Names and persons

31/07/2023 - 12:50

Oppenheimer was a picture of nervous exhaustion. He was always slender, but after three years as director of "Project Y", the scientific... →

22/05/2023 - 12:25

Kissinger guided US foreign policy from 1969 to 1977, first as President Nixon’s national security adviser and then as secretary of state.... →

28/02/2022 - 19:24

“This might be the last time you see me alive,” he reportedly told European Union leaders on a call about steps the bloc was... →

18/01/2022 - 16:22

Winnie Byanyima: Vaccine warrior This UN leader knew that vaccine equity wouldn’t happen without a fight. Before vaccines for COVID-... →

31/12/2021 - 13:13

His death was announced by his son, Boris, who wrote: “One of the best people in our country has died. My father loved life wholeheartedly... →

13/09/2021 - 13:26

His sentimental appeal is well-received, until a second extraterrestrial stands up and begins to list humanity’s wrongdoings, which include... →

24/05/2021 - 13:25

Sakharov was born in Moscow on May 21, 1921, into a family that was firmly established as part of the city's intelligentsia. Like much of... →

21/01/2021 - 21:53

Prof. Vishnevsky was an outstanding scholar, arguably the most renowned demographer of Russia and the post-Soviet space. He contributed... →

01/10/2020 - 18:07

In 1973, Orlov founded the Moscow branch of Amnesty International. Three years later, he helped create the Moscow Helsinki Group. Initially... →

21/09/2020 - 18:42

From the sprawling conflicts of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the tyrannies of Stalin to the collapse of the Soviet Union and Vladimir... →

15/08/2020 - 19:42

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which Gavison formerly headed, stated that "Ruth was a major figure who helped shaping the... →

07/08/2020 - 16:55

Steinsaltz, an educator who established a network of schools in Israel and the former Soviet Union, wrote more than 60 books on subjects... →

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