the Amaldi Medal and, in 2013, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology. In 2014, Starobinsky, together with Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Andrei Linde of Stanford University, was a co-recipient of the Kavli Prize awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2019, he received, together with Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Rashid Sunyaev, the Dirac Medal, (ICTP). Political positions In February 2022, he signed an open letter by Russian scientists condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. See also Starobinsky inflation References External links Homepage CV, pdf 1948 births Russian astrophysicists Russian cosmologists Soviet astrophysicists Soviet cosmologists Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Living people Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Russian activists against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Kavli Prize laureates in Astrophysics Fellows of the American Physical Society