Celebrations for the 100th birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov will mainly be in the West. In Russia, his fame has faded even as his experiences are increasingly relevant today.
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Andrei Sakharov, who was born 100 years ago this month, remains an inspirational figure for human rights activists around the world. We take a pictorial look at how this brilliant and loyal Soviet physicist ultimately became the U.S.S.R.'s strongest and most celebrated voice of moral dissent.
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For most of the world, Andrei Sakharov, who was born 100 years ago this week, is remembered as a fearless and tireless champion of human rights and freedoms in the Soviet Union.
It was for his work as an outspoken dissident to the Soviet authorities that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
Andrei Sakharov
The citation called him the conscience of mankind, saying that he has fought not only against the abuse of power and violations of human dignity in all its forms, but has in equal vigor fought for the ideal of a state founded on the principle of justice for all.