Moscow, 21 May 2026 by Boris Altshuler [This text was originally published in Russian in Novaya gazeta - Kazakhstan] In connection with today's (21 May) 105th anniversary of the birth…
14 December 2024 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov died in Moscow 35 years ago on the evening of the 14th December 1989, at the age of 68.…
17 December 2024 by Ed Glezin Source: Facebook Elena Bonner on why the political strike called by A.D. Sakharov for 11 December 1989 was undermined: “...On 1 December 1989, at…
24 June 2024 Our disputes today chime resonantly with what Soviet dissidents were saying then Source: Facebook As I have already recounted, in the punishment cell I was given a…
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…
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…
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…
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,'…
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…
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…
