<<No 29 : 31 July 1973>> [1] Irina Kristi, Tatyana Velikanova, 0lga Joffe, Irina Kaplun, Ludmila Kardasevich, Yury Kiselev, Malva Landa, Sergei Khodorovich, Tatyana Khodorovich and Nadezhda Shatunovskaya have sent a letter to R.A. Rudenko, Procurator-General of the USSR. It concerns a violation committed by the Moscow City Procurator’s Office with respect to S.G. Myuge … Continue reading News in Brief, July 1973 (29.11)
Category: expulsion from organisation (incl. Party)
Extra-judicial persecution, July 1974 (32.18)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> Volkov and Golubev, students at the Latvian State University (physics and maths faculty) listened to and recorded on tape some excerpts from Solzhenitsyn’s book Gulag Archipelago, broadcast by a foreign radio station. They then reproduced the recording for their colleagues. They have been expelled from the Komsomol and the … Continue reading Extra-judicial persecution, July 1974 (32.18)
Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, 1978 (51.8)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> Moscow. On 25 August 1978, Moscow KGB officials, headed by a senior investigator of the Investigations Department, Captain V. S. Semenyuk, conducted a search of the home of Mark Aronovich MOROZOV (CCE 47.15). The decision to conduct a search was authorized by a military procurator. In the decision it … Continue reading Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, 1978 (51.8)
Extrajudicial persecution (26.13)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> At the beginning of April 1972, at a meeting of the Party Bureau of the poetry section [of the Moscow Writers' Organization], Bulat Okudzhava was asked to publish a letter in the paper Literary Gazette condemning the publication by the Possev publishing-house of an anthology of his works (already … Continue reading Extrajudicial persecution (26.13)
New Functions for the [Security] services (26.10)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> On 2 July the Ninth International Congress of Gerontologists opened in Kiev. An hour before the inauguration of the congress the well-known Soviet biologist Zhores Medvedev, expounded a theory on the causes of ageing which has been received with much interest, was detained and expelled from Kiev. Zh. A. … Continue reading New Functions for the [Security] services (26.10)
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)
Events in Lithuania, March 1977 (44.22)
<< No 44 : 16 March 1977 >> On 13-15 September 1976 in the Lithuanian Supreme Court the case of Genrikas Klimaškauskas and Zigmas Širvinskas under Article 199-1 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code (corresponding to Article 190-1 of the Russian Code) was heard in closed session. Klimaškauskas and Širvinskas were arrested on 13 February 1976 … Continue reading Events in Lithuania, March 1977 (44.22)
The expulsion of V. Voinovich, Spring 1974 (32.17-2)
from the USSR Writers’ Union. A meeting of the bureau of the prose section was arranged several times and cancelled for lack of a quorum: the majority of bureau members failed to appear “because of illness”. The meeting eventually took place on 30 January 1974. Georgy Radov was in the chair. He made a brief … Continue reading The expulsion of V. Voinovich, Spring 1974 (32.17-2)
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