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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 ...

Vernissage on November 19th, 2025, at 6-​​9 PM at The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station in London, UK, November 19-​22. Fifteen artists, many of whom are recent immigrants from Russia, ...

Berlin, November 21-​22 Organized by “Strana i Mir” in partnership with Radio Sakharov https://russianrealities2025.sakharov.world/ Why has Trump’s quest for peace in Ukraine not succeeded? Will Putin wage war forever? How lasting will be the ...

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 ...