«Other texts and documents» Early in October the east Ukrainian KHPG (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group) website published a detailed and persuasive article by Vitaly Novykov, entitled "From Propaganda to Algorithms". It argues that "digital technologies are undermining critical thinking and freedom of expression" and began the argument with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration … Continue reading AI to AI (Oct 2026)
02. CCE Contents (1968-1982) * [1] "SOCIAL ISSUES" (1969-1972; 1-15). «Общественные проблемы» (Dissidence & Samizdat Project) * No 1, Aug 1969 CCE 10.13 [1]; No. 2, Dec 1969 CCE 11.14 [8]; No. 3, Jan-Feb 1970 & No. 4, April 1970 CCE 13.9 [12, 13]; No. 5, May-June 1970 CCE 14.12 [8]; No. 6 July-Aug 1970 … Continue reading 16.1 : “Social Issues”, Veche, Poiski, Obshchina
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> * An excerpt from the judgement of the Judicial Board (USSR Supreme Court) for Criminal Cases: see “Moscow Explosions” (CCE 44.16) and “The Metro Explosion Trial” (CCE 52.1). Judgement, 24 January 1979 (excerpt). *** * The Court was presided over by E.A. Smolentsev, Vice-Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court, … Continue reading “Metro Explosion” Document, Jan ’79 (56.29)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> * LITHUANIA. In 1967 the publishing house Mintis (‘Thought’) issued a pamphlet, "Dying, They Fought", edited by Vytautas Denas and published in Vilnius. One of its short articles contained a description of how the priest Vincentas Gelgota killed a man. In May 1968 Gelgota wrote a letter to Denas … Continue reading Believers, Dec ’75 (38.17)
<<No 35 : 31 May 1975>> * NINE ENTRIES * [1] Bukovsky & Gluzman "A Manual on Psychiatry for Dissenters" [1] This article, at the end of which the ‘addresses’ of its authors — Vladimir Prison and a Perm political labour camp — are given, is dedicated to Leonid Plyushch, a victim of psychiatric tyranny. … Continue reading Samizdat, Mar ’75 (35.12)
<<No 34 : 31 December 1974>> * Solzhenitsyn "A Letter to the Leaders" * 20-1. “Letter to the Soviet Leaders” (Solzhenitsyn, 1973). 20-2. From Under the Rubble (1974) * AND RESPONSES (2-18) Sakharov, Roy Medvedev, Mikhail Agursky, Vladimir Osipov, Raissa Lert, Leonid Borodin, Alexander Yanov & 9 others *** * [1] Solzhenitsyn “A Letter to … Continue reading Samizdat, Dec ’74 (34.20-1)
<< No 33 : 10 December 1974 >> PERM CAMPS * 5-1. (1-6) CAMP 35: (1 & 3) hunger strikes, (2) official reply. 5-2. (4) Appeals, (6) Bukovsky. (7-13) CAMP 36: hunger strikes. * Spread out over the Chusovoi district of the Perm Region is Penal Institution VS-389, a camp complex where political prisoners are … Continue reading Perm Camp 35, ’74 (33.5-1)
<<No 34 : 31 December 1974>> In Armenia in 1973-1974 a series of trials took place in which Armenians were charged with "Anti-Soviet Agitation & Propaganda" and with "organizational activity aimed at committing especially grave crimes against the State and participation in anti-Soviet organizations" (Articles 65 & 67, Armenian SSR Criminal Code). Under the latter … Continue reading Trials in Armenia, Nov ’73-Nov ’74 (34.4)
«No 28 : 31 December 1972» * 1. Arrests and Trials 2. Extrajudicial persecution; 3. About certain Arrests and Trials * THREE SECTIONS * [1] ARRESTS & TRIALS * (1) PLAKHOTNYUK On 13 November 1972, in the Kiev Regional Court, the case of Nikolai Grigorevich PLAKHOTNYUK, a physician aged 36, was heard in absentia. Plakhotnyuk … Continue reading Repression in Ukraine, June-Dec ’72 (28.7)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> SEVEN ITEMS * EDUCATION (1-3) [1] Volkov and Golubev, students at the Latvian State University (physics and maths faculty) listened to and recorded on tape some excerpts from Solzhenitsyn’s book Gulag Archipelago, broadcast by a foreign radio station. They then reproduced the recording for their colleagues. They have been … Continue reading Extrajudicial persecution, Jul ’74 (32.18)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> 26 days before the completion of his term of exile, Alexander A. BOLONKIN was arrested on 20 April 1978. He had completed four years in the camps in 1976, under Article 70, pt. 1 (RSFSR Criminal Code; see CCE 30.4). * BEATINGS On 6 May 1978, Bolonkin was taken … Continue reading Bolonkin Trial [2], Aug ’78 (51.7)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> On 23 March, the Tbilisi newspaper Dawn of the East printed an anonymous article, “Who benefits from this?” On 24 March, the article was republished in Georgian in the newspaper Komunisti. The same day Zviad Gamsakhurdia was expelled from the Writers’ Union. On 25 March Zviad Gamsakhurdia issued a … Continue reading Gamsakhurdia & Kostava Arrest, Apr ’77 (45.9)
<<No. 50, November 1978>> 1-1. Part One 1-2. Part Two * PART ONE From 15 to 18 May the Moscow City Court heard the case of Yury Orlov, charged under Article 70 (RSFSR Criminal Code).[1] Judge V.G. Lubentsova presided over the court: she judged the Red Square ‘demonstrators’ in October 1968 (CCE 4.1). The lay … Continue reading Orlov Trial, May ’78 (50.1-1)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> The Russian Relief Fund for Political Prisoners (CCE 44.3) here gives the names of political prisoners & exiles known to it in mid-August 1977. [N.B. These 275 names EXCLUDE those in psychiatric hospitals and all but five religious prisoners. For more details on the men and women listed here … Continue reading Political Prisoners, Aug ’77 (46.23-1)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> On 9 October 1975, the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament awarded the annual Nobel Prize for "Activities contributing to Peace" to Andrei Dmitrievich SAKHAROV (aged 54). * THIRTEEN ENTRIES [1] SAKHAROV Sakharov heard that he had won the Peace Prize from foreign journalists on the evening of 9 … Continue reading Sakharov’s Friends & Foes, Dec ’75 (38.1)
«No 35 : 31 March 1975» BIOGRAPHY (1958-75) 1958 – Anatoly Marchenko, a 20-year-old master driller, was found guilty of participating in a brawl. He was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. (Later the case was reviewed and the sentence was changed to two years’ imprisonment.) 1959 – Marchenko escaped from a labour camp in Karaganda … Continue reading Marchenko Trial [4], Mar ’75 (35.2)
<<No 20 : 2 July 1971>> * Kukui Trial (Sverdlovsk) On 15-16 June the trial of Valery Kukui (b. 1938), an engineer at the Sverdlovsk “Agricultural Machinery” concern (CCE 19.11 [13]), took place at the Sverdlovsk Region Court under Article 190-1 (RSFSR Criminal Code). Access to the courtroom was unimpeded. The chairman of the court … Continue reading Kukui Trial, Jun ’71 (20.4)
<<No 19 : 30 April 1971>> * Gershuni, Notes from Oryol SPH. Vladimir GERSHUNI has been described in several earlier issues of the Chronicle, most fully in CCE 11.6 [1]. * Tuesday, 9 March. It has been announced that letters can be sent off only twice a month. This is just the same as in … Continue reading Gershuni & Oryol SPH, Mar ’71 (19.2)
<< No. 43 : 31 December 1976 >> * Days of Protest in the USSR. THREE DATES: 30 OCTOBER, 5 & 10 DECEMBER * [1] 30 OCTOBER 1976: POLITICAL PRISONERS' DAY * In 1976 Political Prisoners’ Day was observed for the third time (cf. CCE 33.1). In camps and prisons the traditional hunger-strikes took place … Continue reading Traditional Days of Protest, ’76 (43.2)
«No 17 : 31 December 1970» * LENINGRAD 6-1. Charges, defendants, witnesses 6-2. Final words, sentence, appeals *** * From 15 to 24 December 1970, the following eleven people [1] went on trial: (1-4) Mark Yu. DYMSHITS; Eduard S. KUZNETSOV; Sylva I. ZALMANSON; Josif M. MENDELEVICH; (5-8) Izrail I. ZALMANSON; Yury P. FYODOROV; Alexei G. … Continue reading “Hijackers” Trial, Dec ’70 (17.6-1)
«No 12 : 28 February 1970» From 12 to 19 January 1970 the case of Ilya Gabai and Mustafa Dzhemilev was heard in the Tashkent City Court. Ilya Gabai, from Moscow, was arrested after innumerable searches of his flat (CCE 8.4). Although charged under Article 190-1 (RSFSR Criminal Code), he was sent to Tashkent. Mustafa … Continue reading Gabai & Dzhemilev Trial, Jan ’70 (12.3)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» * Writers Union expels Solzhenitsyn. On 4 November 1969 the great Russian writer Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was expelled from the Writers' Union by its Ryazan branch (RSFSR Writers Union). * RYAZAN Of the seven members of the Ryazan branch, six attended the meeting: Vasily Matushkin (Ryazan); Sergei Baranov (Ryazan, … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn Expelled, Nov ’69 (11.1)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» TWO SECTIONS (1) BAKHMIN, KAPLUN & JOFFE; (2) NOVODVORSKAYA * [1] BAKHMIN, KAPLUN, JOFFE On 20 November 1969, the KGB arrested Vyacheslav Bakhmin, a 4th-year student in the physics & chemistry department at the Moscow Institute of Physics Technology. Bakhmin is twenty-two years old, and was a pupil at the … Continue reading Moscow Student Arrests, Dec ’69 (11.7)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» In her book Midday (Polden) Natalya Gorbanevskaya includes the following account by P.G. Grigorenko. It is published here in abbreviated form. * The idea of "special psychiatric hospitals" is not in itself without merit, but as for the way this idea is implemented in our country, there is nothing … Continue reading Grigorenko on SPH, Dec ’69 (11.2)
<< No 8 : 30 June 1969 >> On 6 June 1969, the second day of the World Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties in Moscow, five Crimean Tatars staged a demonstration [1] on the city's Mayakovsky Square [2]. * DEMONSTRATION At 12.15 pm Zampira Asanova, Enver Ametov, Reshat Dzhemilev (feature photo), Aider Zeitulayev and … Continue reading Crimean Tatars, Mayakovsky Sq, Jun ’69 (8.5)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> On 13 February 1974, after a prolonged and large-scale persecution campaign in the press, Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was deported from the Soviet Union. The immediate cause was the publication of his GULag Archipelago by the YMCA Press [1]. Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org (1918-2008) * "GULAG ARCHIPELAGO". The circumstances surrounding the … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn Deported, Feb ’74 (32.1)
<<No 7 : 30 June 1969>> * Ukraine & elsewhere 19 NAMES *** * DNEPROPETROVSK [DNIPRO] (1-11) * "ZORYA" NEWSPAPER [1-4] [1] S.Yu. Sheinin, one of the oldest journalists on the newspaper Zorya [Dawn], has been expelled from the Party and dismissed from work for a favourable review of The Cathedral, a novel by Oles … Continue reading Extra-judicial repression, ’68-69 (7.12)
«No 6 : 28 February 1969» NINE ITEMS * [1] In Kiev Nazarenko and two other employees of the hydro-electric station, Kondryukov and Karpenko, were recently tried on a charge of engaging in anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation. The defendants distributed through the post leaflets protesting against the Russification of the Ukraine and describing the Shevchenko … Continue reading News in Brief, Feb ’69 (6.9)
<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>> * The Soviet Human Rights Movement: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (1967-1972) titles selected and annotated by Peter Reddaway. (1) DOCUMENTS: 1 (a) General. 1 (b) Trials, Demonstrations, Persecution. 1 (c) National & Religious movements. (2) BOOKS BY SOVIET ACTIVISTS: 2 (a) Problems of Soviet Society. 2 (b) Belles-Lettres. (3) BOOKS … Continue reading Western Publications, ’72 (23.11)
