NCSJ - Sakharov Mural Vandalized

Sakharov Mural Damaged in Moscow

Associated Press

MOSCOW - Anti-Semitic and obscene slogans were spray-painted over a mural of Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov at a Moscow human rights museum, its director said.

Sakharov, a physicist and one of the developers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became an eloquent critic of the Communist regime and a leader of the democratic movement before he died in 1989.

The 10-foot-high mural, in a square outside the Sakharov Museum, was vandalized overnight, director Yuri Samodurov said.

He speculated that it could have been damaged by teenagers or by "an order" from the authorities because of the museum's outspoken political views.


	*Washington Post - 06.01.2002* The Washington Post Sakharov Mural Damaged in Moscow Associated Press MOSCOW - Anti-Semitic and obscene slogans were spray-painted over a mural of Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov at a Moscow human rights museum, its director said. Sakharov, a physicist and one of the developers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became an eloquent critic of the Communist regime and a leader of the democratic movement before he died in 1989. The 10-foot-high mural, in a square outside the Sakharov Museum, was vandalized overnight, director Yuri Samodurov said. He speculated that it could have been damaged by teenagers or by "an order" from the authorities because of the museum's outspoken political views.
	Home About Mission Links Interns Kehilla Statistics Donations Search Contact 2020 K Street, NW, Suite 7800, Washington, D.C. 20006 Phone: (202) 898-2500 Fax: (202) 898-0822 Email: ncsj@ncsj.org Web site: www.ncsj.org