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Catherine Ann "Cathy" Fitzpatrick (born 1956), also known under her virtual worlds pseudonym "Prokofy Neva"^[1]^[2], is an American human rights activist, Russian-English translator, journalist, blogger on human rights issues, Russia and virtual worlds, anti-communist, and critic of the open source movement. She is based in New York.

She has worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, where she was the editor of the weekly radio magazine "(Un)Civil Societies" from 2003^[3]^[4] She has been the Executive Director of the International League for Human Rights^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8], the program director for the former Soviet countries^[9], as well as the UN representative of the International League for Human Rights.^[10]

In the 1990s, she worked for the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Soros Foundation (Open Society Institute), the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Ford Foundation in Moscow. She was research director for what is now Human Rights Watch' European and Central Asian Division from 1981 to 1990.

She studied at the University of Toronto, St. Michael's College and Leningrad State University, where she graduated in 1979.

Fitzpatrick lectures on civil society, political movements and humanitarian issues in Eurasia. She is a strong critic of human rights abuses in the former Soviet Union, and of communism, which she likens to fascism^{[citation needed]}. She is currently a freelance writer and translator specializing in human rights issues in the former Soviet Union^[11].

Catherine Fitzpatrick has also been involved with virtual worlds for several years. She was a resident of the city of Alphaville in The Sims Online, under the avatar name "Dyerbrook". Since 2004, she has been a resident of Second Life, under the avatar name "Prokofy Neva". She has also been a journalist for The Alphaville Herald, a blogger on virtual worlds (particularly Second Life), and an outspoken critic of Linden Lab, the company that runs Second Life, and was the Alphaville Herald "Avatar of the Year" in 2005. Fitzpatrick owns a large number of simulators in Second Life and rents out virtual land^[12]^[13]^[14] As a blogger on virtual worlds, she is strongly critical of the open source movement, which she describes as "technocommunism"^[15]. Fitzpatrick was also a strong critic of the Second Life presence of Woodbury University, a California university maintaining a virtual campus in Second Life, and whose students and professors she accused of being "griefers"^[16].

Publications

Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, Moscow's independent peace movement, U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee, 1982
Mary Jane Camejo & Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, Violations of the Helsinki accords, Yugoslavia, Helsinki Watch report, Human Rights Watch, 1986, ISBN 0938579770, ISBN 9780938579779
Ludmila Alekseeva & Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, Nyeformaly: Civil society in the USSR, Helsinki Watch report, 1990, ISBN 092969242X, ISBN 9780929692425
Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, USSR: human rights under glasnost, Human Rights Watch, 1989
Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, Psychiatric Abuse in the Soviet Union, Human Rights Watch, 1990, ISBN 1564320065, ISBN 9781564320063

Translations

Tatyana Mamonova (ed.), Women and Russia : feminist writings from the Soviet Union, Beacon Press, 1984, trans. by Rebecca Park and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, ISBN 0807067091, ISBN 978-0807067093
Leo Timofeyev, Russia's Secret Rulers, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, trans. by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
Alexander Yakovlev, The Fate of Marxism in Russia, Yale University Press, 1993, trans. by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
Evgeniia Alats, The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994, trans. by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
Boris Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia, Random House, 1994, trans. by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
Michael Scammell (ed.), The Solzhenitsyn Files, IL Edition Q, 1995, trans. by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
The unknown Lenin, Yale University Press, 1996, trans. by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, ISBN 0300069197, ISBN 9780300069198
First person: an astonishingly frank self-portrait by Russia's president, PublicAffairs, 2000, trans. by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, ISBN 1586480189, ISBN 9781586480189

References

[1] ttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/technology/19virtual.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

[2] ttp://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=3

[3] ttp://www.rferl.org/content/article/1054145.html

[4] ttp://www.fastcompany.com/social/2005/expert-board.html

[5] ttp://www.rferl.org/content/article/1093676.html

[6] ttp://www.rferl.org/content/article/1098497.html

[7] ttp://www.rferl.org/content/article/1092878.html

[8] ttp://www.ilhr.org/ilhr/reports/proxy/index.html

[9] ttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/DK26Ag01.html

[10] ttp://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2008survey/internet_time_work_leisure_2020.xhtml

[11] ttp://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav100709c.shtml

[12] ttp://alphavilleherald.com/2006/01/avatar_of_the_y-3.html

[13] ttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/technology/19virtual.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

[14] ttp://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=3

[15] ttp://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2010/04/the-real-red-scare.html

[16] ttp://alphavilleherald.com/2007/04/griefer_u.html

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 She studied at the [[University of Toronto]], [[St. Michael's College]] and [[Leningrad State University]], where she graduated in 1979.
-Fitzpatrick lectures on civil society, political movements and humanitarian issues in Eurasia. She is a strong critic of human rights abuses in the former Soviet Union, and of communism, which whe likens to fascism. She also translates books from Russian. She is currently a freelance writer and translator specializing in human rights issues in the former Soviet Union<ref>http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav100709c.shtml</ref>.
+Fitzpatrick lectures on civil society, political movements and humanitarian issues in Eurasia. She is a strong critic of human rights abuses in the former Soviet Union, and of communism, which she likens to fascism{{cn}}. She is currently a freelance writer and translator specializing in human rights issues in the former Soviet Union<ref>http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav100709c.shtml</ref>.
 Catherine Fitzpatrick has also been involved with [[virtual world]]s for several years. She was a resident of the city of Alphaville in [[The Sims Online]], under the avatar name "Dyerbrook". Since 2004, she has been a resident of [[Second Life]], under the avatar name "Prokofy Neva". She has also been a journalist for ''[[The Alphaville Herald]]'', a blogger on virtual worlds (particularly Second Life), and an outspoken critic of [[Linden Lab]], the company that runs Second Life, and was the Alphaville Herald "Avatar of the Year" in 2005. Fitzpatrick owns a large number of simulators in Second Life and rents out virtual land<ref>http://alphavilleherald.com/2006/01/avatar_of_the_y-3.html</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/technology/19virtual.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1</ref><ref>http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons?currentPage=3</ref> As a blogger on virtual worlds, she is strongly critical of the [[open source]] movement, which she describes as "technocommunism"<ref>http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2010/04/the-real-red-scare.html</ref>. Fitzpatrick was also a strong critic of the Second Life presence of [[Woodbury University]], a California university maintaining a virtual campus in Second Life, and whose students and professors she accused of being "griefers"<ref>http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/04/griefer_u.html</ref>.