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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 ...

On the 105th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov’s birth, his legacy was quietly marked across Russia. Book exhibitions dedicated to his life opened in Moscow’s Natural Sciences Library and in regional ...

His 85th was marked by a large gathering in Moscow, organised by the now closed Sakharov Center. Here are two videos from this gathering. Other materials from the Sakharov May Freedom Festival ...

In 2024, Gulag History Museum was forced to close, with the authorities citing fire risks. The “fire safety” pretext was transparently false. High-​ranking Kremlin officials and the FSB were behind ...

In memoriam: Nina M Litvinova (August 9, 1945 – May 12, 2026) a prominent ocean researcher and lifelong dissident My angel, my sister Nina, is gone. This was one short sentence, in which Pavel ...

The ASF warmly welcomes the release by the Belarusian regime of Andrzej Poczobut, journalist and laureate of the Sakharov Prize. Poczobut is a journalist, essayist, blogger, and activist from Belarus’s Polish minority — and, ...