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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