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WASHINGTON -- Yelena G. Bonner, a Russian human rights activist who, with her late husband, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei D. Sakharov, was one of the Soviet Union's most outspoken political dissidents, died June 18 in Boston. She was 88.
She had been hospitalized since February, had heart surgery in March and since then had had several bouts with infection, said her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich.See the full content of this document
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Yelena G. Bonner Dies; Russian Rights Activist
Bonner was a prominent activist even before she met Sakharov, the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, at the...
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