At the age of 92, the founder of the Yabloko party and one of the co-authors of the 1993 Russian Constitution, politician and economist Viktor Sheinis, has died. Politician Lev Shlosberg spoke about this.
“Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis, a great citizen and thinker, co-author of the free chapter of the Russian Constitution, the man who invented the Yabloko party, has died. Sheinis passed away on terrible days for our country, but when freedom and peace come to Russia, he will be among those who brought this time closer with all their might, ”wrote Shlosberg in his Telegram channel. The press service of Yabloko noted that the time and place of farewell to Sheinis will be announced later.
Sheinis was born in 1931 in Kyiv, he graduated from the history department of Leningrad State University. In 1958, while he was in graduate school, he was expelled from there—and also from the Komsomol—for criticizing the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 in an article co-authored by Sejnis, called The Truth About Hungary.
In 1990 he was elected a people's deputy of the RSFSR, and in December 1991, being a member of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, he voted for the ratification of the Belovezhskaya agreement on the termination of the existence of the Soviet Union. In 1993, Sheinis was elected to the State Duma, he became a member of the Yabloko faction.
In 2020, when the Russian authorities initiated the renewal of the Constitution, Sheinis was one of those who signed an appeal to the Council of Europe against the Constitution Russia.