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Imprisoned journalists from Belarus and Georgia win EU's Sakharov Prize for 2025

The European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Andrzej Poczobut from Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli from Georgia.

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Jailed Belarus, Georgia Journalists Win EU's Top Rights Prize

The EU parliament awarded the bloc's Sakharov human rights prize on Wednesday to jailed Georgian journalist and editor Mzia Amaghlobeli and Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, calling them symbols of the "struggle for freedom".

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Jailed journalists in Belarus, Georgia win EU’s Sakharov human rights prize

Imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut from Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli from Georgia won EU’s top human rights award, the Sakharov Prize, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced on Wednesday.

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Why does the universe exist?

The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends.

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Venezuelan Opposition Figures Win EU's Top Rights Sakharov Prize

The EU parliament awarded the bloc's top rights Sakharov prize on Thursday to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and her ally, former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.

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Physicists Want To Drill A 5-Kilometer Hole On The Moon, Discussion Online Ensues

Proton decay was first proposed by Andrei Sakharov in 1967, yet to this day there’s no evidence of it on Earth; therefore, Patrick Stengel is proposing to dig for the answers on the Moon. The post Physicists Want To Drill A 5-Kilometer Hole On The Moon, Discussion Online Ensues first…

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‘They don’t care about the optics’: in Navalny’s funeral, echoes of dissidents past

The official response to the deaths of opposition figures is a sure guide to the state of repression and freedom in Russia

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EU remembers Iranian woman who died in custody at awarding of Sakharov human rights prize

The European Parliament is remembering a young woman who died in Iranian police custody during a ceremony at which she and a Iranian human rights group were officially awarded the EU’s top human rights prize

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Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody, is awarded EU human rights prize

Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize

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Mahsa Amini and Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement win Sakharov human rights prize

Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize on Thursday.

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The late Mahsa Amini is named a finalist for the EU's top human rights prize

Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been named a finalist for the European Union’s top human rights prize

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Russia shuts down human rights group that preserved the legacy of Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov

Russian courts have ordered the liquidation of a human rights organization that preserved the legacy of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov and have ordered the detention of a prominent election monitor

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The ultra-careful quest to find the shape of the electron’s charge

Physicists use extreme precision tests to search for flaws in the Standard Model. A new study used a strong electric field in the molecule hafnium fluoride to measure the electric dipole moment of its valence electrons, and concluded by finding no evidence of 'new physics'. This result precludes the existence…

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Moscow human rights centre packs up as state tightens 'monopoly on memory'

Posters chronicling the end of the Cold War lie discarded near outdoor rubbish containers, and staff inside sift through papers and stack books as over a quarter of a century of Russian human rights work is packed up.

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Russia declares U.S. Sakharov Foundation 'undesirable'

In an echo of the Cold War, Russian authorities blacklisted on Monday a U.S.-based foundation named for Andrei Sakharov, the late Soviet-era dissident physicist known for supporting nuclear disarmament, international cooperation, and human rights.

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Ukrainian people receive Sakharov freedom prize

The people of Ukraine received the European Parliament's annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Wednesday to honour their fight against Russia's invasion.

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People of Ukraine handed EU's top human rights prize

The people of Ukraine and their representatives have been handed the European Union’s top human rights prize for their resistance to Russia’s invasion and defiance during the ongoing war

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EU awards top human rights prize to the people of Ukraine

The people of Ukraine and their representatives have been awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize for their resistance to the Russia's invasion and ongoing war

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People of Ukraine win EU Sakharov prize for their fight against Russia

The people of Ukraine and their representatives were awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize Wednesday for their resistance to Russia's invasion and ongoing war.

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'A rebuke to Putin's dictatorship': Russian human rights group Memorial wins joint Nobel peace prize

It’s difficult to exaggerate the importance of the inclusion of the Memorial Society, the Russian human rights movement, among the recipients of this year’s Nobel peace prize, which also recognised human rights campaigners in Ukraine and Belarus.

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Why Gorbachev’s legacy still threatens Putin

Little remains of the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader and one of the greatest reformers in Russian history.

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Editorial: Gorbachev's legacy and Putin's war

"I like Mr. Gorbachev," British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said in 1984. "We can do business together."

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A time of hope, now dashed – former Reuters reporter recalls the Gorbachev years

Euphoria. There is no better word to describe my feelings, the feelings of many in the Soviet intelligentsia, when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and started the reforms that the world came to know as perestroika and glasnost. It was the euphoria of liberation, freedom, hope.

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