23 January 2023
14 December 2022
Sakharov Prize 2022: Parliament honours the Ukrainian People
The ASF congratulates this year’s recipients of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Freedom of Thought Prize. This is one of the most significant and prestigious human rights awards, which honours the activists and serves to highlight ...
10 December 2022
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureates honoured at the ceremony in Oslo, Norway, on December 10, 2022
The ASF wishes to congratulate this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureates and wish them further success in their noble endeavours.
Natalia Pinchuk, the wife of imprisoned Ales Bialiatski, Yan Rachinsky, chairman of Memorial and Oleksandra ...
29 September 2022
Yuri Fedorov died Sept 27, 2022.
In Memoriam of Yuri Fedorov.
Yuri Fedorov, 79, of New York, passed away September 27, 2022, after a long battle with lupus. An outstanding human being, Yuri was also a well-known Soviet dissident and a former political ...
31 August 2022
In Memoriam of Mikhail Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022)
On August 30, 2022, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the first (and last) President of the USSR, passed away at the age of 91. On behalf of the family of Andrei Sakharov ...
09 August 2022
Today the ASF remembers an outstanding person and a dear friend to many of us, Sergei Adamovich Kovalev:
Sergei Kovalev (2.03.1930 – 9.08.2021)
Human rights activist, biologist, board member of International Memorial (banned in Russia since January 2022).
August 9 marks a year without one of Russia’s greatest moral authorities. Sergei Kovalev, ...
08 August 2022
The book “Sakharov, a citizen of the universe”. Today to mark a year since Sergei Kovalev’s passing, we are publishing one of the book’s entries, written by him
The ASF supported a publication of a new volume of memoirs about Andrei Sakharov, which includes the articles by over 70 colleagues and friends. This book, entitled “Sakharov, a citizen of the universe”, ...
06 April 2022
Concert in honor of Andrei Sakharov at Carnegie Hall, 21 May 2023
The Carnegie Hall published their new season program, which includes a concert organized by the ASF in honor of Andrei Sakharov.
“An astonishing lineup of internationally renowned musicians comes together to celebrate ...
31 March 2022
“Scientist, dissident, human rights activist”
The exhibition has been seen by tens of thousands of people live, while hundreds of thousands of people were able to see it online.
European Parliament Multimedia Centre (europa.eu)
31 December 2021
The Financial Times publishes interview with Marina Sakharov-Liberman and Tatiana Bonner Yankelevich
The Financial Times publishes Simon Kuper’s interview with Marina Sakharov-Liberman and Tatiana Bonner Yankelevich.
15 December 2021
The award-winning film “Sakharov Case” premiered on 21 May 2021 on the Channel One of the Russian TV
Centennial documentary “The Sakharov Case”
(Russian with the English subtitles)
Director: Elena Yakovich
The ASF supported the production of this film.
The award-winning film “Sakharov Case” premiered on 21 May 2021 on the Channel One ...
