<< Issue 61 : 16 March 1981 >>

LENINGRAD. At the beginning of February M. Tkhorzhevskaya was interrogated at the KGB in the case of N. Maltseva (CCE 60.9).

She admitted she was the author of a pseudonymous story published in the almanac Women and Russia (CCE 55.11) [note 1], and claimed that Mamonova who left the country in July 1980, CCE 57.18-2) and Maltseva, who had ‘involved’ her in feminist activities, had inspired its publication. Tkhorzhevskaya repented of her ‘deed’ and in order to ‘expiate her guilt’ promised to speak as a witness at Maltseva’s trial. This, the investigator informed her, would be transmitted on television [note 2].

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MOSCOW. On 12 February Gleb Pavlovsky (CCE 60.5) was summoned to Yu. A. Burtsev. When Pavlovsky asked in what capacity he had been summoned (in the warrant he was designated as a ‘witness’), Burtsev did not reply.

Burtsev let it be understood that Case No. 50611/14-79 was being closed, but that a charge would be brought (CCE 60.5) against the three members of the editorial board of Poiski (Searches) who were still at liberty: Lert, Gershuni, and Pavlovsky. The investigator attempted to clarify who else was a member of the editorial board besides those named.

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The same day Burtsev interrogated V. Godnev (//CCE 57). Burtsev asked three questions:

Q: Have you got anything new to add since the last interrogation?

A: No.

Q: Will you carry on engaging in human rights activities?

A: I never did.

Q: Will we meet again?

A: I don’t know.

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NOTES

[1] Women in Russia was translated into English and published as a book by Sheba Feminist Publishers, London, 1980. Tkhorzhevskaya’s pseudonym was I. Tishchenko.

[2] Maltseva was given a two-year suspended sentence in spring 1981.

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