the Chechen people", Bonner resigned from Yeltsin's Human Rights Commission and was an outspoken opponent to Russian armed involvement in Chechnya and critical of the Kremlin for allegedly returning to KGB-style authoritarianism under Vladimir Putin. She was also critical of the international "quartet" two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and has expressed fears about the rise of anti-semitism in Europe. In 1999, Yelena Bonner received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom. Bonner was among the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin must go", published 10 March 2010. Her signature was the first. Last years and death From 2006, Bonner divided her time between Moscow and the United States, home to her two children, five grandchildren, one great-granddaughter, and one great-grandson. She died on 18 June 2011 of heart failure in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 88, according to her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich. She had been hospitalized since 21 February. Works and awards Bonner was the author of Alone Together (Knopf 1987), and Mothers and Daughters (Knopf 1992), and wrote frequently on Russia and human rights. She was a recipient of many international human rights awards, including the Rafto Prize in 1991, the European Parliament's Robert Schuman Medal in 2001, the awards of International Humanist and Ethical Union, the World Women's Alliance, the Adelaida Ristori Foundation, the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, the Lithuanian Commemorative Medal of 13 January, the Czech Republic Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and others. She was also awarded the Giuseppe Motta Medal in 2004 for protection of human rights. In 2005 Bonner participated in "They Chose Freedom", a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner was on the Board of Advancing Human Rights (NGO). Depiction in media Bonner was portrayed by Glenda Jackson in the 1984 film Sakharov. References Works Further reading External links 1923 births 2011 deaths People from Mary, Turkmenistan Soviet Jews Russian Jews Turkmenistan Jews Turkmenistan people of Armenian descent Russian people of Armenian descent Soviet pediatricians Soviet people of World War II Resigned Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Moscow Helsinki Group Jewish human rights activists Russian activists Russian women activists Russian political activists Russian dissidents Soviet dissidents Soviet human rights activists Women human rights activists Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Republic of