Sergei Kovalev, a prominent Soviet dissident and Russia’s first human rights ombudsman, died on August 9, 2021, at the age of 91. A talented biophysicist, Kovalev paid a high price for his ...

Sergei Kovalev (file photo) (RFE/RL) 9 December 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Sergei Kovalev is a biophysicist who is credited with founding the first human rights organization in the Soviet Union in 1969. His ...

Like many in the Soviet dissident movement, Kovalev joined the human rights struggle from the academic world. A successful biophysicist and head of a laboratory section at Moscow State University ...

Sergei Kovalev, a renowned human rights advocate and dissident who had campaigned for democratic freedoms since Soviet times, died in Russia on Monday at age 91, his son Ivan said on Facebook.

Sergei Adamovich Kovalev was born on March 2, 1930, in Seredina Buda, in northeastern Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union. The family moved to the Podlipki district, near Moscow, when ...

One of Russia's most famous human rights defenders and former Soviet dissident, Sergei Kovalev, died aged 91 on Monday, his family said. Kovalev was a ...