ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES None of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE 34-36, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page (1) The Arrest of Sergei Kovalyov [6] (2) The Trial of Mikhail Kheifets (Leningrad) … Continue reading No 34 : 31 December 1974
Category: Biography (A-Z)
No 35 : 31 March 1975
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Few of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE Nos 34-36, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page *** (1) The Situation of Leonid Plyushch [58] (2) The Case of Anatoly … Continue reading No 35 : 31 March 1975
No 51 : 1 December 1978
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES None of the reports in this issue have yet been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE No 51, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page *** TRIALS (1) The trial of Robert Nazaryan (Yerevan) [8] (2) The trial … Continue reading No 51 : 1 December 1978
“The freight and the groove” (2000)
Prisoners of an old regime ♣ Marjorie Farquharson ♣ (July 2000) When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in previous decades seemed to be merely a dry-run. Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939-1993) became Georgia’s first freely-elected President after the Soviet Union collapsed, with a mandate … Continue reading “The freight and the groove” (2000)
Obituary: Grigory Podyapolsky, 9 March 1976 (39.1)
<< No 39 : 12 March 1976 >> On the night of 8/9 March 1976, Grigory Sergeyevich PODYAPOLSKY, a scientist and poet, one of those who has fought openly and courageously for human rights in the USSR, died of a brain haemorrhage in a Saratov hospital. Grigory Podyapolsky had an exceptional, outsize and vivid personality. … Continue reading Obituary: Grigory Podyapolsky, 9 March 1976 (39.1)
«Хроника» возникла самозарождением
"Почти как стихи…" Интервью с Натальей Горбаневской (Париж, 2003). Наталья Евгеньевна ГОРБАНЕВСКАЯ (1936–2013) — поэт, переводчик, журналист. Основатель и первый издатель самиздатского бюллетеня «Хроника текущих событий». Участница «демонстрации семерых» на Красной площади 25 августа 1968. Член Инициативной группы по защите прав человека в СССР. Наталья Евгеньевна, расскажите, как вы оказались в кругу диссидентов? Слово «диссиденты», … Continue reading «Хроника» возникла самозарождением
Obituary: Alexander Tvardovsky, January 1972 (23.10)
«No 23 : 5 January 1972» Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky died on 18 December 1971. The Chronicle considers it suitable to publish the following text as his obituary: There are many ways of killing a poet. The method chosen for Tvardovsky was to take away his offspring, his passion, his journal. The sixteen years of insults … Continue reading Obituary: Alexander Tvardovsky, January 1972 (23.10)
Obituary: Mykhaylo Soroka, July 1971 (20.13)
«No 20 : 2 July 1971» On 17 June Mykhaylo Soroka died suddenly of a heart attack in Dubrovlag, Camp 17-a. Mykhaylo Mykhaylovych Soroka was born in the Ternopol Region in 1911. An architect by profession, he studied in Prague. In 1930 he took part in the activities of the OUN [Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists], … Continue reading Obituary: Mykhaylo Soroka, July 1971 (20.13)
The Trial of Mustafa Dzhemilev, 14-15 April 1976 (40.3)
<<No 40 : 20 May 1976>> MUSTAFA DZHEMILEV (Abduldzhemil) was born in November 1943. During the deportation of May 1944, his family – his mother and her four children (his father was at the front) – ended up in Uzbekistan. In 1966 Mustafa was expelled from the third-year course of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation … Continue reading The Trial of Mustafa Dzhemilev, 14-15 April 1976 (40.3)
Obituaries: Boris Talantov, Nikolai Samsonov, March 1971 (18.12)
«No 18 : 5 March 1971» Boris V. TALANTOV (1903-1971] On 4 January 1971 Boris Vladimirovich Talantov (b. 1903) died in the prison hospital in Kirov [Volga District]. He was arrested on 12 June 1969 and at the beginning of September sentenced under Article 190-1 of the Russian Criminal Code to three years' imprisonment (CCE … Continue reading Obituaries: Boris Talantov, Nikolai Samsonov, March 1971 (18.12)
