Boris Altshuler: Andrei Sakharov’s lessons for the present and future

12 June 2023 Speech at the roundtable 'Andrei Sakharov and the World Today', Andrei Sakharov Institute, Paris, 12 June 2023 [Edited by Boris Alshuler for publication] by Boris Altshuler, member…

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Elena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov in 1979. Photo: HRW

Boris Altshuler: On the centenary of Yelena Georgievna Bonner’s birth

15 February 2023 by Boris Altshuler, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group “Anyone who does not regret the breakup of the USSR has no heart,  and anyone who thinks we…

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Statement on the Seizure of the Premises of the Sakharov Centre

Sergei Lukashevsky: Director of the Sakharov Centre 26 January 2023 Statement by the Public Commission for the Preservation of the Legacy of Academician Sakharov (Sakharov Centre) Source: Sakharov Centre [also…

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Boris Altshuler: Speeches dedicated to Andrei Sakharov in the context of the current tragic situation

21 December 2022 by Boris Altshuler, physicist, human rights defender and member Moscow Helsinki Group. Poems by Larisa Miller On December 16, 2022, an event entitled, 'Sakharov. Courage of Thought,'…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Robert van Voren on Andrei Sakharov, human rights & Russia’s war against Ukraine

Mary Page talks with Robert van Voren, chief executive of Human Rights in Mental Health - Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry (FGIP) and a Sovietologist by education. He is currently…

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Aleksandr Cherkasov: On what made Sakharov become a human rights defender

22 May 2022 by Aleksandr Cherkasov, former chair of the board of Memorial Human Rights Centre, which was closed down by the authorities. The author expresses his thanks to Ilya…

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Sergei Lukashevsky: Let’s keep hope alive on Sakharov’s birthday, and in the days to come

21 May 2022 by Sergei Lukashevsky is director of the Sakharov Centre. Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Фейсбук] Andrei Sakharov was born on 21 May 1921 Today is May 21,…

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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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