Marina Yevgenyevna Salye (; 19 October 1934 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian geologist and politician, being the former deputy of the legislative assembly of Leningrad (renamed St. Petersburg on 6 September 1991). She was also a people's deputy in the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR until September 1993, when the congress was dissolved. Salye was one of the leaders of the radical pro-reform group called Radical Democrats. Salye was known as an engaging leader and to have been first to accuse Vladimir Putin of corruption, during her tenure with the Leningrad City Council in the mid-1990s. In March 2010 Salye signed the online anti-Putin manifesto of the Russian opposition "Putin must go". Shortly before her death in March 2012, she had also joined the People's Freedom Party. She claimed that the years 1990–93 Lensovet members found that Vladimir Churov, head of the Russian election committee, and Igor Artemyev, head of the Antimonopoly service, worked for the KGB. Early life Salye was born into a distinguished St. Petersburg family, and her great-great-grandfather was a watchmaker to the tsar. She earned a doctorate of geology and became a research scientist at Leningrad's Institute of Geology until 1990. She studied rocks across the Soviet Union, but during Mikhail Gorbachev's attempted political openness, or glasnost, in the late 1980s, Salye rose as a leader of a new group of democratic activists. Political career In 1988-1990, Salye was one of the leaders of Leningrad People's Front (LNF), one of the largest and most pro-perestroika local political clubs in the country. She also co-founded Inter-Regional Association of Democratic Organizations (MADO), a national association of groups in support of the Inter-Regional Deputies Group that was led in the USSR Congress of People's Deputies by Boris Yeltsin, Andrei Sakharov, and others. In 1990, she was elected to Russia's legislature and co-founded, with Lev Ponomarev, the Free Democratic Party of Russia (SvDPR), which, in turn, became a founding member organization of the Democratic Russia Movement. Salye was prominent on the radical flank of this movement and in 1991-92 joined forces with Yury Afanasyev and his followers in calling for the movement to take a more critical stance toward the Yeltsin administration and the mayors of Moscow and St.Petersburg in their pursuit of rapid neoliberal market reforms and shadow privatization of industries. They also called for the convocation of a national Constituent Assembly to replace both