There, Sakharov asked Graver to ensure the documents be passed on to his wife, Yelena Bonner, who was in Western Europe at the time. Graver said he would, according to the memo.

BOSTON - Yelena Bonner, a Russian rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, died, her daughter said early Sunday.

Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza are two of the most prominent victims of Putin’s repression. Their heroism is a sign that a different Russia is possible.

Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner, for instance, were seen as fearless fighters, standing up to an evil empire and enduring long and painful exiles, repressions and other punishments meted out by ...

No less unassailable a figure as Yelena Bonner, a leader of Russia’s democratic movement and the widow of Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet era’s most prominent dissident-physicist, defended Yeltsin ...

He was represented by his wife Yelena Bonner. In 1983, Polish union leader Lech Walesa declined the invitation to come to Oslo for fear he would not be allowed back into Poland.

In late 1979, my companion Lies van Veen and I knocked on a Moscow apartment door, hoping Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner — the Soviet Union’s best known dissidents — would be home.

Russian rights museum shutters but refuses to be silenced Moscow (AFP) – A museum emblematic of Russia's post-Soviet human rights movement has shut its doors in Moscow amid a clampdown on ...

Then opinion editor Gal Beckerman joins the conversation to discuss the life and legacy of Soviet dissident Yelena Bonner.

Throughout the trial, Sakharov protested loudly outside the courtroom, even as his wife, Yelena Bonner, travelled to Oslo in his place to read his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize.

An obviously tired but smiling Yelena Bonner arrived in the United States Saturday, as her family expressed its skepticism and concern over a new Soviet government statement regarding the health ...

Like Avital Shcharansky, Yelena Bonner will not let us forget her husband`s sweetness and strength and suffering. He has planted flowers and washed windows in anticipation of her homecoming.