<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> PERSECUTION OF CRIMEAN TATARS 9-1. (1) Mustafa Dzhemilev: arrest and hunger-strike (Uzbekistan). 9-2. (2) Kurtumerov, Khalikov & Ramazanov trial (Ukraine); (3) other brief reports. * 2. The trial of Kurtumerov, Khalikov and Ramazanov As already reported (CCE 31.9), on 28 November 1973 the Zaporozhe Regional Court (chairman, N. P. … Continue reading Crimean Tatars, ’73-74 (32.9-2)
<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> On the 1960s wave of ‘unofficial variety’ a club for unofficial singing was organized in Moscow in 1967, from a group of authors, singers and musicians (who often combined these roles). Now, the Unofficial Song Club [USC] numbers about 200 group members (song clubs in higher educational institutions, schools, … Continue reading ‘Unofficial’ Entertainment, Aug ’76 (41.13)
<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> * RELIGION IN THE USSR 2-1. Lecture by Furin (USSR Council for Religious Affairs). 2-2. A Letter by Lev Regelson & Gleb Yakunin. 2-3. A new Way of Fighting Religion (Argentov & Ogorodnikov). 2-4. Evangelical Christians and Baptists. 2-5. Pentecostals. * 2.4 Evangelical Christians & Baptists. * FOUR SECTIONS … Continue reading Baptists, Aug ’76 (41.2-4)
<<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 the Soviet … 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>> Documents circulating in Georgian samizdat accuse the present hierarchy of the Georgian Orthodox Church, together with leading officials of the Georgian SSR's government and its KGB, of criminal activities [1]. * SEVEN ITEMS [1] KORIDZE'S REPORT. The most important such document is "A Report on Crimes Committed in the … Continue reading Samizdat & the Georgian Patriarchate, ’74 (34.13)
<<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>> On 20 April 1978, 26 days before the completion of his term of exile, Alexander A. BOLONKIN was arrested. In 1976 he had completed four years in the camps 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 48 : 14 March 1978>> AN ARREST AND A TRIAL: NAZARYAN & SHAGEN ARUTYUNYAN. The morning of 22 December 1977 saw the start of a major operation against the Armenian Helsinki Group (CCE 46.15 [13]). Group members Robert Nazaryan, a deacon of the Armenian Apostolic church, and Shagen Arutyunyan, a manual worker, were arrested … Continue reading Suppress Helsinki Groups: Armenia, ’77-78 (48.6)
<<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 and 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)
«Vesti iz SSSR» [R], 1986 (22/23-1; 15 December). On 8 December 1986 Anatoly Tikhonovich MARCHENKO (b. 1938), a political prisoner for many years, died in the maximum-security Chistopol Prison (Tatarstan). * HUNGER STRIKE. For several months prior to his death, Marchenko had been on hunger strike, which he began on 8 August 1986 (1986: 17-7). … Continue reading The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)
<<No 44 : 16 March 1977>> On 8 January 1977, an explosion took place in the Moscow Metro (Underground; feature photo). On 10 January, the news agency TASS reported that the explosion was not of great force, “medical help was given to those suffering injury, and an investigation is being conducted”. Later, at meetings of … Continue reading Moscow Explosions, Jan ’77 (44.16)
<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> FOUR TRIALS: ODESSA. DUSHANBE. SVERDLOVSK. KHARKOV. [1] ODESSA (south Ukraine) A trial, held off and on from 4 to 19 May, has now come to an end. The defendants, Oleksa Prityka, Oleksa Riznykiv and Nina Strokata (CCE 23.7 [4]; feature photo) were charged under Article 62 (UkSSR … Continue reading Political Trials, Spring ’72 (25.1)
<<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). * [1] Sakharov heard that he had won the Peace Prize from foreign journalists on the evening of 9 October. "I hope … Continue reading Sakharov’s Friends & Enemies, Dec ’75 (38.1)
<<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. MURZHENKO; Anatoly … Continue reading “Hijackers” Trial, Dec ’70 (17.6-1)
<<No 14 : 30 June 1970>> As already reported (CCE 12.4), a group of six people has been arrested and convicted in Ryazan. The investigation was carried out by the KGB; more than 100 witnesses were summoned. The case was heard in the Ryazan Region Court from 10 to 19 February 1970. Five of those … Continue reading Details of Ryazan Trial, Feb ’70 (14.7)
<< No 13 : 30 April 1970 >> TWENTY-ONE ENTRIES 1. A.D. Sakharov, V.F. Turchin and R.A. Medvedev "A letter to Party and government leaders" (19 March 1970) A scholar with a world-wide reputation ("the father of the hydrogen bomb"), Academician Sakharov, the research physicist V.F. Turchin who is author of the well-known samizdat pamphlet … Continue reading Samizdat, Apr ’70 (13.9)
«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). * Of the seven members of the Ryazan branch, six attended the meeting: Vasily Matushkin (Ryazan); Sergei Baranov (Ryazan, who chaired … 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 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 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 celebrations … 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)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> * 10-1. (1) Pre-Execution Meeting (2) MVD Directives (3) Vladimir Prison (4) Mordovia 10-2. (4) Mordovia [end] (5) Perm (6) Other Prisons & Camps [(7) A camp uprising] 10-3. (8) Letters and Statements by Political Prisoners (9) Releases * TWO SECTIONS 8. Letters and Statements 24 Letters and Statements … Continue reading Camps & Prisons, March ’78 (48.10-3)
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