Clarke peppered the novel with names of various Soviet dissidents, including physicists Andrei Sakharov and Yuri Orlov, human-rights activists Mykola Rudenko and Anatoly Marchenko, Russian Orthodox activist Gleb Yakunin, among others.
In 1978 Friedlander became actively involved in the worldwide human rights movement known as SOS — Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Sharansky.
He is a member of the Human Rights Watch Asia Advisory and Academic Freedom Committees, and member of the Honorary 25th Anniversary Committee, Global Rights.
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In 1976, to the further displeasure of the authorities, he founded the Moscow Helsinki Group to monitor Soviet adherence to the 1975 Helsinki human rights accords.
Yuri Gagarin | Yuri Bashmet | Yuri Milner | Yuri Orlov | Yuri Andropov | Yuri Shevchuk | Orlov | Yuri Baturin | Yuri Rozum | Yuri Gurevich | Yuri Averbakh | Yuri Trutnev | Yuri Stern | Yuri Shatunov | Yuri Semin | Yuri Nikulin | Yuri Landman | Yuri Kara | Yuri I. Manin | Yuri Galanskov | Yuri Ebihara | Yuri Dmitrievich Petukhov | Yuri Bogatyryov | Yuri Arbachakov | Yuri Ahronovitch | Orlov Revolt | Boris Orlov | Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov | Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov | Yuri Zhirkov |
He personally supervised all Soviet dissident cases including Sergei Kovalyov, Gleb Yakunin, Alexei Smirnov, and Yuri Orlov.
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As a deputy head of the investigation department of the Moscow branch of the Soviet KGB secret service, Trofimov supervised all cases of dissidents including Sergei Kovalyov, Gleb Yakunin, Alexei Smirnov, and Yuri Orlov.