On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over ...

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, prohibited from attending the Nobel ceremony in Oslo, secretly passed his acceptance speech to a Norwegian diplomat in Moscow. The speech, read by his wife, ...

The mother of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah was taken to hospital on Monday night as she neared the ...

ANDREI SAKHAROV was a Soviet nuclear physicist and dissident and the winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the author of Alarm and Hope and Collected Scientific Works.

The leader is also haunted by history -after all, it was the farewell of Nobel-prize-winning physicist Andrei Sakharov in 1989, which helped bring down the Soviet Union. It is understood both ...

Andrei Sakharov, a Soviet physicist, conceived of the 100-megaton weapon. He ultimately reduced its yield to a lower (though still devastating) 50 megatons. Even with the reduced yield ...

Source: Wikipedia Mikhail Gorbachev’s decision to free Andrei Sakharov, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and prominent dissident, marked a significant step in the Soviet Union’s move toward ...

In 1986, political dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, were allowed to return to Moscow after seven years of internal exile. In 1989, Romanian President ...