Editing Andrei Sakharov (section)

== Influence ==

=== Memorial prizes ===
The [[Sakharov Prize|Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought]] was established in 1988 by the [[European Parliament]] in his honour, and is the highest tribute to human rights endeavours awarded by the European Union. It is awarded annually by the parliament to "those who carry the spirit of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov"; to "Laureates who, like Sakharov, dedicate their lives to peaceful struggle for human rights."<ref>{{cite web
 | title = Sakharov Prize Network
 | publisher = European Parliament
 | url = http://www.europarl.europa.eu/intcoop/sakharov/prize_en.html
 | access-date =10 December 2013}}</ref>

An [[Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS)|Andrei Sakharov prize]] has also been awarded by the [[American Physical Society]] every second year since 2006 "to recognize outstanding leadership and/or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights".

The [[Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage]] was established in October 1990.<ref>[http://www.chukfamily.ru/Lidia/Biblio/Rasskazova.htm "For Writer's Civic Courage"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526141526/http://www.chukfamily.ru/Lidia/Biblio/Rasskazova.htm |date=May 26, 2008 }}, ''[[Literaturnaya Gazeta]]'', October 31, 1990</ref>

In 2004, with the approval of [[Yelena Bonner]], an annual Sakharov Prize for journalism was established for reporters and commentators in Russia. Funded by former Soviet dissident Pyotr Vins,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chronicle6883.wordpress.com/no-49-14-may-1978/|title=No 49 : 14 May 1978|work=A Chronicle of Current Events|date=2013-10-07}}</ref> now a businessman in the US, the prize is administered by the [[Glasnost Defence Foundation]] in Moscow. The prize "for journalism as an act of conscience" has been won over the years by famous journalists such as [[Anna Politkovskaya]] and young reporters and editors working far from Russia's media capital, Moscow. The 2015 winner was Yelena Kostyuchenko.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gdf.ru/digest/item/1/1334#ev1|title=Glasnost defence foundation digest No. 734|access-date=January 17, 2016|archive-date=November 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101214418/http://www.gdf.ru/digest/item/1/1334#ev1|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center ===
The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center, established at [[Brandeis University]] in 1993, are now housed at [[Harvard University]].<ref name="Arc">[http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/sakharov/ Harvard University. KGB file of Sakharov] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516090712/http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/sakharov/ |date=May 16, 2006 }}</ref>
The documents from that archive were published by the [[Yale University Press]] in 2005.<ref name="SakharovBook">The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov. (edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov), New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005; {{ISBN|978-0-300-10681-7}}</ref> These documents are available online.<ref name="bookonline">[http://www.yale.edu/annals/sakharov/sakharov_list.htm The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521130856/http://www.yale.edu/annals/sakharov/sakharov_list.htm |date=May 21, 2007 }}, online version with original texts and the English translations in English and in Russian (text version in [[Windows-1251]] [[character encoding]] and the pictures of the original pages).</ref>

Most of documents of the archive are letters from the head of the [[KGB]] to the [[Central Committee]] about activities of Soviet dissidents and recommendations about the interpretation in newspapers. The letters cover the period from 1968 to 1991 ([[Brezhnev stagnation]]). The documents characterize not only Sakharov's activity, but that of other dissidents, as well as that of highest-position [[apparatchik]]s and the KGB. No Russian equivalent of the KGB archive is available.