Natan Sharansky, a former spokesman for Andrei Sakharov, spent nine years in the Soviet gulag for his human rights activities. His most recent book, written with Gil Troy, is “Never Alone: Prison, ...

OSLO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, ...

Before 1984, the address of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., was 1125 16th St. But that year Congress, in a move led by then Sen. Al D'Amato, took the unusual step of renaming the street after ...