The organization, named after Nobel Peace laureate and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, ran a museum and cultural space in Moscow.
spy or traitor in Russia. This year in January, the center was informed that the city of Moscow
was evicting it from its premises, following a December law banning state bodies from supporting “foreign agent” groups.The center held its last public event in February and was given until end of April to dismantle its museum exhibition and close its physical space. Sakharov, who died in 1989, was a nuclear physicist instrumental in developing the Soviet hydrogen bomb. But he later warned about the dangers of an arms race and became a dissident who sharply criticized the Soviet Union., in recognition of his work on advancing the cause of human rights in the Soviet Union and campaigning for disarmament, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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