Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky

male, 61 years old
Natan Sharansky </ref> He resigned from the Knesset on November 20, 2006. As of June 18, 2007, Sharansky is the president of Beit Hatefutsot, the...
Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Bukovsky

male, 66 years old (United Kingdom)
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (b. December 30 1942) is a notable former Soviet political dissident, author and an activist. He was one of the...
Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

male, deceased (1989)
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21 1921 – December 14 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sa...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

male, 90 years old
Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (born December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world...
Yelena Bonner

Yelena Bonner

female, 86 years old
Yelena Georgevna Bonner (born February 15, 1923) is a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov.
Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

female, deceased (1982)
Ayn Rand (March 6 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, best known for creating a...
Andrei Amalrik

Andrei Amalrik

male, deceased (1980)
Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik, alternatively spelled "Andrei" or "Andrey", was a Russian writer and dissident. Amalrik was best known in the Western...
Larisa Bogoraz

Larisa Bogoraz

female, deceased (2004)
Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz (full name: Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz-Brukhman (Bogoraz was her father's last name, Brukhman her mother's), Russian...
Andrei Sinyavsky

Andrei Sinyavsky

male, deceased (1997)
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (Russian language: was a Russian writer, dissident, gulag survivor, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University,...
Sergei Kovalev

Sergei Kovalev

male, 79 years old
Sergei Adamovich Kovalev (also spelt as Sergey Kovalyov; ; b. March 2 1930) is a Russian human rights activist and politician and a former Soviet...