<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> Documents concerning the movement of the Crimean Tatars to return to their homeland and their persecution [see note 1] by the authorities: 1. An appeal to the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the USSR Council of Ministers and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (copy … Continue reading The Persecution of the Crimean Tatars (27.4)
Category: deportation
The Expulsion of a Correspondent (26.6)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> On 5 May David Bonavia, Moscow correspondent of the London paper The Times, was ordered to leave the USSR. On the same day, the British government registered a protest. D. Bonavia is the twentieth foreign correspondent to be expelled from the USSR in the last two years. On 6 … Continue reading The Expulsion of a Correspondent (26.6)
Political Releases, April 1979 (53.1)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> Pardons. On 15 June 1970, a group of people who were planning to hijack an aeroplane and escape abroad in it were arrested in Leningrad. In December of the same year, they were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, and on two of them, Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov, … Continue reading Political Releases, April 1979 (53.1)
In the Crimea, March 1978 (48.14)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> On 15 October, a tractor set to work on the plot of ground attached to the home of Fatherland War invalid of the first category, Asan Mamut (CCE 47). Mamut's sister and her husband, who tried to save the vegetable patch, were beaten up. On 1 December, the Belogorsk district … Continue reading In the Crimea, March 1978 (48.14)
Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in USSR (1970-1986)
<<Other texts and documents>> By the mid-1970s the Chronicle regularly published a section reporting on “The persecution of [religious] believers”. Often it was further subdivided between Adventists, Pentecostalists and Baptists, joined from time to time by Orthodox Christians and Catholics in Moldova. References to the harassment of Jehovah’s Witnesses are far less frequent, as the … Continue reading Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in USSR (1970-1986)
No 43 : 31 December 1976
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Many of the reports in this issue have not yet been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE Nos 43-45, see below) are given next to the other items in this Contents page [*] (1) The Release of Vladimir Bukovsky "A Victory for the … Continue reading No 43 : 31 December 1976
No 57 : 3 August 1980
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Some of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE No 57, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page. (1) The trial of Vladimir Poresh (Leningrad) [8] (2) PERSECUTION OF THE MOSCOW HELSINKI … Continue reading No 57 : 3 August 1980
Statement on the Crimean question , 1971 (31.13)
<<No 31 : 17 May 1974>> Statement of the Crimean Tatar people on the Crimean question in connection with the 24th Party Congress (1971, 9 pages) The present-day national movement goes back to the struggle of the Crimean Tatars against tsarist colonialist policies. “Blessed will be the minute”, – the statement quotes Russky Vestnik [the … Continue reading Statement on the Crimean question , 1971 (31.13)
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