Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development

The Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development (LT - Andrejaus Sacharovo demokratijos plėtros tyrimų centras, acronyms - ASRC, ASRCDD) is a university think tank which encompasses academic events, publications and archival holdings.

The Center organizes annual international scientific conferences, historical and educational exhibitions, workshops and a number of other events, as well as conducts relevant research, publishes academic papers and other publications.

The Center also functions as an archive of a vast variety of books, documents and other archival material on the Eastern European and post-Soviet space, political science, history (especially since the World War II period), dissident movements, political freedom, resistance, international relations and others.

The Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development is headed by the human rights activist, historian, sovietologist, professor Robert van Voren.

The Center collects archives on issues related to the democratic movement in the USSR and at the moment has The Center has a large number of books donated by Peter Reddaway, Andrew Blane, Edward Kline, and Peter Reddaway, as well as donations from several UK based scholars and Sovietologists.