<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> At the end of May Vasyl Stus (CCEs 44-48) received an officially registered telegram saying that his father (aged 87) was near death. To his request for permission to travel to his father (in Donetsk) Stus was given a refusal. A. D. Sakharov and the exiles V. Chornovil, S. … Continue reading In exile, 1978 (51.10)
Category: Exile
The Trial of Bolonkin, August 1978 (51.7)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> On 20 April, 26 days before the completion of his exile, Alexander A. Bolonkin was arrested: in 1976 he completed four years in the camps under Article 70 [pt. 1] of the Russian Criminal Code (see CCE 30.4). * On 6 May 1978, he was taken in handcuffs by … Continue reading The Trial of Bolonkin, August 1978 (51.7)
In Exile (44.19)
<< No 44 : 16 March 1977 >> In February 1977, Julia Okulova-Voznesenskaya (CCE 43) was transported from Leningrad to Vorkuta to serve the 5-year exile prescribed to her by a court. She ended the hunger-strike declared on 21 December at the beginning of February, not long before the transportation. * In January 1977, at … Continue reading In Exile (44.19)
In Exile, April-May 1978 (49.9)
<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> Yakutia. Before Vyacheslav Chomovil’s arrival at his place of exile (CCE 48), the local Party activists were informed that "an Enemy of the People" who had intended to overthrow the Soviet regime would soon be coming to the village. The local population were ordered, if they did not want 'measures … Continue reading In Exile, April-May 1978 (49.9)
In Exile, August 1977 to February 1978 (48.11)
At the beginning of December 1977 MVD Colonel Krivonogov arrived in the Vershino-Shakhtama settlement (Shelopugino district, Chita Region) where Malva Landa (CCE 46.1) was in exile. Not finding Landa, he left. The following morning the district policeman told her that Colonel Krivonogov wanted to talk to her about an amnesty. On this same visit Colonel … Continue reading In Exile, August 1977 to February 1978 (48.11)
A List of Political Prisoners, August 1977 (46.23)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> The Russian Relief Fund for Political Prisoners (CCE 44.3) here gives the names of political prisoners and exiles known to it in mid-August 1977 [N.B. These 275 names exclude those in psychiatric hospitals, and almost all religious prisoners. For more details on the men and women listed here see … Continue reading A List of Political Prisoners, August 1977 (46.23)
Andrei Tverdokhlebov’s Trial, 14-15 April 1976 (40.2)
Andrei Nikolayevich TVERDOKHLEBOV was born in Moscow in 1940; he is a physicist. He was one of the founders of the Human Rights Committee (in December 1972 he left the Committee, CCE 29.11). In September 1973 he founded “Group 73”, together with V. Arkhangelsky, V. Albrekht and I. Korneyev (CCE 30.14, item 7). Andrei Tverdokhlebov, … Continue reading Andrei Tverdokhlebov’s Trial, 14-15 April 1976 (40.2)
Persecution of Believers-1, March 1978 (CCE 48.16)
[1] Catholics in Moldavia; [2] Adventists. CATHOLICS IN MOLDAVIA There are 15,000 Catholics in Moldavia. They are Germans, Poles and Ukrainians. Communities of Catholics exist in Beltsy, Bendery, Tiraspol, Rashkovo, Grigorovka, Andriyashevka and other towns and villages. In the only Catholic chapel open in Moldavia the priest, Vladislav Zavalnyuk, is forbidden to give sermons in … Continue reading Persecution of Believers-1, March 1978 (CCE 48.16)
