Andrei Sakharov Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/andrei-sakharov/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:05:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Andrei Sakharov Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/andrei-sakharov/ 32 32 59910430 Prominent Russian human rights defender Boris Altshuler, assistant of Andrei Sakharov, appeals to the leadership of Russian Federation to stop the war with Ukraine. https://concernedscientists.org/2022/03/prominent-russian-human-rights-defender-boris-altshuler-assistant-of-andrei-sakharov-appeals-to-the-leadership-of-russian-federation-to-stop-the-war-with-ukraine/ Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:26:36 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=9495 Please stop the humanitarian catastrophe. Ceasefire as a precondition for successful peace talks. The right to life is among the fundamental human rights. The 10-day-long special operation of the Russian army in Ukraine led to the violation of this right on a massive scale. Russian and Ukrainian servicemen are dying, civilians are dying, including children, […]

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]]> 9495 The Committee of Concerned Scientists deplores the politically motivated decision of the Russian court to liquidate Memorial — the leading human rights watchdog founded by Russia’s most prominent human rights advocate, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, physicist Andrei Sakharov. https://concernedscientists.org/2022/01/the-committee-of-concerned-scientists-deplores-the-politically-motivated-decision-of-the-russian-court-to-liquidate-memorial-the-leading-human-rights-watchdog-founded-by-russias-mos/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:06:18 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=9426 The post The Committee of Concerned Scientists deplores the politically motivated decision of the Russian court to liquidate Memorial — the leading human rights watchdog founded by Russia’s most prominent human rights advocate, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, physicist Andrei Sakharov. appeared first on Committee of Concerned Scientists.

]]> 9426 Russia forces Memorial human rights groups to close. https://concernedscientists.org/2021/11/russia-forces-memorial-human-rights-groups-to-close/ Mon, 22 Nov 2021 03:21:37 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=9382 Russian human rights group International Memorial and its sister organization Human Rights Centre Memorial are being forced to close by Russian prosecutors for supposedly not labeling themselves “foreign agents”. They were founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and have been doing important work on preserving Russian historic documents and monitoring violations of human […]

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]]> 9382 Joel Lebowitz’ Remembrances of Andrei Sakharov, December 27, 1978 https://concernedscientists.org/2021/07/joel-lebowitz-remembrances-of-andrei-sakharov-december-27-1978/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:07:07 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=9167 Powered By EmbedPress

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]]> 9167 Andrei Sakharov’s 100th Anniversary: Boris Altshuler, Human Rights Activist and Former Political Dissident, Who Worked Closely with Sakharov, Shares His Memories (From Altshuler’s Article): https://concernedscientists.org/2021/05/andrei-sakharovs-100-anniversary-boris-altshuler-human-rights-activist-and-former-ppolitical-dissident-who-worked-closely-with-sakharov-shares-his-memories-from-altshulers-artic/ Sun, 23 May 2021 21:47:58 +0000 https://concernedscientists.org/?p=9058 The historic achievement of the Soviet human rights movement of the 1970’s is that it managed to turn the attention of the world’s Big Politics to the suffering of individuals. The role of Andrei Sakharov was crucial in this. It was not by chance that in his Nobel Lecture (1975) he listed 127 names of […]

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