Russian Rights Activist to Have Surgery in U.S.
Russia’s leading human rights campaigner, parliamentarian Sergei A. Kovalev, plans to travel to the United States today for heart surgery, the Itar-Tass news agency said Saturday.
The 66-year-old Kovalev had a serious heart attack in July and spent more than a month in Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital.
He has been suffering from ischemia, a condition under which blocked arteries cannot circulate enough blood to the heart muscles.
The same problem put President Boris N. Yeltsin, 65, in the hospital twice last year.
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