3 ENTRIES
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PAPAYAN
Rafael Papayan, who teaches in the Yerevan University Department of Russian Literature (CCE 48.6), sent papers to the Higher Degrees Commission (VAK) for confirmation of his title as senior lecturer. They were returned to Yerevan.
Officially the title has not been refused; the papers were returned because of a mistake in the documentation and because of the need to verify some facts set out in a letter informing VAK that R. A. Papayan is systematically involved in anti-Soviet activities.
The following ‘mistake’ was found in the documentation: in one document the number of members of the university council was given as 67 and in another as 68. Apart from the fact that this in no way affected the relevant quorum, it should be noted that the second number had been written in over another number, which was inefficiently erased and probably correct.
R. Papayan’s repeated attempts to answer VAK’s queries and to send the documents back have met with no success. Papayan was excluded from the list of participants for the Conference on ‘Ancient Armenian Literature’ held in June in Leningrad.
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CHAMLIK
Eduard Chamlik, in whose department Vladimir Sirotinin (CCE 51.8 [6]) used to work, would not testify against Sirotinin when the KGB interrogated him, and refused to ‘condemn’ Sirotonin at a meeting.
The Director of the Institute, D, G. Mashukov, started to hound Chamlik: commissions were sent to the department, checks were made. Chamlik could not stand it and resigned on 19 March. Before his resignation, he was offered the alternative of ‘repenting’ and being promoted to the post of chief project designer.
Chamlik went to work at the computer centre of the Siberian Section of the USSR Academy of Sciences. On 23 March the Director of the Centre approved his application for the post of group chief and on 28 March Chamlik started work. However, on 3 April he was told that the ‘personnel commission’ did not recommend him and for the post and that the order appointing him was cancelled. A few days later it transpired that the order in which the paragraph about Chamlik’s appointment appeared had been retrospectively rewritten and that the relevant paragraph had been omitted.
Chamlik was given to understand that that he would not be accepted for work until he expressed repentance to the district Party Committee (he is not a Party member), and that the Regional Party was ‘overseeing’ his case. Chamlik was able to find work shortly afterwards.
Sirotinin had to change his place of work, or he would have been dismissed on account of ‘staff reductions.’
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DANNE
Erik Danne (CCE 35.7) was released from prison in 1975. In 1978, after marrying, he registered for residence in Moscow. After a while he was summoned to the KGB and invited to collaborate.
He categorically refused. Then on 21 December 1978 he was dismissed from work on the pretext of not having completed his probationary period: he had worked for five days and received no complaints about his work. Danne was threatened with arrest for parasitism.
He managed to find work but on 9 April 1979 he was dismissed again, at the demand of the police. His residence permit was withdrawn because, as the police told him, he had “concealed his previous conviction”.
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