The Passing of Russia's First Dissident Generation
Sergei Adamovich Kovalev, who died on August 9, was the last surviving leader of a Soviet human-rights movement that astonished the world, starting in the 1960s. Following Russia's reversion to despotic rule under Vladimir Putin, Kovalev continued, until the end, to hope against hope.
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NEW YORK – In November 1988, when the great Russian physicist and Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov made his only visit to the United States, he asked a few of his fellow human-rights activists to accompany him. One of them was the biologist Sergei Adamovich Kovalev, who died on August 9 at the age of 91.