Ed Glezin: Elena Bonner on why the political strike called by A.D. Sakharov for 11 December 1989 was undermined

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…

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Lev Shlosberg: He Chose Freedom – a word of thanks to Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev on the day of his birth

2 March 2023 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Novaya gazeta Mikhail Gorbachev, the first president of the USSR, was born on 2 March. This particular date has become a major event…

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Lev Ponomarev on Boris Yeltsin: The Hero Who Was Deleted from History

1 February 2023 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender Source: Ekho Moskvy Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Today is the birth date of Boris Yeltsin, democratic Russia’s…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Gorbachev as a Litmus Test for Russian Liberalism

3 September 2022  by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Mikhail Gorbachev’s death can be looked on as a chemically pure experiment for determining the current state of mind among Russian liberals.…

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On the death of Mikhail Gorbachev – Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights

Lev Ponomarev Boris Altshuler Svetlana Astrakhantseva Valery Borshchev 1 September 2022 Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights Gorbachev, Sakharov and our…

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