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His 85th was marked by a large gathering in Moscow, organised by the now closed Sakharov Center. Here are two videos from this gathering. Other materials from the Sakharov May Freedom Festival ...

In 2024, Gulag History Museum was forced to close, with the authorities citing fire risks. The “fire safety” pretext was transparently false. High-​ranking Kremlin officials and the FSB were behind ...

In memoriam: Nina M Litvinova (August 9, 1945 – May 12, 2026) a prominent ocean researcher and lifelong dissident My angel, my sister Nina, is gone. This was one short sentence, in which Pavel ...

The ASF warmly welcomes the release by the Belarusian regime of Andrzej Poczobut, journalist and laureate of the Sakharov Prize. Poczobut is a journalist, essayist, blogger, and activist from Belarus’s Polish minority — and, ...

The literary scholar from Siberia will be based at Ruhr University Bochum from May to October, where she will research the cultural reckoning with the ecological consequences of Russia’s war ...

On 26 April 1986, the Unit 4 RBMK reactor at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl went out of control during a planned test at low power, leading to an explosion and ...

“Many portraits of Israeli prime ministers have decorated the walls of my office,” says prominent Israeli politician and activist Natan Sharansky. “But there is one constant: a portrait of Andrei Sakharov ...

Once called ‘a marathon runner for human rights’, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee was founded in 1977 to monitor compliance with the Helsinki Accords. The Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award, established in 1980 ...

Legislative elections were held in the Soviet Union on 26 March 1989 to elect members of the Congress of People’s Deputies (CPD), with run-​offs continuing through May. They were the ...

Moscow, the Russian capital where Andrei Sakharov was born, raised, and spent most of his adult life, remains a city without a public monument to one of its world-​renowned citizens (one statue ...

“Lavrentiy Pavlovich, why are we always in the position of catching up? Why can’t we move ahead ourselves instead of copying Western models?” This was a daring question that Andrei Sakharov posed ...