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MOSCOW.
Konstantin Shaumyan, a student in his final year at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, has been expelled a week before defending his graduation thesis. He was informed of his expulsion from the Institute two days before his defence.
Formally speaking, he was expelled for allegedly narrowing the subject of his thesis, and he has the right to defend it in a year’s time. The real reason for his expulsion, clearly, was that Shaumyan’s parents had received permission to emigrate to Israel. His father, S. K. Shaumyan, is a D.Sc. (philosophy) and an eminent Soviet linguist.
At the same time as his expulsion, Konstantin Shaumyan was deprived of his officer’s rank. And although he immediately submitted his documents to the Department of Visas & Registration (OVIR) in order to emigrate with his parents, the military commission is now calling him up for service in the army.
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ODESSA.
The teacher Anna Golumbievskaya (CCE 34.15 [2], CCE 35.10 [22]) has been left without teaching obligations for the forthcoming school year, that is, in effect, without work.
Anna V. Golumbievskaya (1937-1994)
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VILNIUS.
After Aloizas Jurgutis, a lecturer at the Vilnius Conservatory, fled abroad in May 1974 his wife M. Jurgutiene was dismissed from her job in the Znanie [Knowledge] Society in September after a telephone call from the Central Committee of the Lithuanian SSR Communist Party.
At KGB interrogations it was demanded of her that she influence her husband not to participate in the activities of Lithuanian émigrés. For this she was promised that she would be allowed to go abroad with her daughter.
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ALMA-ATA.
A certain woman (the Chronicle does not know her name), a lecturer at the Kazakh University, left her group while on a trip abroad and travelled to Paris.
In Paris she talked to Roger Garaudy [1]. She also wanted to see Yefim Etkind (CCE 32.17-3), but he was ill. Then she returned to her group. After her return she was dismissed from her job and expelled from the Party.
A rumour was spread that she had wanted to remain abroad.
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NOTES
- Books by left-wing French commentator Roger Garaudy were translated in the USSR and published in Russian.
In the early 1970s, on the orders of Glavlit six of his works were removed from Soviet libraries (CCE 35.15, No. 4).
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