Apologies if this isn’t as pertinent as it should be, to SFN, if perhaps it’s something of most interest to me… 
Amazing human rights activist in Russia, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, passed away December 8 2018.
Though she spent a lifetime challenging abusive leaders, her approach was never shrill, acquaintances said. Also, she saved some of her criticism not for the abusive men in power, but the people who let them get away with it.