Civil rights activist Sergei Kovalev sat in Soviet camps and prisons for his convictions. As a politician in the Soviet Union and after 1991 in Russia, he fought steadfastly for freedom, against hatred and war. His legacy is more relevant than ever.
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Sergei Kowaljow (1930–2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg in 2009 when the Sakharov Prize was awarded.
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There he stood at events well into old age, a little stooped, with a watchful look, argumentative, incorruptible, indomitable and completely unpretentious: Sergei Adamowitsch Kowaljow, the former Soviet dissident, civil rights activist and fighter for freedom and human rights beyond the break of an era. Now at the age of 91 and a moral authority to the end of his life, he fell asleep on Monday night in Moscow.
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