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The Andrei Sakharov Excellence Program, launched by the ASF in 2023 at Tel Aviv University’s Physics Department, continues to cultivate academic distinction among the university’s most talented undergraduate and graduate ...

Ekaterina Yurievna Shikhanovich, a driving force behind the Sakharov Archive — the first private archive in modern Russia — passed away on August 21st, after a brief hospitalization at one of Moscow’s leading hospitals. Her father, Yuri ...

On Monday, a court in Pskov — a northwestern Russian city near the Estonian border — convicted Lev Shlosberg, deputy chairman of Yabloko, Russia’s only registered opposition party still openly opposing the war. He was sentenced ...

Yuri Rost — legendary journalist, writer, photographer, and traveler — once received an unusual greeting from a colleague at Literaturnaya Gazeta in late December 1986: “You of all people will certainly be at the Yaroslavl ...

Peter Shapiro, a prolific Russian-​American sculptor, created two bronze portraits of Andrei Sakharov. The first was cast in 1989, the year Sakharov died. The second, only subtly different, was unveiled in ...

The Russian word поступок — rendered here as “act of conscience” — carries a weight that resists easy translation. It means not merely an action, but a deliberate, principled deed taken at personal cost; a choice that ...

A Striking Vintage Political Poster Honneur aux Sakharov — Honour to the Sakharovs This poster is an artifact from the international campaign demanding an end to the persecution of Andrei Sakharov, who ...

The Andrej Sacharovbrug (Andrei Sakharov Bridge) is a major box girder road bridge in the Netherlands that crosses the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine) river. Located in the city of Arnhem, it connects ...

In memoriam: Liza Semyonov (November 20, 1955 – June 4, 2026) In early January 1982, Liza and her husband Alexey Semyonov began their honeymoon amid freezing temperatures in Butte, Montana. The unorthodox ...

On the Other Side of the Window Documentary by Dmitry Zavilgelsky and Boris Altshuler “Andrei Dmitrievich, you were at the top floor of power in the Soviet Union,” a journalist suggested to Sakharov ...

In the Shadow of Andrei Sakharov A 1991 Documentary by Sherry Jones “He had a duty to live longer” — so says one of the people interviewed in this film, produced by the American documentary-​maker ...