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Honorary members
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Vladimir Bukovsky
Honorary membership awarded in 2008
Vladimir Bukovsky is one of the most famous Soviet dissidents, having spent almost 10 years in prisons, camps and the notorious "psychiatric wards". Known as "The Hooligan" for his reckless disregard of the Soviet regime, he managed to smuggle to the West information about the USSR's abuse of psychiatrical wards for political purposes, becoming a cause of embarrassment and irritation for the Soviet authorities. In 1976, Bukovsky was finally exchanged for former Chilean Communist leader Luis Corvalán. He settled in the UK and graduated from Cambridge University, having studied neurophysiology. Mr. Bukovsky is an outspoken critic of both Putin's Russia and the EU. In 2008, he once again became the centre of media attention when he agreed to run for Russian President, having been nominated by a coalition of democratic forces.
Vladimir Bukovsky's exclusive lecture at the Oxford Univeristy Russian Society on March the 2nd, the day of the Russian Presidential elections, attracted over 120 people to Merton college.
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