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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization – Accessible history of a new society
09 Feb 2026 12:16 GMT
… supermarkets and fancy cars. Soviet civilisation was falling behind … singer Vladimir Vysotsky, revered dissident Andrei Sakharov, the culture tzar Katrina … just a simple Soviet man.”
The Soviet Union was made … the centuries.
[ The Russia Anxiety: Astute look at …
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The Collapse That Created Today’s Russia
23 Jan 2026 22:47 GMT
… pattern. Liberal opposition activists Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner notably … totalitarian structures.” Meanwhile, Soviet pop megastar Alla Pugacheva … feel more like late Soviet Russia than is comfortable … letter to the newspaper Soviet Russia—in which she …
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How the Soviet Union got over Stalin – or thought it did
14 Jan 2026 06:11 GMT
… investigated the Soviet housing programme and Russia-West relations … – not Solzhenitsyn, but Andrei Sakharov, Roy Medvedev, or the … the irreconcilable working-class dissident Anatoly Marchenko, the “ … of internment for dissident intellectuals, rather than …
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Jailed Belarus, Georgia journalists win EU's top human rights prize
17 Dec 2025 00:01 GMT
… in 1988 and named after Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, is bestowed annually on individuals … to recognise their fight for human rights or democracy.
Contenders are nominated … Belarus's main ally, Russia, and the West.
Gazeta Wyborcza …
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Boris Nemtsov — the charismatic physicist who took on Putin
08 Jan 2026 06:34 GMT
… Many observers of post-Soviet Russia would disagree; it had … already a well-known dissident in the last days … where the nuclear physicist and anti-communist campaigner Andrei Sakharov had been exiled … Yeltsin became the leader of Russia, the two became close …
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How the West misjudged Russia’s dissidents and helped shape Putin’s rise as Soviet Union fell
05 Jan 2026 05:42 GMT
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[ In shift from political norms, Russia praises new US national security … ”. Andrei Sakharov’s journey from pro-Soviet nuclear scientist to exile as an anti-Soviet dissident … Mstislav Rostropovich’s journey from human-rights activist to Yeltsin supporter to …
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Epstein tried to cozy up to Russian officials, including Putin, documents show
08 Feb 2026 13:54 GMT
… responsible for organizing Russia’s largest economic conference … Russia, standing in front of Andrei Sakharov’s cottage. Sakharov worked on the Soviet … hydrogen bomb and later became known as a dissident … a closed center for nuclear research – and …
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The Dark Side of The Earth: How Russia broke up with the USSR
21 Dec 2025 16:59 GMT
… USSR to Russia, through the eyes of the people
Soviet leader … money.
We also learn how Andrei Sakharov (the man behind the hydrogen … mind about the efficacy of nuclear weapons, and actually shocks … gets him removed from the nuclear project he himself created.
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OPINION: The Courage to Speak Out: Russia’s New Sakharov
20 Dec 2025 18:57 GMT
… Soviet war films could not be made in Russia … member of the Presidential Human Rights Council, so no discrimination …
Before Sokurov, there was Andrei Sakharov. Sakharov’s death anniversary …
Both men – Sakharov, the physicist, and Sokurov, the filmmaker – …
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Ethnic Polish journalist imprisoned in Belarus awarded EU human rights prize
22 Oct 2025 15:22 GMT
… award in the field of human rights, alongside Mzia Amaglobeli, a … condemned by human rights groups.
Named after Soviet physicist and dissident human rights activist Andrei Sakharov, the EU … who have worked to defend human rights, freedom of expression and …