«No 65 : 31 December 1982» On 18 August 1982, the Moscow City Court examined the case of Gleb Pavlovsky (b. 1950) who was arrested on 6 April 1982 (CCE 64.3). Pavlovsky was charged with offences under Article 190-1 (RSFSR Criminal Code: “Dissemination of fabrications known to be false, which defame the Soviet political and … Continue reading Pavlovsky Trial, Aug ’82 (65.1)
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 … Continue reading “The Freight & the Groove” (2000)
