CCE 44
The order given by Yu.V. Andropov, KGB chairman and member of the USSR Council of Ministers, to initiate a criminal case against Vladimir Osipov was issued not on 30 April 1976, as mistakenly stated in CCE 44 (V. Mashkova’s letter to Andropov, 7 December 1976), but on 30 April 1974.
*
CCE 45
The bus driver Baranov, who is trying to emigrate from the USSR (CCE 45.15), is called Vadim, not Vladimir.
*
What happened to E.B. Vinberg’s doctoral dissertation in April 1977 at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (CCE 45) was called “a supplementary opinion”, not a second defence.
The person in charge of this procedure was Academician Mardzhanishvili, deputy director of the institute. The person asked to leave the room with V. Arnold was A. Fomenko, not S. Novikov.
*
CCE 39
Certain details of the Ushakov-Sarkisyan case (CCE 39) have become known.
German Ushakov (b. 1932) graduated from the Urals Conservatory in 1957 and from the Economics Faculty of Leningrad University in 1969. At the time of his arrest, he was working in Leningrad as a senior research officer at the Leningrad Institute of Systematic Technology.
Emil Sarkisyan was working in Leningrad as a taxi-driver.
On 4 March 1975 they were arrested. On 21 August 1975 the Leningrad City Court, with Nina S. Isakova (deputy chair of the Leningrad City Court) presiding, heard the case of Ushakov and Sarkisyan. The prosecution was conducted by G.P. Ponomaryov, assistant procurator of Leningrad; Ushakov was defended by the lawyer Ya.A. Gurevich; Sarkisyan’s defence counsel is unknown to the Chronicle. Ushakov and Sarkisyan were charged under Articles 70 & 72 (RSFSR Criminal Code). In addition, Sarkisyan faced charges according to some other articles.
The case again Ushakov included dissemination of samizdat (Solzhenitsyn’s letter to the Soviet Writers Union, S. Alliluyeva’s book Only One Year, the Chronicle of Current Events and other material) and ‘oral propaganda’.
The basic charge against him was founding an anti-Soviet organization together with Emil Sarkisyan and Vladimir Ryadov. Vladimir Grigorevich Ryadov appeared as a witness in court, as the case was initiated on the grounds of his report to the KGB.
At the end of 1974 Ushakov, Sarkisyan and Ryadov founded the “All-Russian Group of Communist Revolutionaries”. The Group’s ‘Programme’ was written by Ushakov. According to this, their aim was to return to the management principle prevailing under the New Economic Policy (NEP), from 1921 to 1928.
In January 1975 the Group was renamed “The Revolutionary Social-Democratic Union”. Ushakov and Sarkisyan drew up the statutes of the union. They worked out a code of correspondence, found places to store literature, and thought up pseudonyms for group members. They began to work out the text for an oath. They discussed the question of members’ dues.
At the trial Ushakov pleaded guilty and repented. The Chronicle does not know how Sarkisyan behaved in court. The court sentenced Ushakov to five, and Sarkisyan to four, years in strict-regime camps.
==========================
A Chronicle of Current Events 