INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Andrei Sakharov as Moscow continues to crack down on dissent in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.The activities of the Andrei
efforts and anti-war events."The organization chaired by mathematician Alexei Semyonov has not yet commented on Russia's latest
Prize in 1975 for his work against the nuclear arms race he had helped precipitate, though he was not permitted to leave the Soviet Union to
accept the award.Sakharov became one of the most distinctive personalities of the perestroika era, rising to the status of a national moral
authority.Arrested in 1980 after denouncing the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Sakharov was sent into internal exile in the city of Nizhny
Novgorod, then closed to foreigners.After six years in exile, during which he undertook several hunger strikes, Sakharov was released over a
telephone call by reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
