Word: alexeyeva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking like the shy and slightly awkward newlyweds they are, Alexei Semyonov, 25, and his wife, Liza Alexeyeva, 26, were reunited in Boston last week after 3½ years of separation. Alexei, the stepson of Soviet Dissident and 1975 Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, 60, and Liza, fell in love when they were students in Moscow. Alexei emigrated to the U.S. in 1978 and arranged a proxy marriage with Liza last June. The Soviet government, however, refused to permit Liza to join her husband. Only after a much publicized, 17-day hunger strike by Sakharov and his wife-now living...
...only one way: in defeat and, possibly, death by starvation. Then, four days after the dissident leader's hunger strike led to his being hospitalized, the Kremlin backed down. In a rare concession, the Soviet leadership surrendered to Sakharov's demand that his daughter-in-law Liza Alexeyeva, 26, be allowed to join her husband, Alexei Semyonov, in the U.S. Sakharov, 60, and his wife Yelena Bonner, 58, who had joined him in the hunger strike, broke their fast upon hearing the news that Alexeyeva was free to leave. Semyonov, 25, who is Bonner...
...that passed word of the Kremlin's decision to Alexeyeva that she could go to the U.S., thus halting Sakharov's fast. Alexeyeva, who married Semyonov by proxy last June, had been previously denied a visa to leave for the U.S. On Saturday, Alexeyeva boarded a train to visit the Sakharovs in the industrial city of Gorky, where the couple has been living in exile for the past 23 months...
...week's end, the government newspaper Izvestia published a tiny news item on the affair. The article, in its entirety, said: "In connection with the fact that the parents of Y.K. Alexeyeva have withdrawn their objections to her leaving the Soviet Union, a decision has been taken to grant her an exit visa by way of exception." It was the first announcement to the Soviet public that Sakharov had won his battle with the Kremlin...
Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, reportedly ended their 16-day hunger strike Tuesday after Soviet officials agreed to give the couple's daughter-in-law, Liza Alexeyeva, permission to join her husband in the United States. Sakharov and Bonner are in good health after their fast, Associated Press reports said yesterday...