Moscow City Hall stops Andrei Sakharov 100th anniversary exhibition in Moscow from going ahead [Kommersant]

17 May 2015 Sergei Lukashevsky is director of the Sakharov Centre in Moscow and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Коммерсантъ] The Sakharov Centre…

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Vladimir Lukin on Andrei Sakharov: how freedom began in Russia

13 April 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Yury Kobaladze: Good evening. Welcome to all our radio listeners. […]  I welcome my guest Vladmir Lukin, deputy chair of…

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Boris Altshuler: Andrei Sakharov and our complicated present day, 31 years on from his death

14 December 2020 By Boris Altshuler, director of Right of the Child, a regional civil society organisation advancing the protection of children’s rights, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source:…

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Podcast No. 52. Simon & Sergei – with Boris Altshuler

This week our guest is Boris Lvovich Altshuler. Boris Altshuler is a physicist and human rights activist, a senior researcher at the theoretical physics department of the Lebedev Physical Institute…

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Boris Altshuler: On the 1 July vote – Topical Quotations from Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

26 June 2020 By Boris Altshuler, head of the NGO Right of the Child and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group One can only welcome the…

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Nadezhda Azhgikhina reviews ‘Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, and friends: Life was typical, tragic, and beautiful’

19 June 2020 By Nadezhda Azhgikhina Nadezhda Azhgikhina reviews the Russian-language publication: Boris Altshuler, Leonoid Litinsky (eds.), Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, and friends: Life was typical, tragic, and beautiful, AST,…

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