Russia’s struggling Sakharov Museum, which “aims to promote the ideas of human rights and civil society,” has been offered a boost from an unlikely source. Boris Berezovsky, the industrialist accused of embezzling $1 billion from Aeroflot airlines and who fled the country last month, has gievn the museum $3 million. “The donated sum is almost twice the museum’s total budget over the four years of its existence, which was about $1.7 million. That money had come from foreign grants, the bulk of which were from the U.S. Agency on International Development, which stopped funding this fall.” – Moscow Times