In 1975, Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident and human rights campaigner, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
It was a mixed crowd that shuffled through snow to Sakharov Avenue named after a Soviet-era dissident on December 24th.
Into his films, as familiar as friends, walk famous names: Leonard Bernstein, Norman Mailer, Andrei Sakharov, Igor Stravinsky.
He won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize last year, and has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
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In 2005, the group was awarded the Sakharov prize by the European Parliament.
Ivan was designed by a group of Soviet physicists lead by Igor Kurchatov and Noble prize winner Andrey Sakharov.
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The accusation concerned a sum of 7, 728.4 euros awarded by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee as part of its Andrei Sakharov Freedom prize.
The award is named for Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and is awarded to those who work to promote human rights and democracy.
The Yeltsin government recently incarcerated, in a manner reminiscent of the communists' repression of Andrei Sakharov and other dissidents, a scientist -- Prof.
Mrs Zana became a high-profile dissident when she was awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Peace Prize in 1995 - a year after her conviction in Turkey.
Long ago, Andrei Sakharov taught me that a society that does not respect the rights of its own citizens will never respect the rights of its neighbors.
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The United States should not undermine or otherwise discredit courageous advocates of genuine reform like Andrei Sakharov by demanding less far-reaching changes in the Soviet system than they are.
For his devotion, he ended up in the secret city of Sarov the Soviet Los Alamos where he worked on developing nuclear weapons with the physicist (and later dissident) Andrei Sakharov.
The subsequent expropriation of Yukos by the bureaucrats has turned Mr Khodorkovsky into a symbol of property rights, just as Andrei Sakharov became a symbol of human rights in the Soviet Union.
From Andrei Sakharov to Senator Bill Bradley, we are being warned of what lies ahead if we allow Gorbachev to set the agenda on Western economic and financial assistance to the communist economies.
Kurchatov died in 1960, but Sakharov live through all the different design phases of the H bomb until it was brought down to 26.5 tons and its explosive power was reduced by half.
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But U.S. intelligence has confirmed reports from courageous Sakharov-style Russian scientists like Vil Mirzayanov who claim, based on first-hand involvement, that Moscow is still developing and manufacturing the most deadly chemical agents known to man.
Similarly, the upcoming generation of American politicians will not have spent their formative years goggling at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, or feeling their spirits soar at the courage and triumph of dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov.
Boris Berezovsky, another magnate currently living abroad for fear of arrest at home, has donated generously to the Sakharov House in Moscow, one of the few groups trying to help Russia come to terms with its totalitarian past.
She won the trust of such giants of dissidence as Vaclav Havel (now Czech president), Andrei Sakharov, Natan Sharansky (now an Israeli politician) and Larisa Bogoraz, whose husband Anatoly Marchenko died on hunger strike in the Soviet Union.
Elena Bonner, the widow of Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov and heroic champion of personal freedoms in the Soviet Union in her own right, has recently issued repeated warnings to the West of what is in the offing in the USSR.
Three other Nobel peace laureates were also unable to attend their ceremonies due to political reasons -- human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi, Polish trade union leader Lech Walesa, and Russian Cold War dissident Andrei Sakharov -- but spouses or other relatives were able to accept the awards on their behalf.
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