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Ivan Nikolaevich Sakharov (1860-​1918) was born on 9 October 1860, in a family that counted generations of Russian priests. He spent his early years in the village of Vyezdnoye, in the Arzamas ...

Many people know of an avenue in central Moscow called “Prospect of Academician Sakharov.” The avenue, named after Andrei Sakharov soon after his death, served as a gathering place of opposition ...

A diplomatic agreement among 35 participating countries, the Helsinki Accords were signed half a century ago on August 1, 1975, as part of a broader effort to ease tensions between the Soviet ...

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) in Milan will hold a conference on November 3-​5, 2025, dedicated to the life of Anatoly Marchenko, a Soviet dissident, who ...

A year ago, on July 27, 2024, Pavel Kushnir died in detention in Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the Jewish autonomy on the Russian-​Chinese border. A thirty-​nine year old graduate of ...

In 1984 when Andrei Sakharov went on a hunger strike in exile in Gorky he was forcibly hospitalized with no opportunity to communicate even with his wife. His family, colleagues and ...

The Andrei Sakharov Excellence in Physics program at Tel Aviv University, initiated and funded by the Andrei Sakharov Foundation with the generous support of our donors, is in its second ...

Fifty-​seven years ago today, on 22 July 1968, Sakharov’s “Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom” sent waves around the world. The New York Times chose to publish the ...

July 8th had been a busy day for FSB, the Russian security service, as they carried searches in apartments of journalists and human rights activists in a dozen of locations in diffirent ...

Happy birthday, dear Pavel! Pavel Litvinov, a living legend of the Soviet dissident movement, turned 85 on July 6th. On August 25, 1968, Pavel was one of eight brave souls who held a public protest ...

Located on the Volga-​river city of Ulyanovsk (a birthplace of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state), a local museum, mostly dedicated to Lenin, talks about its citizens fighting the ...