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Maria Baronova is a Russian chemist who has worked as a sales manager of lab equipment, journalist, and political spokesperson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Speaker - Maria Baronova )〕 She is famous for being an activist of the opposition to President Vladimir Putin and, in particular, for having organized the Bolotnaya Square protests on May 6, 2012. Several newspapers, including ''The New Republic'' and ''Rolling Stone magazine'', have praised her activist work, noting her fortitude in supporting Russia's opposition movement. ''Reuters'' journalist Lucian Kim described her as embodying “the contradictions of Russians who love their country, warts and all, and seek to reconcile it with the rest of the world.” ==Early life and education== Baronova (née Tchebotareva) describes herself as having been born in “Orwell's year,” 1984. The Hez family consisted mostly of politically inactive members who never partook in activism. She was raised by her mother, who was “a theoretical physicist turned actuary.” During the economic downturn of the 1990s, Baronova's mother was destitute. She told ''Rolling Stone'' that her family began growing its own vegetables at their grandparents' home and stored them for winter.〔 Her mother died of breast cancer when Baronova was 18, and six months later Baronova, who at the time was studying chemistry at Moscow University, took a job selling laboratory equipment. Later she worked as a sales manager for a chemical distributor.〔 At age 20, Baronova married and had a son,〔 Sasha. The couple divorced after five years of marriage. Baronova wanted to go to Oxford to study educational psychology, but her ex-husband would not let her take their son out of the country.〔 For a time, she was “a glamorous Moscow socialite.”〔 Until the mid 2000s, she was a staunch supporter of Putin.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maria Baronova」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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