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worked several years for the Countryside Alliance, died of multiple organ failure
 
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A prolific writer and translator, Szamuely had articles published in literary and political journals, contributed to ''The Reader's Companion to Twentieth Century Writers'', and was an interviewer and scriptwriter for the [[BBC News Russian|BBC Russian Service]]. She was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies from 1997 to 2017. For many years Szamuely was a researcher and political brief writer in the [[House of Lords]], working with peers on EU issues regarding Russia and Turkey. She was a campaigner for release of political prisoners in the [[Soviet Union]], including the poet Nizametdin Akhmetov, whose work she translated.<ref name=telegraph-obit/><ref name=times-obit/><ref name="oxforddnb.com"/> In later years she worked several years for the [[Countryside Alliance]] on local food campaigns.<ref name=telegraph-obit/><ref name=times-obit/>
 
She was a founder member of the [[Anti-Federalist League]], the forerunner to the [[UK Independence Party]] (Ukip). She was expelled from Ukip in 1993, soon after it was founded;, [[Nigel Farage]] later writing this was "a sore loss to the party". She was head of research for the [[Bruges Group (United Kingdom)|Bruges Group]] from 2002.<ref name=telegraph-obit/>
 
==Personal life==
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[[Category:Alumni of the University of Leeds]]
[[Category:British Eurosceptics]]
[[Category:British people of Hungarian-Jewish descent]]
[[Category:British people of Russian descent]]
[[Category:People from Moscow]]