22 May 2023
Post-concert gala dinner in support of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation
A post-concert gala dinner was held at Rohatyn Reception Room. Distinguished speakers, including Natan Sharansky, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Ian Shipsey, David Remnick and Arkady Ostrovsky, delivered wonderful tributes to Sakharov, ...
21 May 2023
Concert in honor of Andrei Sakharov
The sold-out concert in honor of Andrei Sakharov was held on Sakharov’s birthday, May 21st, at Carnegie Hall. It was a truly historic and extraordinary musical event, a fitting tribute to the ...
15 February 2023
February 15th, 2023 marks the centennial of the birth of Elena (Lusya) Bonner
Elena Bonner wrote, “My life was typical, tragic and wonderful,” perfectly capturing the attitudes of this remarkably courageous woman, who was drawn into human rights activism when her parents became victims of the ...
25 January 2023
ASF is declared “undesirable” organization
On January 23, 2023 the Russian authorities declared The Andrei Sakharov Foundation an “undesirable organization”. We regret this sudden antagonistic action of the Russian Federation’s Office of Prosecutor General, which ...
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”, ...
