Anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki Group
40 years ago, on May 12, 1976, the oldest human rights organization currently operating in Russia, the Moscow Helsinki Group, was established. Its creation was announced at a press conference in the Moscow apartment of Academician Andrei Sakharov. Initially, the MHG included: Yuri Orlov (chairman), Lyudmila Alekseeva, Mikhail Bernshtam, Elena Bonner, Alexander Ginzburg, Petr Grigorenko, Alexander Korchak, Malva Landa, Anatoly Marchenko, Vitaly Rubin and Anatoly Sharansky.