07. Helsinki Groups (1976-82)

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[34] including nine trials

GROUPS CREATED:

1976: Moscow (May), Ukraine (November) and Lithuania (November)

1977: Georgia (January) and Armenia (April)

1976: CCE 40.14, CCE 41.8, CCE 42.10, CCE 43.6 (Moscow, Ukraine), CCE 43.10 (Lithuania)

1977: CCE 44.2-1, CCE 44.2-2, CCE 44.3, CCE 44.4, CCE 44.5, CCE 44.6, CCE 44.7, CCE 44.8, CCE 44.9, CCE 44.10 (Georgia & Working Commission); CCE 45.4, CCE 45.5, CCE 45.7, CCE 45.19-2 [15], CCE 46.4 (Rudenko & Tikhy), CCE 46.5-1, CCE 46.5-2, CCE 46.15 [13] (Armenia); CCE 47.3-1, CCE 47.3-2, CCE 47.3-3

1978: CCE 48.2 (Moscow), CCE 48.3 (Ukraine), CCE 48.4 (Lithuania), CCE 48.5 (Georgia), CCE 48.6 (Armenia);

CCE 49.2, CCE 49.3 (Marynovych & Matusevich), CCE 49.4 (Pyotr Vins), CCE 49.6, CCE 49.19-2 (MHG docs, 39-49); CCE 50.1 (Orlov), CCE 50.2 (Gamsakhurdia & Kostava), CCE 50.3 (Ginzburg), CCE 50.4 (Shcharansky), CCE 50.6 (Lukyanenko), CCE 51.1 (Nazaryan)

1979: Moscow Helsinki Group documents (69-116):

CCE 52.16-2 (Dec 1978-Feb 1979, 69-81), CCE 53.30-2 (March-July, 82-98), CCE 54.23-2 (Aug-Nov, 99-111), CCE 55.10-2 (Dec, 112-116)

1980: CCE 56.3 (MHG), CCE 56.16 (Armenia), CCE 57.2 (Moscow)

Moscow Helsinki Group documents (1980, 117-151):

CCE 56.27-2 (Jan-April, docs 117-129); CCE 57.24 (April-June, docs 128-137); CCE 60.24-2 (Dec: docs 120, 132, 138-151)

1981: Moscow Helsinki Group documents (152-190):

CCE 61.21-2 (Jan-March, docs 152-158); CCE 62.22-2 (March-July, docs 159-174); CCE 63.24-2 (July-Dec, docs 175-190)

1982: Moscow Helsinki Group documents (191-195)

CCE 64.21-2 (Feb-April, docs 191-194); CCE 65.20-2 (September, document 195)

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NOTES

NOTE: Issues 40-45 of the Chronicle were not published in English by Amnesty until 1979. Instead they appeared in the “Chronicle of Human Rights in the USSR” (CHR).

For official discussion and action, see Bukovsky Archive:

1 June 1976, St 10/4 [3.3; 8] – Secretariat. Setting up an official body within the USSR to monitor its observance of the Helsinki agreements. [R: 1 June 1976, St 10-4]

How to halt Helsinki Groups (20 Jan ’77* A) KGB report. Measures to halt the anti-Soviet activities of the “Helsinki Watch Committee in the USSR“: Yury ORLOV, Alexander GINZBURG (feature photo), Mykola RUDENKO, and Tomas VENCLOVA. Includes Secretariat Resolution, St 1/15 (25 January 1977) [R: 20 January 1977, St 1-15]. 6 pp.