No 28 : 31 December 1972 28.7 News in brief AI - According to the samizdat "Register of People Convicted in the 1960's" (item 70) Nikolayenko was sentenced in 1969 by the Chernigov Regional Court to 5 years for "anti-Soviet agitation". As 25 year sentences have not been imposed since 1960 it would therefore appear … Continue reading Commentary No 28

<<No 7 : 30 June 1969>> 7.1 THE TRIAL OF GOMER BAEV This probably refers to Nina Senichkina, a researcher at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism attached to the Central Committee of the CPSU, and her article "A fraternal union of free nations", Kommunist Tadzhikistana, 30 December 1967, p. 2. 7.2 THE ARREST OF IVAN YAKHIMOVICH … Continue reading Commentary No 7 (June 1969)

<<No 2, 30 June 1968>> 2.2 -- THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THOSE WHO SIGNED LETTERS [1] In addition to the other repressive measures taken in Novosibirsk, the central press weighed in, and Akademgorodok's famous art gallery was closed down. The permanent pictures were taken to Moscow and buried in the basement of the Tretyakov Museum. Novosibirsk's … Continue reading Commentary No 2 (June 1968)

<<No 1, 30 April 1968> 1.1 THE GALANSKOV-GINZBURG TRIAL The accused [1] Yury Galanskov had long been an active dissenter (see his writings of 1961). In 1965 he staged a one-man demonstration outside the US embassy in Moscow in protest against the American intervention in the Dominican Republic. [For a more extensive biography, CCE 28.1.] … Continue reading Commentary No 1 (April 1968)