<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> 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 to answer his questions. At the end of … Continue reading The Persecution of Believers, December 1978 (51.15)
Tag: Baptists*
Baptists and Evangelical Christians
News in Brief, July 1973 (29.11)
<<No 29 : 31 July 1973>> 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 (46.17)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> 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 political prisoners in the history … Continue reading Letters and statements (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. 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 town … 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
