<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> Directive No. 37 New Rules concerning internal order (mentioned in CCE 48.10), were brought into effect on 15 March 1978 by Decree No. 37 of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, issued in December 1977. The Decree carries the stamp of the USSR Procurator-General. Like the former rules, introduced … Continue reading In the Prisons and Camps, December 1978 (51.9)
Category: Political prisoners
In the Prisons and Camps, December 1973 (30.8)
<<No 30 : 31 December 1973>> Alexander Fyodorovich SERGIYENKO [Ukr. Serhiyenko], sentenced by the Kiev Regional Court under Article 62 of the Ukrainian criminal code to 7 years in strict-regime camps and 3 years of exile (see CCE 25.2 and CCE 27.1), has been confined in the Perm camps ([penal] institution VS-389/36) since December 1972. … Continue reading In the Prisons and Camps, December 1973 (30.8)
News in Brief, July 1973 (29.11)
<<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)
Trials in Ukraine, January-April 1973 (29.5)
<<No 29 : 31 July 1973>> 1. Ivan Dzyuba, 11-16 March 1973 From 11 to 16 March the Kiev Regional Court heard the case of the critic and literary historian Ivan Mikhailovich Dzyuba,[note 1] indicted under Article 62 of the Ukrainian criminal code (Article 70 of the RSFSR code). Representatives of the institutions where Dzyuba … Continue reading Trials in Ukraine, January-April 1973 (29.5)
Letters and Statements, July 1974 (32.22)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> In this section those statements from the many available to the Chronicle which have not been sufficiently reflected in other sections of this issue are either summarized and quoted in extracts or presented in full. (1) Academician Andrei Sakharov [Note 1] “To the General Secretary of the CPSU Central … Continue reading Letters and Statements, July 1974 (32.22)
In the Prisons and Camps, 1982 (64.13-1)
<< No 64 : 30 June 1982 >> The Trial of Vasily Sichko On 4 January 1982, the people's court of Pridneprovsk district in the town of Cherkassy, with A.L. Kulchitsky presiding, heard the case of Vasily Petrovich SICHKO (b. 1956), charged under Article 229-6 pt. 1 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code (“Possessing Drugs for … Continue reading In the Prisons and Camps, 1982 (64.13-1)
In the prisons and camps (27.5)
Some inmates of Vladimir Prison <<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> There follows a list of some inmates of Vladimir Prison No 2 (address: 600020, Vladimir, [penal] institution OD-I/ST-2), convicted under articles of the Criminal Code relating to "especially dangerous State crimes”. [Surnames in Russian alphabetical order, see CCE 46.23]. * Anatoly Avakov – Article … Continue reading In the prisons and camps (27.5)
Letters and Documents (26.15)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> In May 1972 there appeared in samizdat an open letter, whose authors are concerned about the fate of K. Lyubarsky, V. Chornovil, I. Svitlychny. D. Shumuk and L. Plyushch (see CCE 24.3 and CCE 25.2), who were arrested in January 1972, and others. The letter talks of the protracted … Continue reading Letters and Documents (26.15)
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