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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.
Yelena G. Bonner, a Russian human rights activist who, with her late husband, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei D. Sakharov, was one of the Soviet Union’s most outspoken political dissidents ...
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. Bonner died Saturday afternoon in ...
BOSTON — 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 Bonne… ...
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, 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 ...
(JTA) — Yelena Bonner, a Soviet human rights activist who was married to the late Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, has died. Bonner, who smuggled her husband’s writings out of Siberia, died ...
Yelena Bonner, 88, human rights activist. Yelena Bonner’s death in Boston on June 18 at 88 has been covered widely, and JTA’s first-day news coverage provided the basics of her life as wife of ...
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 ...
MOSCOW — Yelena Bonner, human-rights activist and widow of Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, died Saturday in Boston, said her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich. She was ...
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.