Elena Bonner's Appeal for Support to the Sakharov Foundation.

Contacts and further information:

Further information can be obtained from

Anatoly Shabad, the member of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation (Russia), the Head of the Museum Council.
shabad@lpi.ru

Edward Kline, the President of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation (USA), edward.kline@worldnet.att.net
Tel: +1-212-369-1226, Fax: +1-212-722-0557

Tatiana Yankelevich, Director Sakharov Program on Human Rights, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
yankelev@fas.harvard.edu
Tel. 617 495 2476 Fax 617 495 8319

Many details can be found on the Russian-language web site of the Andrei Sakharov Center: http://www.sakharov-center.ru/index.htm. Here you can find all the materials relating to the hearings; the prosecutors speech and the defendants’ and their lawyers position, in particular. Some material in English can be found also on http://www.geocities.com/aakovalev/religia-en.htm.

Appeals and comments should be sent to:

1. O.A. Egorova, the chairman of the Moscow City Court, 2. V.V. Ustinov, the Prosecutor General, Moscow City Court, The Prosecutor General Office,
8, Bogorodskii val, 15a, ul. Bol’shaya Dmitrovka ,
Moscow, Russia , 107076 Moscow, Russia , 103793

and to Yuri Samodurov , who will put them on the web site of the Andrei Sakharov Museum
e-mail samodurov@sakharov-center.ru fax: (7-095) 917-26-53
The Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center
57, Zemlyanoi val Moscow, Russia

Yuri Samodurov

Yuri Samodurov was born in Moscow in 1951. From 1969 to 1971, he served in the Soviet army. In 1978 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Geological Surveying (MIGS), and in 1985 he was awarded the degree of Candidate of Science for his thesis on the geology of phosphate rock in Transcaucasia. When Gorbachev came to power in 1985, Samodurov was working in the economic department of MIGS on the development of democratic management practices. Samodurov played an active role in the Perestroika Club, and he was a founder of the “Memorial” Society, serving from 1987 to 1989 as a member of its governing board. Since 1990, Samodurov has been the executive director of the Andrei Sakharov Archive, Museum, and Public Center.

Yuri Schmidt, the lawyer of Yuri Samodurov

Yuri Schmidt was born in Leningrad in 1937. In 1991, he organized and was elected chairman of the Russian Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights. Among other cases, Schmidt is best known for his successful defense of Alexander Nikitin who was charged with divulging state secrets for revealing the environmental risk to the Barents Sea posed by rusting Russian nuclear submarines. In 1997, Schmidt was named Russia's "Lawyer of the Year" and received the Femida Prize, Russia's highest honor in jurisprudence.