«No 58 : November 1980» From 16 to 18 September the Kalinin Regional Court, presided over by Judge A.N. Kiselyova, heard the case of Josif Getselevich DYADKIN (b. 1928), who was arrested on 25 April (CCE 56.13) and Sergei Maximovich GORBACHEV (b. 1952) arrested on 5 June (CCE 57.9). Both were charged under Article 190-1 … Continue reading Dyadkin & Gorbachev’s trial, September 1980 (58.20)
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Samizdat Update, May 1977 (45.20)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> [1] M. I. Kukobaka – “Détente and the Defence of Human Rights are Inseparable” (3 April 1977, 9 pp) The author criticizes those Western politicians who consider that President Carter’s human rights policy is prejudicial to détente (‘dangerous illusions’) and maintains that the best guarantee for the observance of … Continue reading Samizdat Update, May 1977 (45.20)
Pre-Trial Investigations, August 1980 (57.9)
<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> The Yakunin-Kapitanchuk-Regelson-Dudko Case. G. Yakunin was arrested on 1 November 1979 (CCE 54.1), L. Regelson on 24 December 1979 (CCE 55) and V. Kapitanchuk on 12 March 1980 (CCE 56). In Moscow, in March 1980, Investigators Kolpakov and Yakovlev (CCE 54) spent a whole day interrogating E. Barabanov (CCE … Continue reading Pre-Trial Investigations, August 1980 (57.9)
The Case of the Explosion on the [Moscow] Underground, March 1979 (52.1)
<<No 52 : 1 March 1979>> On 8 January 1977 an explosion occurred in a Moscow underground train. The authorities immediately tried to link this act of terrorism with dissident activity (CCE 44.16). On 31 January 1979 the following report was published: In the Supreme Court of the USSR.The Judicial Board for Criminal Cases of … Continue reading The Case of the Explosion on the [Moscow] Underground, March 1979 (52.1)
No 58 : November 1980
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Some of the reports in this issue have now been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE No 58, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page. Political trials, Summer and Autumn 1980 Dates of Trials (June-Oct. 1980) MOSCOW [1] … Continue reading No 58 : November 1980
A Chronicle of Current Events 