[1] Galina Kozhevnikova was deputy director of the Moscow human rights center "Sova", a Russian non-governmental organization (NGO).
[1] She was known in Russia as a leading expert of problem of nationalism, researching xenophobia and ethnic hatred.
[2] Kozhevnikova completed Rossiyskiy Gosudarstvennyy Gumanitarnyy Universitet, Istoriko-Arkhivnyy Institut at faculty of history-archival studies in 1997, where she also continued studies at the academic department of history of government institutions and public organizations.
Her colleagues, expressing sympathies about her early death, said that Kozhevnikova was a courageous researcher of nationalism and ethnic hatred in Russia.
Tanya Lokshina, colleague from Human Rights Watch, said that Kozhevnikova was a leading researcher of xenophobia in Russia, "She had a completely encyclopedic mind.