Word: sakharov
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...politicians paid their predictable tributes, and ordinary citizens responded largely with indifference. Gorbachev, who is spending the New Year's holiday in Paris with his children and grandchildren, told the French press agency that Yeltsin should have resigned earlier. Human-rights activist Elena Bonner--Yeltsin nominated her husband Andrei Sakharov as TIME's Person of the Century--was scathing. "After eight years in the Kremlin, sadly, what has Boris Nikolayevich achieved? Nothing. He left Russia with a dangerous constitution that was made just for him, and now Putin will exploit it." Other former associates remembered Yeltsin warmly. Boris Nemtsov...