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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 ...

In November 2024, Museum of the History of GULAG was suddenly closed, allegedly, for fire safety violations, which were labelled as “strange” by many Muscovites who believed that this was ...

Upon graduating from a medical school where he earned his M.D. qualifications as a psychiatrist, Gluzman became the first Soviet medic to openly oppose the use of psychiatry for political purposes. In ...

Admissions for the 12th Course Open Until 1 March 2026 Join thousands of graduates of the online human rights defence school named after Elena Bonner. The course is completely free for successful ...

The Nobel Prize Museum jointly with a journalist Anna Narinskaya curated an exhibit, which will open in Stockholm on February 6th and will be on display till March 29th. A unique art piece ...

Since 2006, the American Physical Society awards a biennial Sakharov Prize so named in recognition of courageous and effective work of the Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov furthering human rights and peaceful ...

As this year draws to a close, we extend our sincere gratitude for your continued commitment to the values of Andrei Sakharov. His dedication to peace, human dignity, and scientific progress ...