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...Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies plans to initiate a fellowship and a human rights program in conjunction with the Andrei Sakharov Archives that have found a new home at Harvard...
While the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s claim to fame is arguably as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Sakharov later gained notoriety for his political dissidence against communism...
Rubenstein also said that Sakharov’s step-daughter Tatiana Yankelevich, who is also assistant director of the Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center at Brandeis, would be working on the related programming and symposiums...
...know that there were financial issues at Brandeis that necessitated finding a new institutional home for the archives,” wrote Executive Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Carol R. Saivetz, who sits on the advisory board for the Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center at Brandeis and who is also a research associate at the Davis Center...
...currently lead in opinion polls. Courting the E.U. TURKEY The appeals court in Ankara freed four former Kurdish M.P.s, jailed for 15 years in 1994 on charges of collaborating with separatist rebels. Among the four - who face retrial in July - was Leyla Zana, winner of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize. Brussels had warned Turkey that the M.P.'s detention jeopardized its chances of joining the E.U., whose leaders will decide in December whether to open accession negotiations with Ankara . Ultimately, an O.K. IRAQ The Kurdish parliament in northern Iraq endorsed the U.N. resolution on Iraq 's interim government, despite...