<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> [1] On 12 September 1977, the deputy head of the Vladimir City Section for Visas and Registration (OVIR) Major Ilyukhin informed Victor NEKIPELOV of the Moscow Helsinki Group that he had been refused an exit visa: “We consider that you have no reason to visit the State of Israel … Continue reading The Right to Leave, December 1978 (51.16)
Category: emigration
Activities of Soviet Jews, June to September 1973 (30.12)
<<No 30 : 31 December 1973>> To protest against the grounds on which they had been forbidden to leave the USSR, seven Moscow scientists met at the home of Alexander Lunts (Moscow, 15 Garibaldi Street, building 2, flat 76) on 10 June 1973 to commence a hunger strike that lasted many days. In denying these … Continue reading Activities of Soviet Jews, June to September 1973 (30.12)
Extra-Judicial Persecution (25.9)
<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> A group of Crimean Tatars has sent a letter to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, the USSR Council of Ministers and the USSR Supreme Soviet, citing numerous facts relating to the local authorities' oppression of Crimean Tatars returning to the Crimea: refusal to register … Continue reading Extra-Judicial Persecution (25.9)
Repression in Ukraine, pt. 2 (27.1)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> Arrests In Kiev two staff-members of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy Yevhen Lisovy and Vasyl Pronyuk (aged about 30), have been arrested [note 1]. Lisovy had written a letter to the Ukrainian Central Committee and the KGB protesting about the increasing repressions in the Ukraine. The … Continue reading Repression in Ukraine, pt. 2 (27.1)
The End of School No 2 in Moscow, October 1972 (27.11)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> By 1 September 1972, the Moscow Physico-Mathematical School No. 2, once one of the most popular of the city’s schools, had to all intents and purposes ceased to exist. An experimental curriculum Over a period of eight years teachers at the school had worked an experimental curriculum which gave … Continue reading The End of School No 2 in Moscow, October 1972 (27.11)
Those who Have Left, November 1977 (47.8)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» Kaluga Region. In August Valentin Ivanov (CCE 46) left the USSR. Donetsk Region. In October Victor Borovsky (CCE 46) left the USSR. Kiev. In September the Chudnovsky family (CCE 46) departed from the USSR. They were not allowed to take their mathematical manuscripts. * Moscow. At the beginning of … Continue reading Those who Have Left, November 1977 (47.8)
The Trial of Begun, 28 June 1978 (50.8-5)
<<No. 50 : November 1978>> Candidate of Technical Sciences Josif Ziselevich BEGUN (b. 1933) has been a refusenik since 1971, He is an activist of the Jewish emigration movement. In 1977 Begun was sentenced under Article 209, part 1, of the Russian Criminal Code (“leading a parasitic way of life for a prolonged period”) to … Continue reading The Trial of Begun, 28 June 1978 (50.8-5)
News in Brief, December 1973 (30.14)
<<No 30 : 31 December 1973>> [1] Boris Shilkrot, whose arrest was reported in CCE 29, has been sentenced to 6 months in a strict-regime camp for violation of residence regulations. In 1969 Shilkrot was sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment under Article 70 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (CCE 17 and 22). He spent the … Continue reading News in Brief, December 1973 (30.14)
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