Constitution Day - Then and Now This Saturday, 12 December 2015, demonstrators in Moscow wishing to take part in a protest on Pushkin Square faced rough treatment from the police. It's part of a long tradition, dating back to the mid-1960s. Then Soviet dissidents first pointed to the glaring discrepancies between what the Constitution (of … Continue reading Traditional Days of Protest
Category: Judicial repression
Investigation of Bukovsky’s Case, Sept 1971 (21.6)
«No 21 : 11 September 1971» On 29 June N.I. Bukovskaya submitted a protest to R. A. Rudenko, USSR Procurator-General, against the violation of the right to a defence in the case of her son Vladimir Bukovsky (arrest, CCE 19.1). She was protesting about the unexplained refusal of the Moscow City Procurator to admit a … Continue reading Investigation of Bukovsky’s Case, Sept 1971 (21.6)
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