Word: alexeyeva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action compelling enough to attract world attention, the Soviet Union's most celebrated dissident went on a hunger strike last week. The world-renowned physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize said that he was protesting the inhuman treatment given his daughter-in-law, Yelizaveta (Liza) Alexeyeva, 26, by Soviet authorities...
Sakharov explained that Liza had been denied permission to join her husband, Alexei Semyonov, 25, a graduate student in mathematics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Semyonov had emigrated to the U.S. 3½ years ago, but Alexeyeva was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union. When they were married by proxy last summer in Butte, Mont., Soviet authorities did not acknowledge the ceremony...
...developed a persistent cough on the fourth day of his food strike. He and his wife, Yelena Bonner, 59, the mother of Alexei Semyonov, are drinking only mineral water to prevent dehydration. "His will is strong-it's his body that I'm worried about," said Liza Alexeyeva in Moscow. Before leaving Moscow last week to rejoin her husband in Gorky, where he has been exiled since 1980, Bonner said that she and Sakharov intended "to see it through. Until Liza leaves...
MARRIED BY PROXY. Alexei Semyonov, 24, graduate student in mathematics at Brandeis University and stepson of exiled Soviet Dissident and Physicist Andrei Sakharov; and Liza Alexeyeva, 25, Moscow mathematician who has been barred from emigrating from the Soviet Union; he for the second time, she for the first; in Butte, Mont., because the state is one of the few to recognize proxy marriages. Semyonov, who has lived in the U.S. since 1978, spoke his vows to Alexeyeva's stand0-in, Edward Kline, editor of the Russian-language publishing house, Khronika Press...