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...years ago, Grand Duke Ivan III, the founder of the Russian state, silenced the special bell that summoned the Novgorod veche, but its notes have sounded, however faintly, throughout Russian history. The same nation that bowed down to Joseph Stalin also produced fearless spokesmen for freedom like Andrei Sakharov. Today, for the first time, democracy is of concern to a large number of people, not just a small group of dissidents. Long used to viewing freedom as a gift to be bestowed from on high, ordinary citizens have begun to make their own decisions, decide their own fates. Many, perhaps...
...pregnant and had a daughter. Natalya Evdokimova is now 50, and she became a doctor too. She went through a particularly difficult experience in the waning years of Soviet power. In 1984 she was assigned as the personal physician to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov. He and his wife Yelena Bonner were closely watched by the secret police. "[KGB agents] tried to accuse us of diagnosing Sakharov's condition as being more serious than it really was, or of trying to give him information and news," she says. "We were treated very badly. I have...
Building on a theory by Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov, Walsworth, physicist Eduardo R. Oteiza and co-workers have been working on detecting an electric dipole of xenon to gain insight into the laws governing the formation of the universe...
...been nominated for the Andrei Sakharov Award of $100,000, with which, if she had received it, she planned to open a human rights office in Germany. Both she and Gert Bastian had many projects for the future and were growing equally distressed at the tide of right-wing activism and violence in Germany, about which Gert had just published a very angry article...
...more radical deputies and learn from them about issues he had never been familiar with, like economic privatization and the Baltics' case for independence. "Despite his age, he is teachable," says Galina Starovoitova, a senior Soviet and Russian national legislator and a longtime ally of the late Andrei Sakharov. "He has a skill at listening to people...