A Soviet dissident and writer Vladimir Bukovsky died aged 76, TASS reported. https://tass.com/society/1085546

According to Bukovsky Center, "he died of cardiac arrest in Addenbrookes Hospital, in Cambridge, England at 9:46 PM Greenwich Time on 27 October, 2019.”

In 1972, Bukovsky was sentenced to two years in prison and five years in exile for "anti-Soviet activism."