1977-11-02) 2 November 1977 (age 46)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russian
Political party RPR-PARNAS
Other political
affiliations		 December 5 Party

Natalia Pelevine (Russian: Наталья Пелевина и Пелевайн) (born on 2 November 1977) is a British-Russian playwright, political activist and blogger.

Early years

Natalia Pelevine was born in Moscow.[1] She is of Russian and Polish descent. Her great grandfather, a priest, was one of the organizers of an anti-Communist uprising in mid-western Soviet Russia in 1932. 60,000 people participated, but it was ultimately crushed. He was arrested by the NKVD and was killed after spending six months in jail. He was recently[when?] canonized. On her mother's side, Pelevine is a descendant of the Poniatowski aristocratic family.[citation needed]

Pelevine moved to England as a child and attended a private school, Southbank International. She then received BA in Art History from a London University.

Career

Theatre

Pelevine acted in a number of theatre productions and traveled to the Edinburgh Festival where she played Ophelia in Hamlet. Although the production received mixed reviews, her work was singled out and one editorial even said that with her depth the play should be renamed "Ophelia". She also performed in a number of West End productions of Chekhov, Erofeev and Beckett.

In 2004, Pelevine set up a theatre production company, First Act Productions, which is based in London.[2] She wrote In Your Hands, a play based on the events of the Moscow theater hostage crisis.[3][4] It was first staged in October 2006 in North London at the New End Theatre.[5] The Russian version of In Your Hands, directed by Skanderbek Tulparov, had its premiere at the Russian Dramatic Theatre in Makhachkala, Dagestan, in April 2008 and was banned[6] after its opening night performance by the President of Dagestan, Mukhu Aliyev, who attended the performance.[7] Reuters covered the event that was picked up by many major global media outlets.[8][9]

Her play I Plead Guilty had its New York premiere in May 2011 at Gene Frankel theatre.

Political

Pelevine was one of the people behind the independent research into the Moscow theatre siege. A member of NGO Nord Ost, she remains in close contact with Nord Ost and Beslan victims and their families. Pelevine consulted on a number of documentary films about the Moscow theatre siege.[10][11]

Pelevine has appeared as a political commentator on Al Jazeera, RTVi, PressTV, the BBC and other TV and radio channels.[12] She was also involved with the Strategy-31 Abroad organization, which rallied for the article 31 of the Russian Constitution and for freedom and democracy in Russia, and opposes the current government.[13][14] She was the organizer of the New York Strategy 31 pickets, on 31 August and 31 October 2010.[15] She also organized an Oleg Kashin picket in November 2010 and a demonstration in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on 12 December 2010, during which she mentioned setting up a new movement.[16] In early 2011, the Democratic Russia Committee was founded by Pelevine and supporters.

Formerly the head of the December 5 Party, Pelevine joined RPR-PARNAS in March 2015.[17]

Personal life

According to The Independent, in 2009 she was engaged to a Russian Special Forces officer, Andrei Yakhnev.[18] They have since split up.

References

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  2. ↑ http://www.firstactproductions.com/
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  8. ↑ http://www.suomenkuvalehti.fi/etusivu/uutiset-ja-politiikka/ulkomaat/venaja-kielsi-moskovan.aspx
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  10. ↑ http://www.icarito.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_347819510,00.html
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