Margaret Thatcher meets Yelena Bonner to discuss husband’s exile
- Title
- Margaret Thatcher meets Yelena Bonner to discuss husband’s exile
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- 30 May 1986
- Year of production
- 1986
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- Duration
- 00:02:46
- Description
- Report on Yelena Georgevna Bonner, a human rights activist in the USSR, whose husband Andrei Sakharov, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been exiled internally in Russia. Bonner has met with UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and is to return to Russia after heart surgery in America. She expresses her gratitude (via an interpreter) for Margaret Thatcher’s support in her husband’s case; Thatcher comments on Sakharov’s situation. Female reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Margaret Thatcher; Yelena Bonner
- Keywords
- Margaret Thatcher; UK; Exiles; Russia; USSR; International relations; France; Communism; Italy; Andrei Sakharov
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