Yuri Yarim-Agaev

Soviet-American physicist and human rights activist — who was a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group — was denied emigration by Soviet authorities for 8 years — became a Reagan administration advisor on Soviet human rights after emigrating — founded the Center for Democracy in the USSR.

Serves as an important bridge between the Soviet dissident network and the Reagan administration's human rights policy — Yarim-Agaev's knowledge of Soviet dissident networks and his direct experience as a refusenik informed US human rights pressure on the USSR.