The oldest human rights group in the Soviet Union, with members from Moscow, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, the Action Group began its activities in 1969 by appealing, over the head of the Soviet government, to the UN Human Rights Commission. Its formal existence ended with the arrest and imprisonment in 1979 of Tatyana Velikanova. * To … Continue reading Action Group for Defence of Human Rights in USSR
Category: Protests
Vadim Delaunay (1947-1983)
<< Obituaries >> * One of the eight who demonstrated on Red Square (25 August 1968) against the invasion of Czechoslovaka, Vadim DELAUNAY would have been 73 on 22 December 2020. He died in Paris in 1983.
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