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Category: Arrests

Trials of Recent Years: the UNF case, 1967 (17.7)

19 October 201416 November 2024

<<No 17 : 31 December 1970>> Perhaps the Ukrainian KGB's most important case in 1967 [1] was that of the "Ukrainian National Front" (UNF). * ARRESTS In July 1966 the Ivano-Frankovsk Region KGB arrested miner Nikolai Kachur from Donetsk on a charge of circulating the illegal UNF journal Liberty and the Motherland. In March 1967 … Continue reading Trials of Recent Years: the UNF case, 1967 (17.7)

US Citizenship, Soviet Police & KGB, December 1970 (17.9)

9 August 201412 April 2025

<<No 17 : 31 December 1970>> On 23 July 1970 Leonid Rigerman (b. 1940), visited the US embassy in Moscow. He was born in the USA [1] into an American family, which gives him and his mother Esther Rigerman grounds for taking American citizenship. * EMBASSY On 8 September 1970, after completing the documents necessary … Continue reading US Citizenship, Soviet Police & KGB, December 1970 (17.9)

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ARTICLE 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1948 UN General Assembly)

Top Posts & Pages

  • Official Documents, March 1975 (35.15)
    Official Documents, March 1975 (35.15)
  • Psychiatric Hospitals, January-February 1971 (18.1)
    Psychiatric Hospitals, January-February 1971 (18.1)
  • Kazan SPH, October 1969 (10.10)
    Kazan SPH, October 1969 (10.10)
  • The Yakubovich Case, October 1969 (10.8)
    The Yakubovich Case, October 1969 (10.8)
  • Persecution of a Religious Seminar, Dec 1976 (43.9)
    Persecution of a Religious Seminar, Dec 1976 (43.9)
  • Events in Ukraine, Dec 1979-April 1980 (56.15)
    Events in Ukraine, Dec 1979-April 1980 (56.15)
  • The Trial of Gorbanevskaya, July 1970 (15.1)
    The Trial of Gorbanevskaya, July 1970 (15.1)
  • Jewish movement to leave for Israel, April 1971 (19.7)
    Jewish movement to leave for Israel, April 1971 (19.7)
  • The Arrest of Revolt Pimenov, July 1970 (15.3)
    The Arrest of Revolt Pimenov, July 1970 (15.3)
  • The Metro Explosion Trial, March 1979 (52.1)
    The Metro Explosion Trial, March 1979 (52.1)

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