<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> Orthodox Christians; Pentecostals; Baptists; Jehovah's Witnesses; Adventists * ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS On 2 July the Deputy Head of the Smolensk KGB ‘chatted’ for an hour and a half with T.N. Shchipkova (CCE 49) about the journal Community [Obshchina] (CCE 49 and “Samizdat Update” in this issue, CCE 51.21), Shchipkova refused … Continue reading The Persecution of Believers, Dec. 1978 (51.15)
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Baptists and Evangelical Christians
News in Brief, July 1973 (29.11)
<<No 29 : 31 July 1973>> [1] Irina Kristi, Tatyana Velikanova, 0lga Joffe, Irina Kaplun, Ludmila Kardasevich, Yury Kiselev, Malva Landa, Sergei Khodorovich, Tatyana Khodorovich and Nadezhda Shatunovskaya have sent a letter to R.A. Rudenko, Procurator-General of the USSR. It concerns a violation committed by the Moscow City Procurator’s Office with respect to S.G. Myuge … Continue reading News in Brief, July 1973 (29.11)
Discussion of the Draft [1977] Constitution, pt 2 (47.16)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» The third and fourth issues of the bulletin Concerning the Draft Constitution of the USSR (for issues 1 and 2 see CCE 46.18), include the letter by Mark Popovsky mentioned in CCE 46, another letter by Leonard Ternovsky, letters from Orion Kvachevsky, Larisa Bogoraz, Yury Grimm, Yury Sergeyev, Yevgeny … Continue reading Discussion of the Draft [1977] Constitution, pt 2 (47.16)
Letters and Statements, August 1977 (46.17)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> [1] The New Soviet Constitution (56 signatures) “To the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. To the Supreme Soviet of the USSR” (2 June 1977). “… In connection with the imminent adoption of a new Constitution, we call on the Soviet government to declare the first general amnesty for … Continue reading Letters and Statements, August 1977 (46.17)
The Persecution of Believers, 1978 (49.14)
<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> Pentecostals, Baptists, "From the pages of the Soviet Press" Pentecostals In March, the Muscovite Anatoly Vlasov (CCEs 46, 47) sent a statement to the KGB attached to the Council of Ministers of the Belorussian SSR, demanding the return of his property (13 objects), confiscated from him during a search on … Continue reading The Persecution of Believers, 1978 (49.14)
The Trial of Georgy Vins, 27-31 January 1975 (35.3)
KIEV The court building was guarded by a detachment of police. Entrance was by special pass only. A group of religious believers were pushed back to the other side of the street. Georgy Vins, 1928-1998 The defendant was Georgy Petrovich VINS (b. 1928), Secretary of the Council of Churches of Evangelical Christians and Baptists (CCECB). … Continue reading The Trial of Georgy Vins, 27-31 January 1975 (35.3)
Persecution of Believers (2), March 1978 (CCE 48.16)
[3] Pentecostalists and [4] Baptists 3. PENTECOSTALISTS In 1973 Pentecostalist A.V. Chertkova (b. 1927), was sent to a psychiatric hospital. Anna Chertkova During the course of several years Chertkova had been trying to obtain accommodation in Alma-Ata [Kazakh SSR]. She did not manage to get either a room or a place in a hostel. The … Continue reading Persecution of Believers (2), March 1978 (CCE 48.16)
No 41 : 3 August 1976
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Only a few of the reports in this issue has been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE Nos 40-42, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page. (1) Suspension of Case Against Mikhail Naritsa [69], Jelgava (Latvian SSR) (2) … Continue reading No 41 : 3 August 1976
A Chronicle of Current Events 