Moscow Helsinki Group documents (1976-1982)

Publications and Statements.

The titles of all documents (except Nos 20-25), were listed in the Chronicle, with excerpts from some of the texts.

DOCUMENT Nos. (CCE issue)

1-5May-July 1976 (CCE 41.8)
6August 1976 (CCE 42.10)
7-15October-December 1976 (CCE 43.6)
16-19January 1977 (CCE 44.10)
20-25April-November 1977 (MHG archive 2006, below)
26-38November 1977 to March 1978 (CCE 48.23-3)
39-49March-April 1978 (CCE 49.19-2)
50-68May-October 1978 (CCE 51.20-3)
69-81December 1978 to February 1979 (CCE 52.16-2)
82-98March-July 1979 (CCE 53.30-2)
99-111August-November 1979 (CCE 54.23-2)
112-116December 1979 (55.10-2)
117-129January-April 1980 (CCE 56.27-2)
128, 130-137April-June 1980 (CCE 57.24)
120, 132, 138-151August-December 1980 (CCE 60.23-2)
152-158January-March 1981 (CCE 61.21)
159-174March-July 1981 (CCE 62.22)
175-190July-December 1981 (CCE 63.24)
191-194February-April 1982 (CCE 64)
195 (last doc.)September 1982 (CCE 65.20)

Documents 20 & 22-25:

20. (12 April 1977) — Violation of citizens’ rights to emigrate.
21. “has not been found in any of the publications we know” (2006 compilers).
22. (26 March 1977) — German emigration from the USSR to West Germany.
SMHG Summary for the Belgrade Conference (April-May 1977).
23. (28 July 1977) — Emigration from the USSR for religious reasons.
24. (4 November 1977) — Discrimination against the Crimean Tatars continues.
25. To Heads of State of countries which signed the Helsinki Conference Final Act.

Source: https://www.mhg.ru/ (not accessible, February 2025)

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RUSSIAN

See “History” «Документы МХГ, 1976-1982» (2006), which includes the full text of all surviving documents and statements (in Russian).

Published in Russian at the time in volumes issued by Khronika Press (New York), e.g., Sbornik documentov Obshchestvennoi gruppy sodeistviya vypolneniyu khelsinkskikh soglashenii (1979).

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ENGLISH

English translations appeared in a variety of publications: e.g., Survey, London, No. 107, 1979), the three volumes of Reports of Helsinki Accord Monitors (1, Feb 1977; 2, June 1977; 3, Nov 1978), and The Right to Know (US Congress, Washington, 1977).

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