<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> Vladimir Prison On 19 March 1978, at the end of his 5-year sentence, Bagrat Shakhverdyan began serving a 2-year period of exile. On 20 April he was transferred to the village of Chulakkurgan (Suzaksky district, Chimkent Region) in the Kazakh SSR. His exile ends in January 1980. He is working … Continue reading In the Prisons and Camps (49.8)
Category: Hunger strikes
Moroz Continues his Hunger Strike: December 1974 (33.9)
Valentyn Moroz is continuing the hunger strike he began on 1 July 1974 (CCE 32.12). * Valentin Yakovlevich MOROZ was born on 15 April 1936. In 1958 he graduated from the History Faculty of Lvov University and from 1958 to 1964, Moroz taught history at a school. In September 1964 he became a lecturer at … Continue reading Moroz Continues his Hunger Strike: December 1974 (33.9)
The Psychiatric Diagnosis of Moroz: May 1976 (40.7)
On 1 June 1976, Valentyn MOROZ should have been transferred to a labour camp after six years in Vladimir Prison (CCE 17.2). Since March that year Raisa Moroz had received no letters from her husband. In answer to many inquiries the prison governor informed her that V. Moroz had been sent to “a medical institution” … Continue reading The Psychiatric Diagnosis of Moroz: May 1976 (40.7)
The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)
Vesti iz SSSR, 1986 (22/23-1, 15 December). On 8 December 1986 Anatoly MARCHENKO (b. 1938), a political prisoner for many years, died in the maximum-security Chistopol Prison (Tatarstan). For several months prior to his death, he had been on hunger strike, started on 8 August 1986 (1986: 17-7, 15 September). Official reports of his death … Continue reading The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)
Vladimir Bukovsky, 1942-2019
Belebei (USSR), 30 December 1942 — Cambridge (UK), 27 October 2019. Vladimir BUKOVSKY died of cardiac arrest in Addenbrookes Hospital, in Cambridge, England at 9:30 pm (Greenwich Mean Time) on Sunday, 27 October 2019. He was 76. His health had been poor in recent years. After his expulsion from the USSR in December 1976, he … Continue reading Vladimir Bukovsky, 1942-2019
Civil Protest in Russia, yesterday and today (16 May, Glasgow)
Repressive policies, political prisonersand trends in non-violent resistance Speaker: Elena SANNIKOVA in Russian with interpretation ♦ 5 to 6.45 pm, Thursday, 16 May at Main Seminar Room, Central and East European Studies, Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow (Gilmorehill campus) ♦ Over the past 10 years, the level of repression has been steadily rising in Russia. … Continue reading Civil Protest in Russia, yesterday and today (16 May, Glasgow)
No 33 : 10 December 1974
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES A few of the reports in this issue have been digitised. To read the other items use page numbers for the pdf version (see below) given to the right of each report in this Contents page. (1) Political Prisoner's Day in the USSR [62] … Continue reading No 33 : 10 December 1974
No 39 : 12 March 1976
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE USSR CONTINUES A few of the reports in this issue have been digitised. To read the other items use page numbers for the pdf version (see below) given to the right of each report in this Contents page. obituary (1) Grigory Podyapolsky [94] (2) IN THE CAMPS … Continue reading No 39 : 12 March 1976
A Chronicle of Current Events 