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Shultz devoted the bulk of his 20-minute speech to another familiar topic: U.S. displeasure with Moscow's human rights record. He named 22 Soviet citizens victimized by Moscow over the past decade. Among them were Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, Physicist Yuri Orlov, Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky and more obscure citizens like Yuri Balovlenkov, whose "crime" was to marry a U.S. citizen...
...both events—the first held in Emerson Hall by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the second held at the JFK Jr. Forum at the Kennedy School of Government—Sharansky focused on the legacy of Andrei Sakharov...
...Sakharov, a preeminent Soviet nuclear physicist, became an outspoken critic of human rights violations in the former Soviet Union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize...
...Sakharov spent many years trying to convince free nations like the United States to “stop supporting dictators, and the people will do the rest for themselves.” Sharansky was Sakharov’s spokesman before being imprisoned in the Soviet Union for almost a decade and eventually immigrating to Israel...
...voice of Sakharov was heard,” Sharansky said, pointing to former President Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech and criticism of Soviet human rights abuses...