Publicist Sergey Kara-Murza has died at the age of 86.

Soviet and Russian ideologist, sociologist, scientist and publicist Sergei Kara-Murza died at the age of 87. This was announced on October 18 by the philosopher Rustem Fahitov in his Telegram channel.

"Sergei Georgievich Kara-Murza, one of the leading ideologists and publicists of the left—wing patriotic opposition of the 90s-2010s, a man who showed the importance of the spirit of the Russian peasant community for Soviet society, a wise, sensitive, kind man whom I had the good fortune to know and consider and will consider my teacher, has died," he wrote. He's in the message.

Sergey Kara-Murza was born on January 23, 1939 in Moscow. In 1956-1961, he studied at the Faculty of Chemistry of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Already in 1966-1968 and 1970-1972, Kara-Murza was sent to work in Cuba. He gained fame in journalism thanks to his publications in the newspapers Pravda, Sovetskaya Rossiya and Tomorrow.

In addition, Kara-Murza has 50 articles on chemistry, history, as well as methodology of science, and science studies. Among his works are such books as "Problems of the organization of science", "Fundamentals of Science", "Technology of scientific research". In 1992, he became an employee of the Analytical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Problems of socio-economic and scientific and technological development, and in 2005, he became head of the sector of General Problems of Sustainable Development at the Russian Research Institute of Economics, Politics and Law in the Scientific and Technical field.

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