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Yelena G. Bonner, a Russian human rights activist and widow of Nobel laureate Andrei D. Sakharov who came under repression by secret police, died Saturday in Boston.
Friends and colleagues of Soviet dissident Yelena Bonner, who died in Boston over the weekend, say today it's possible to work within the system – meaning true dissidents are rare.
AS A child, Yelena Bonner loved to be alone. As soon as she could walk she wandered away, preferably into warm spring rain. At the family's summer dacha at Sestroretsk she strayed deep into the ...
Reporting from Moscow -- Yelena Bonner, human rights activist and widow of Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died. She was 88.
Yelena Bonner's life was all about the willingness to make the political personal and to back up ideals with the small, practical actions that constitute a movement – a package for a labor-camp ...
Yelena Bonner, a Russian rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died, her daughter said early Sunday. She was 88.
Yelena Bonner, bearing gifts that include a radio-controlled toy automobile, plans to rejoin her exiled husband, Andrei Sakharov, in the closed city of Gorky Wednesday morning. Bonner, who returned… ...
Remembering human rights activist Yelena Bonner and Charlotte Bloomberg, mother of the New York mayor.
Dissident Yelena Bonner ended a six-month visit to the West on Monday, saying she never would have returned except for her husband, physicist Andrei Sakharov. Bonner arrived at Moscow`s Sheremetyev… ...
Yelena Bonner, who died on June 18 aged 88, was a Russian rights activist and widow of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, sharing his tribulations over long years at the hands of the ...
Yelena Bonner, a Russian rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died, her daughter said Sunday. She was 88. The 88-year-old died of heart failure Saturday in ...
BOSTONBOSTON — Yelena Bonner, a Russian rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died, her daughter said early Sunday. She was 88. The 88-year-old Bonner died ...