Full video recording and Press Release, 22.05.2021

On 21 May, the birthday of Academician Andrei Sakharov, Yabloko held an international zoom-conference dedicated to his centenary.

Speeches were made by Russian human rights defenders Sergei Kovalyov, Valery Borshchyov, Vyacheslav Bakhmin, Svetlana Gannushkina, Viktor Kogan-Yasny, politicians Vyacheslav Igrunov, Maxim Kruglov, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Boris Vishnevsky, Alexander Gnezdilov, Boris Misnik, journalists  Vladimir Kara-Murza and Vladimir Mukusev, and writer Alexander Arkhangelsky.

Foreign participants of the conference were MEP Petras Auštrevičius, Dmitry Glinsky, President of the Russian-speaking Community Council President (New York), Nikolai Katerinchuk, leader of the European Party of Ukraine, writer Polina Zherebtsova (Finland), Antonina Bouis, translator and member of the Board of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation (US),  Henrik Bach Mortensen, Vice-President of the pan-European liberal party ALDE, and Astrid Thors, Vice President of Liberal International.

On the same day, Yabloko hosted in its Moscow office an exhibition of photographs by Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov and quotes from his works and speeches. The exhibition was prepared by the Sakharov Centre* for display in Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow, but was not permitted by the Moscow authorities.

* Listed by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents.