OSLO (Reuters) - On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, so his ...

The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov Yale, 448 pp., $45 FROM 1968 UNTIL HIS DEATH in 1989, the KGB sent hundreds of reports to the Soviet leadership about ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Two Iraqi women who once were captives of Islamic State, a leader of the Crimean Tatars and a former Turkish newspaper editor have been named finalists for the European Union's ...

I was once asked whether it was easy to live with a genius. The question was unexpected for me. I simply loved Andrei Sakharov, although I understood, of course, that I was the companion of a man of ...

Andrei Sakharov once described Igor Kurchatov as a man whose most pronounced trait was his fascination with "grand" science. The physicist who headed the Soviet nuclear program from 1943 until his ...

BRUSSELSBRUSSELS — The European Parliament on Tuesday remembered a young woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, during a ceremony at which she and a Iranian human rights group were ...

One of the journalists, behind bars in Belarus for covering anti-government rallies, refused to seek a pardon despite his heart condition. Another, jailed in Georgia, defiantly stood up at her trial ...

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize hopeful, has won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. She joins the ranks of Nelson Mandela, jailed ...