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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

If anyone deserves more than one biography then surely that honour should go to Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), the physicist who produced the most powerful explosion in the history of the world and 14 ...

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 ...