We envision people to be free of war and repression, living in a society based on empathy and respect in which future generations have equal opportunities for individual growth.
"A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours."
Andrei D. Sakharov Essay -- “Thoughts on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom” published in the New York Times, 1968
[Sakharov was] “a European citizen who was the personification of freedom of thought and expression and who had decided, because of his convictions and his conscience, to renounce all the material advantages and all the honors which were open to him”.
Jean-François Deniau, MEP
The Andrei Sakharov Research Center contributes to the development of a pluralist and democratic society in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.