The European Union's legislature on Tuesday celebrated the bravery and staunch resistance of Venezuelan opposition leaders ...

The European Parliament presented Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González with the Sakharov ...

ANDREI SAKHAROV was a Soviet nuclear physicist and dissident and the winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the author of Alarm and Hope and Collected Scientific Works.

Soviet Academician Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 for his advocacy of civil liberties and civil reforms in the former Soviet Union. The Norwegian Nobel Committee called ...

The Sakharov Prize, named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, was established in 1988 by the European Parliament (see background). Recent recipients were the Russian civil rights ...

Norwegian Nobel Committee head Berit Reiss-Andersen ... Led initially by another Peace Prize laureate, Andrei Sakharov, in the late 1980s, its work uncovered the true scale of Joseph Stalin's ...

The Sakharov Prize, named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov ... in putting the Sakharov Prize on par with the Nobel Peace Prize, argues that Sakharov himself would have awarded ...

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian ... He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. Sakharov was born in Moscow on May 21, 1921. His father was Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, a private school ...

The annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought ... The award comes two weeks after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an imprisoned Iranian rights campaigner, Narges Mohammadi, who has been ...

This year's Sakharov Prize is to be awarded to María Corina Machado, leader of Venezuela's democratic forces, and President-elect Edmundo González Urrutia. They represent all Venezuelans both inside ...

The EU award, named after Soviet dissident Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, was created in 1988 to honor individuals or groups who defend human rights and basic freedoms. The winner is ...

the story of the life of Andrei Sakharov, the most famous Soviet dissident, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, is revealed.