Sakharov smuggled Nobel Prize speech to Oslo via embassy ploy, papers reveal 50 years on
On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over ...
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The Secret Nobel Mission: Sakharov's Defiant Speech
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, ...
Jailed Egyptian-British dissident's hunger-striking mother hospitalised
The mother of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah was taken to hospital on Monday night as she neared the ...
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I worked alongside former US President Jimmy Carter for 30 years. Here's what he was like as a mentor.
Within the Soviet Union, he navigated a nuclear-arms reduction while standing with dissidents, sending a hand-written letter of support to embattled physicist Andrei Sakharov. He threatened Latin ...
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Andrei Sakharov
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.
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A Release From Exile To An Iconic Movie Release — On This Day In History December 19
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 ...