09 March 2025
Ivan Pavlov: When the laws do not work, legal assistance is palliative. But the importance of palliatives should not be underestimated
Founded in December 2021 by Ivan Pavlov, a prominent lawyer, First Department is a human rights project with a special focus on closed court hearings and the use of criminal cases against political ...
09 March 2025
The Andrei Sakharov Excellence in Physics at Tel Aviv University
Furthering scientific legacy of Dr Andrei Sakharov, the Andrei Sakharov Foundation launched the above-named program at School of Physics and Astronomy of Tel Aviv University. Its aim is to recognize ...
05 March 2025
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum, an award-winning American author and historian, published “Autocracy, Inc” in 2024. Drawing wide critical acclaim and recognized as a book of the year by the Economist, “Autocracy, Inc” warns ...
02 March 2025
Sergei Adamovich Kovalev (March 2, 1930 – August 9, 2021), a Soviet political prisoner and human rights activist
“A free Russia, without repression or arbitrary use of law” was Kovalev’s dream, to which he dedicated his entire life.
In the 1990s, at the time of the First Chechen War, ...
09 December 2024
Evgeny Velikhov (February 2, 1935 – December 5, 2024)
Evgeny Velikhov, who passed away just two months shy of his 90th birthday, was a great scientist and a good man. A physics graduate of Moscow State University, he spent most of his ...
10 November 2024
Felice Gaer (June 16, 1946 – November 9, 2024)
The Andrei Sakharov Foundation is deeply saddened with a profound and heartbreaking loss of Felice Gaer Baran (16 June 1946 – 9 November 2024), who was a friend, a mentor and a source of inspiration ...
01 September 2024
A new book “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause” by Benjamin Nathans
“The dissident movement contributed significantly to the hollowing out of the legitimacy of the Soviet regime, which in turn made the system exceptionally brittle”
From a new book, “To the Success of ...
12 May 2024
Jim Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024)
Photo: Alex Gerko and Jim Simons, at a gala in tribute of Andrei Sakharov, May 21, 2023. Carnegie Hall, New York
Jim Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024)
The Andrei ...
07 May 2024
Congratulations to the courageous Vladimir Kara-Murza
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a 42-year old Russian opposition politician and author, who has been imprisoned in Russia since April 2022, was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
The Pulitzer judges recognized Kara-Mura’s ...
02 May 2024
Opinion is not a crime
A criminal case against Sergey Lukashevsky, a former director of Sakharov Centre in Moscow, was initiated in Nizhny Novgorod. The first court hearing was scheduled for May 2, 2024. Lukashevsky is ...
25 May 2023
The Andrei Sakharov Foundation wishes to thank the following people and organizations for their help and support
The Andrei Sakharov Foundation wishes to thank the following people and organizations for their help and support:
Carnegie Hall:
Clive Gillinson
Nolan Robertson
Anna Weber
and all other highly professional members of the team — for doing ...
23 May 2023
The New York Classical Review published an article by David Wright about the Sakharov concert
Stars align to honor human-rights champion Sakharov at Carnegie
by David Wright
at New York Classical Review
What would it take to bring international stars such as violinists Gidon Kremer and Maxim Vengerov, ...
