Sergei Soldatov (dissident)

January 2003 Tallinn) was one of the founders of anti-Soviet dissident movement in Estonia.

[1] Soldatov was born into a Russian Estonian family, he finished high school in Jõhvi and the Leningrad University of Technology.

In early 1970s, Soldatov participated in dissident organisation Estonian Democratic Movement and was editor of underground newspapers.

They settled in West Germany, where Sergei (thanks to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's recommendation) got the job of journalist for the Radio Liberty.

Sergei Soldatov remained critical of the developments in post-Soviet Estonia, where he returned to in 2000.