Andrey Sakharov statue disappears from Moscow park, supposedly moved to Artsakh in South Caucasus
A statue of Andrey Sakharov, a Soviet nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate and human rights activist, has disappeared from Moscow’s Muzeon park, says Memorial. Credit: Muzeon Today, 21 May, would be Sakharov’s 101st birthday. He died in 1989. Yekaterina Gushchina, a local artist and tour guide, noticed that the statue was not there earlier today. “The park’s officials told us they did not know the statue was removed and claimed it was still there.