Сахаровский центр | |
 The Sakharov Center | |
| Formation | 1996 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Yelena Bonner |
| Dissolved | August 18, 2023 |
| Type | Non-profit NGO |
| Purpose | Preserving Andrei Sakharov's legacy, human rights promotion and monitoring |
| Headquarters | House 57, building 6, Zemlyanoy val street, 105120 Moscow, Russia |
| Fields | History of human rights movement and political repression in the Soviet Union |
Director | Sergei Markovich Lukashevsky |
| Website | sakharov-center.ru |
The Sakharov Center (Russian: Сахаровский центр) was a museum and cultural center in Moscow devoted to protection of human rights in Russia and preserving the legacy of the prominent physicist and Nobel Prize winning human rights activist Andrei Sakharov. It was founded by the "Public Commission to Protect the Legacy of Andrei Sakharov", an international non-governmental organization established in 1990 through the efforts of Sakharov's widow Yelena Bonner and other Sakharov's friends and colleagues.[1][2][3]
In August 2023, the center was shut down following a ruling by the Moscow City Court, after a request from the Justice Ministry.[4]
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