OSLO (Reuters) - On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, so his ...

MOSCOW — More than 12 years after Moscow’s City Council decided to erect a statue of Soviet dissident and Nobel peace laureate Andrei D. Sakharov, a city commission has finally given the green light ...

Last May 21 academician Andrei Sakharov, renowned as one of the developers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and later as a dissident and liberal critic of the Stalinist regime, would have celebrated his ...

Natan Sharansky, a former spokesman for Andrei Sakharov, spent nine years in the Soviet gulag for his human rights activities. His most recent book, written with Gil Troy, is “Never Alone: Prison, ...

Andrei Sakharov is best remembered today as one of the foremost human rights advocates of the 20th century, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his outspoken opposition to the Soviet Union's darkest ...

The usual narrative of the unraveling of the Soviet Union moves from the promising reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev to the dashed hopes of Boris Yeltsin to the authoritarian counterrevolution of Vladimir ...

In the final decades of the Soviet Union, each new leader inherited problems from his predecessors. One of the most troublesome was Andrei Sakharov. What could be done about the acclaimed physicist ...

Sakharov had forcefully condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the year before, and called for a boycott of the Moscow Olympics in an interview with the New York Times. No longer worried about ...

Andrei Sakharov once described Igor Kurchatov as a man whose most pronounced trait was his fascination with "grand" science. The physicist who headed the Soviet nuclear program from 1943 until his ...

Journalism never dies, no matter the circumstances; it endures a culture of intimidation, censorship, and the silencing of those who dare to dissent. Two imprisoned journalists, one in Belarus and the ...