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Sakharov’s widow Yelena Bonner dies aged 88

Published on 19/06/2011

Yelena Bonner, the widow of Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov and a relentless critic of Soviet-era human rights abuses, died on Saturday at the age of 88, her children said on Sunday.