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Together with Eldar Ryazanov, Yuri Shevchuk, Andrey Makarevich, Andrey Konchalovsky and others, she protested against Russian policy towards Ukraine. The actress has been personally blamed by her opponents for escalating the conflict ever since.Īkhedzhakova is a critic of the contemporary Russian politics and Vladimir Putin in particular.

It also led to a forceful liquidation of the Soviet model in Russia. As a result of the armed conflict, from 158 to 2000 people (mostly civilians) were killed and hundreds were injured.

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During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis she attended a live TV show where she gave a speech in support of Yeltsin's actions, encouraging the army to «protect us from the goddamn Constitution» and start storming the White House, or «the Communists will return». Her relatives include Murat Kazbekovich Akedzhak, Deputy Head of the Administration of Krasnodar Region, and George Akhedzhak, Honored Coach of the USSR.Īkhedzhakova became politically active when Boris Yeltsin came to power. In the 2000 film Old Hags, she played alongside her stepfather. In 1986, she played four main roles in the play Apartment Columbine, directed by Roman Viktyuk.Īs a film actress, Liya Akhedzhakova became widely known due to her roles in Eldar Ryazanov's films, including Tania in The Irony of Fate (1975), Verochka in Office Romance (1977) and Fima in Promised Heaven (1991). In 1977, she joined the Sovremennik Theatre. Her debut in this drama was awarded several prizes at international film festivals in Locarno, Switzerland and Varna, Bulgaria. Her first film appearance was in Ishchu cheloveka (1973) (Russian: Looking for a Man). In 1962, she graduated from Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts (GITIS). She first appeared on stage in 1961 at Moscow Youth Theatre. In 1956, she entered the Moscow Institute of Nonferrous Metals and Gold where she studied for eighteen months. In response, a rare drug was delivered to her family. At the age of 10, when her mother and aunt was suffering from tuberculosis, she wrote a letter to Joseph Stalin with a request for help. Her mother, Yuliya Alexandrovna Akhedzhakova (1916–1990), was also an actress at the same drama theatre. Her stepfather, Medzhid Salehovich Akhedzhakov (1914–2012), was a Circassian nobleman who served as the Principal Director of the National Theatre of the Republic of Adygea.

She grew up in a theatrical family in Maykop, Russian SFSR. Akhedzhakova was born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR.

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