<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>> The Arrest of Gleb Yakunin. As in the case of Tatyana Velikanova, Father Gleb YAKUNIN was taken from his home early in the morning and not told that this was an arrest; nor was he shown a search warrant. The investigator even reproached him when he began to say … Continue reading 1 November 1979 (54.1-2)
<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>> SIBERIA. BODAIBO (Irkutsk Region). On 3 October Zinovy Antonyuk (CCE 53.20) wrote to USSR Minister of Internal Affairs N. A. Shchelokov. He requested permission to visit a specialized medical institution for examination and treatment, or that his place of exile be changed to a town where there is a … Continue reading In Exile, Nov 1979 (54.14)
<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>> Chistopol Prison. On 2 August Mikhail Kazachkov (CCE 53.19-1) had a two-hour visit from his mother. Before the visit D. A. Kazachkova asked Malafeyev, the prison Head, to have the censor cross out the prohibited passages in the letters her hunger-striking son had written her and let her read … Continue reading In the Prisons and Camps, Nov 1979 (54.13-1)
<<No 52 : 1 March 1979>> Resolution No. 700. The unpublished Resolution No. 700 of the USSR Council of Ministers: “On Additional Measures to Tighten the Residence Regulations in the Crimean Region”, dated 15 August 1978, has already been mentioned (CCE 51.13). The following extract from the resolution has now become available: The USSR Council … Continue reading Persecution of Crimean Tatars, March 1979 (52.9)
<<No 34 : 31 December 1974>> A. Solzhenitsyn: “Letter to the Soviet Leaders” (27 pages) The “Letter” is dated 5 September 1973. In March 1974, after he had been sent into exile, Solzhenitsyn had the letter published. In the foreword to the March edition of the “Letter”, he writes: “I wrote this letter, with all … Continue reading Samizdat Update, Dec 1974 (34.20)
Prisons and Camps (45.11-1) Political Prisoner status (45.11-2) Letters and Statements; Releases (45.11-3) <<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> Vladimir Prison. An Appeal by political prisoners signed by Abankin, Antonyuk, Afanasyev, Balakhonov, Davydov, Rode and Safronov about the exchange of Bukovsky for Corvalan (see “Letters and Statements by Political Prisoners” CCE 45.11-3) has fallen into … Continue reading Prisons and Camps, March 1977 (45.11-1)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> Lithuania. Not less than six searches were carried out between 19 and 22 April 1977 in Kaunas. Over twenty people were interrogated in connection with the searches. On 20 April 1977 former political prisoner Balys Gajauskas (CCE 34.7) was summoned for interrogation in Vilnius and arrested there. He was … Continue reading Searches, Interrogations, Arrests, May 1977 (45.10)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» The mass registration in the Crimea of Crimean Tatars, which representatives of authority promised in February 1977 (CCE 44), has so far proved by no means comprehensive. From February to September 1977 the ownership of houses which had been bought was legalized, and about 200 families were registered. Amongst … Continue reading Persecution of Crimean Tatars, Sept-Dec 1977 (47.7)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> From 23 June to 1 July 1977 in the town of Druzhkovka (Donetsk Region, east Ukraine) the trial took place of the writer Mykola Danilovich RUDENKO, head of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and a member of the Soviet Group of Amnesty International, and Oleksiy Ivanovich TYKHY, a member of … Continue reading The Trial of Rudenko & Tykhy, June 1977 (46.4)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» Naum Meiman: “The Monument at Baby Yar” (15 September 1977, 4 pp.) Concerns the efforts of the authorities to hide the fact that those exterminated at Baby Yar in September 1941 were primarily Jews. * Tatyana Khodorovich & Victor Nekipelov: To Jimmy Carter: “Don’t Retreat before the Rhinoceros! Politics … Continue reading Samizdat Update 3, 1977 (47.18)
<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> The Trial of Kalynychenko. The trial of Ukrainian Helsinki Group member Vitaly KALYNYCHENKO [note 1] charged under Article 62 pt. 2 (Ukrainian Criminal Code = Article 70 of the RSFSR Code), took place in Dnepropetrovsk in mid-May 1980. Kalynychenko was sentenced to 10 years of strict-regime camps and five … Continue reading Events in Ukraine, Feb-July 1980 (57.13)
<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> On 1 April 1980, Valery FEFYOLOV, a member of the Action Group to Defend the Rights of the Disabled in the USSR (CCE 51.17), was issued a “warning in accordance with the Decree” [note 1]. * On 17 May the Yuryev-Polsky district newspaper For Communism published an exposé, “Whatever … Continue reading Persecution of Disabled Action Group, 1980 (57.5)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> In protest against the expulsion of Victor Yerofeyev and Yevgeny Popov from the Soviet Writers Union, two other contributors to the Metropole almanac (CCE 52.14 & CCE 54.21) Semyon LIPKIN and his wife Inna LISNYANSKAYA have announced their resignation from the Writers Union (CCE 55.9). The poet and translator … Continue reading In the Writers Union, Jan-March 1980 (56.26)
<<No 55 : 31 December 1979>> [1] The Arrest of Lesiv (Bolekhov). On 15 November 1979, Yaroslav LESIV was arrested in the town of Bolekhov, Ivano-Frankovsk Region (west Ukraine), and charged with possessing narcotics. Before his arrest Lesiv was searched. The people searching him went straight for his jacket, in which they found a packet … Continue reading Arrests, November-December 1979 (55.2-4)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> (See CCE 54.1, Arrest & CCE 55.2 c) Investigator Katalikov informed Tatyana VELIKANOVA’s relatives of her request to be sent a Bible and photographs of her grandsons. He also agreed to pass on to Velikanova short notes about family matters from her relatives. The Bible was delivered in the … Continue reading Case of Tatyana Velikanova, Jan-April 1980 (56.7)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> “As we enter the 1980s …” In March 1980, the Voice of America radio-station broadcast an interview with Sakharov entitled “Some Thoughts as we Enter the 1980s”. (He gave the interview in written form on 22 February 1980 to a Washington Post correspondent. The newspaper published his answers on … Continue reading Sakharov in exile, Jan-April 1980 (56.1-2)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> In the late 1970s, the Chronicle reported (“News in Brief”, CCE 44.26) that the Novosti Press Agency was preparing a book, On the Deportation of A.D. Sakharov. Now it’s happened. On 22 January 1980, at 2 pm police stopped the Academy of Sciences car in which Sakharov was being … Continue reading Sakharov in exile, Jan-April 1980 (56.1-1)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> On 15 January 1979, the priest Dmitry DUDKO (CCE 32.20 c, CCE 38.17 c, CCE 39.7 c & CCE 43.9) was detained in the village of Grebnevo (Moscow Region) immediately after a church service. He was presented with a warrant for his detention signed by KGB Major Sorokin and … Continue reading The arrest of Dmitry Dudko, 15 January 1980 (56.9)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> (See CCEs 52-55: 1 March to 31 December 1979) On 31 December 1979, the editorial board of the journal Poiski [Searches] issued a statement to its readers. It opens issue No. 8: “Twenty months have passed since the first issue of Poiski appeared. We are now offering the reader … Continue reading The Journal “Poiski”, Dec 1979-April 1980 (56.5)
<<No. 53, 1 August 1979>> CASE No. 46012. On 6 March 1979, in Moscow and Leningrad, another series of searches was conducted in connection with Case No. 46012/18-76 (CCE 52.4-4). Officials of the Moscow Procurator's Office conducted searches at the homes of Alexander Daniel and Raisa Tseilikman. Officials of the Leningrad KGB, acting “on behalf … Continue reading Case No. 46012, March-July 1979 (53.15)
<<No 52 : 1 March 1979>> On 7-8 February 1979, in the town of Radomyshl (Zhytomyr Region) the trial of Vasyl OVSIENKO took place. He was charged under Article 188-1, pt. 2 (Ukrainian Criminal Code: “Resisting a Police Officer ...”). The Judge was Kovalenko; the Procurator, L. Sitenko; and the defence lawyer, S. M. Martysh … Continue reading Vasyl Ovsienko’s trial, 7-8 February 1979 (52.2)
«No 58 : November 1980» From 16 to 18 September the Kalinin Regional Court, presided over by Judge A.N. Kiselyova, heard the case of Josif Getselevich DYADKIN (b. 1928), who was arrested on 25 April (CCE 56.13), and Sergei Maximovich GORBACHEV (b. 1952) arrested on 5 June (CCE 57.9). Both were charged under Article 190-1 … Continue reading Dyadkin & Gorbachev’s trial, September 1980 (58.20)
FIRST RESPONSES TO THEIR ARRESTS <<No 54 : 15 November 1979>> A statement by the MOSCOW HELSINKI GROUP The Group to Assist the Implementation of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR: Document No. 111 (3 November 1979) “A sharp increase in the persecution of the movement for the rule of law in the USSR”. "On … Continue reading Velikanova & Yakunin, November 1979 (54.1-3)
<< No 33 : 10 December 1974 >> Valentyn MOROZ is continuing the hunger strike he began on 1 July 1974 (CCE 32.12). * Valentyn Yakovlevich MOROZ was born on 15 April 1936. In 1958 he graduated from the History Faculty of Lvov University and from 1958 to 1964, Moroz taught history at a school. … Continue reading Moroz Continues Hunger Strike, Dec 1974 (33.9)
<<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 almost all religious prisoners. For more details on the men and women listed here see … Continue reading Political Prisoners, Preface, August 1977 (46.23-1)
<< No 39 : 12 March 1976 >> On 9 May 1975, at 12 noon, on the thirtieth anniversary of the victory over German fascism, a Jewish anti-fascist meeting took place in Minsk. War veterans, former partisans and young people gathered in the former ghetto district. About five hundred people were present, including Jews from … Continue reading In Defence of Yefim Davidovich, 1975-1976 (39.4)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> Vyacheslav IGRUNOV is threatened with internment in a special psychiatric hospital. As far as the Chronicle knows, no such sentences have been imposed in “political” cases during the past three years [note 1]. There follows an account of the investigation in Igrunov’s case. For the reader’s convenience these include … Continue reading The Case of Vyacheslav Igrunov, Dec 1975 (38.8)
<< No 40 : 20 May 1976 >> Statement by Tatiana KHODOROVICH. At trials in Odessa, Moscow, Omsk and Vilnius, people have again been prosecuted and found guilty of thoughts they have expressed – and even thoughts they have not expressed. Sentences have been passed as follows: Vyacheslav Igrunov – sent to an ordinary psychiatric … Continue reading “No Thought Trials in the USSR”, May 1976 (40.1)
«No 17 : 31 December 1970» On 15-24 December 1970, the trial of M.Yu. DYMSHITS E.S. KUZNETSOV Sylva I. ZALMANSON J.M. MENDELEVICH I.I. ZALMANSON Yu.P. FYODOROV A.G. MURZHENKO A.A. ALTMAN L.G. KHNOKH B.S. PENSON and M. A. BODNYA was held in the Leningrad City Court The court consisted of: N. A. Yermakov, chairman of the … Continue reading Leningrad “Hijackers” Trial, December 1970 (17.6)
<<No 15 : 31 August 1970>> On 7 July 1970, a session of the Moscow City Court's judicial board for criminal affairs considered the case of Natalya Yevgenyevna GORBANEVSKAYA. Chairman : V.V. Bogdanov (People's assessors: Andreyev & Zaslavskaya) Procurator (prosecutor) : Prazdnikova Counsel for the defence : Sophia V. Kalistratova Expert : Professor Lunts The … Continue reading The Trial of Gorbanevskaya, 7 July 1970 (15.1)
<< Issue No 2 : 30 June 1968 >> To World Public Opinion. "21 June 1968. "In 1944 THE WHOLE OF OUR PEOPLE was slanderously accused of betraying the Soviet Мotherland and was forcibly deported from the Crimea. "All the adult men were at the front; able-bodied older men and youngsters were in the labour … Continue reading An Appeal by Crimean Tatars, June 1968 (2.4)
«No 8 : 30 June 1969» On 20 May 1969 a letter was sent to the UN Commission on Human Rights with a request to look into the violation in the Soviet Union of one of the basic human rights, the right to hold independent convictions and to propagate them by any legal means. The … Continue reading An Appeal to the United Nations, May 1969 (8.10)
<<No 2 : 30 June 1968>> Vladimir Region,Alexandrov,27 Novinskaya St. To: G.A. Mitiryov, Chairman of the [USSR] Red Cross Society;B.V. Petrovsky, USSR Minister of Health;A.A. Pokrovsky, Director of the Food Institute, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences;Alexy, Patriarch of All Russia;M.V. Keldysh, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences;V.D. Timakov, President of the USSR Academy of … Continue reading A Letter from Marchenko, 17 April 1968 (2.6)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> The decisive development marking the start of action by the investigators in the “case of the inscriptions” (CCE 42) was the evidence given by G. Trifonov (CCE 42), who was arrested on 9 August 1976 in a case ‘of his own’. On 3 September he wrote “testimony in his … Continue reading The Trial of Volkov & Rybakov, March 1977 (45.2)
<< No 33 : 10 December 1974 >> 1. A.N. Chekalin: Verdict (1971) Case No. 6-74 (secret) In the name of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, on 15 June 1971 the Voroshilovgrad Regional Court, consisting of: V. A. Yaresko as chairman and K. A. Baranova and M. F. Drozhzhina as people’s assessors; with T. M … Continue reading Trials of Recent Years, Dec 1974 (33.10)
<<No 55 : 31 December 1979>> The Trial of Reshat Dzhemilev (Tashkent) The trial of Reshat DZHEMILEV, arrested on 4 April 1979 (CCE 53), was resumed (CCE 54) in Tashkent on 11 December. Dzhemilev's relatives and friends were allowed into the courtroom. On the second or third day of the trial Dzhemilev said that he … Continue reading … AND UZBEKISTAN, April 1979 (55.1-2)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» * LENINGRAD. In May 1977 Sergei Levin, a senior laboratory worker at the Leningrad University Research Institute of Mathematics, had to face a special review of his qualifications (CCE 45). In April the union official in his laboratory, junior scientific worker Andrei Grigorevich Filippov, refused to sign a character … Continue reading Extrajudicial Persecution, November 1979 (47.13)
<<No. 53, 1 August 1979>> Interrogations in connection with the case of the journal Poiski, which began after the searches on 25 January 1979 (CCE 52.4-4), are continuing. At an interrogation on 12 April Investigator Yu.A. Burtsev presented member of the editorial board Valery ABRAMKIN with a resolution about the institution of proceedings regarding the … Continue reading THE CASE OF “POISKI” (Searches), Aug 1979 (53.16)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> On 13 July 1979, member of the Armenian Helsinki Group Eduard Arutyunyan (CCE 48.5) was arrested in Erevan. He was arrested on the premises of the Armenian Procuracy, to which he had been summoned in connection with one of his statements. A search was conducted at his home and … Continue reading The Arrest of E. Arutyunyan, July 1979 (53.18)
<< No. 43 : 31 December 1976 >> Antanas Patackas, an assistant professor at the Agricultural Academy in Kaunas, was not ‘retired on his pension' (CCE 41), but removed from his post without the right to continue in teaching work; this was done not because of his ‘religious prejudices’ but because of his ‘nationalism' and … Continue reading Additions and Corrections, Dec 1976 (43.18)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> TRIALS IN THE CRIMEA At the beginning of March in Simferopol, Ebazer Yunusov was sentenced to one-and-a-half years’ deprivation of freedom under Article 196 (Ukraine SSR Criminal Code: (‘Violation of Passport Regulations’). He was arrested in his own house in Mazanka village on 22 January 1979 after his family … Continue reading Persecution of Crimean Tatars, 1979 (53.22-2)
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