Sunday, June 19, 2011

Yelena Bonner, 1923-2011. R.I.P.

Yelena Bonner, best remembered along with her husband, Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, as the first couple of the Soviet dissident movement in the 1970s and 1980s, died yesterday in Boston after a lengthy illness. She was 88.

To read the rest of this obituary, please check out The American Spectator.

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