Word: kovalev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Orlov was imprisoned a few days later, following the arrests of other Soviet dissidents including Vladimir Bukovski, Sergei Kovalev and Alexander Ginzburg...
...competition, two Russians, Sergei Volkov, the current world champion, and Vladimir Kovalev, the runner-up, will try to outskate Britain's John Curry. In the recent European championships, Curry's elegant, balletic style left the Russians behind...
Symbolic Guests. While his wife was in Oslo, Sakharov was in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius trying-unsuccessfully-to appear as a character witness at the trial of a friend, Biologist Sergei Kovalev, who was charged with circulating "slanderous fabrications" including an underground Roman Catholic journal. Still awaiting trial on a similar charge is another Sakharov friend, Physicist Andrei Tverdokhlebov. In his award speech, Sakharov described the two imprisoned men as "noble defenders of justice, legality, honor and truthfulness," and invited them to be his symbolic guests in Oslo. As the Nobel ceremonies ended, Kovalev received the unusually severe sentence...