«Issue 7 : 30 April 1969» EIGHTEEN ITEMS [1] On 15 April in Riga a student, Ilya Rips, tried to immolate himself. Under the Freedom Obelisk, set up when Latvia was independent, he unfurled a banner with the words FREEDOM FOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA. A hostile crowd gathered around him. The youth threw off his overcoat, under … Continue reading News in brief, April 1969 (7.13)
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News in Brief, May-October 1968 (4.7)
<<No 4 : 31 October 1968>> TEN ITEMS [1] In May and June 1968 the RFSR Supreme Court considered the appeals of Leningrad members of the All-Russian Social-Christian Union (CCE 1.6). The sentences on those convicted were confirmed. According to their sentences, Ogurtsov (15 years) and Sado (13 years) will spend the first five years … Continue reading News in Brief, May-October 1968 (4.7)
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