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The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
06 Feb 2025 20:16 GMT
… sign a letter condemning Andrei Sakharov, a leading nuclear physicist turned human-rights defender, and wrote … . In the nineteen-fifties, some Soviet astrobotanists argued that dialectical materialism …
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Jimmy Carter Deserves More Credit for Refocusing Foreign Policy on Human Rights
09 Jan 2025 18:13 GMT
… nuclear and conventional armaments of the United States and the Soviet … religious faith: René Cassin (1968), Andrei Sakharov (1975), Mother Teresa (1979), Lech … Sakharov, the dissident Soviet scientist. Carter wrote back that “human rights is a central …
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Jimmy Carter’s Enduring Legacy On Human Rights
06 Jan 2025 18:27 GMT
… , Carter underscored the importance human rights would play in his administration … received a note from Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize-winning … the centrality of human rights to his administration. Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev …
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Jimmy Carter’s lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle the Soviet Union
30 Dec 2024 02:21 GMT
… and Russia, then known as the Soviet Union … Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter … Andrei Sakharov – who were fighting an ideological war against socialist leaders.
Human rights … human rights, was a key instrument in dismantling the power of the Soviet …
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European Union honors Venezuela’s opposition leaders with heralded human rights prize
19 Dec 2024 09:41 GMT
… by recognizing them with a human rights prize.
The country’s election … is named after Andrei Sakharov, a former Soviet Union physicist and eventual dissident who won … advocated more international cooperation and human rights. The award was established in …
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EU honors Venezuela opposition leaders with top human rights prize
19 Dec 2024 00:43 GMT
… unwavering fight for democracy and human rights in Venezuela. The prize, … his commitment to justice and human rights despite facing intense repression.
… and human rights.
The Sakharov Prize, named after Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov, …
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Venezuelan opposition leaders receive the European Union’s top human rights honor
17 Dec 2024 12:38 GMT
… including disqualifications, arrests and human rights violations. Machado went into … which has seriously undermined human rights democratic institutions and the … , named after Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, was created …
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Putin wages a war on memory and history in Russia, Ukraine
02 Jan 2025 23:17 GMT
… prettier yet, unlike the Soviet Politburo’s communist paradise, … the Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov at its opening in … published in the Soviet Union, or Russia since Stalin’s death … copied straight faced from official Soviet narratives. For instance, …
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Jimmy Carter exited White House in 1981 but his policies hastened Soviet downfall in Russia
30 Dec 2024 07:03 GMT
… efforts that revolved around human rights.
Critics have described … . and Russia, then known as the Soviet Union or … including pro-democracy activist Andrei Sakharov– who were fighting an … human rights, was a key instrument in dismantling the power of the Soviet …
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'To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement' by Benjamin Nathans
27 Dec 2024 20:04 GMT
… the end of the Soviet Union. Their motivations were … dissidents tapped instead into Russia’s rich tradition of … Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov tarnished the Soviet image as the … However, there were many dissident movements, including those driven …