<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> [1] On 12 September 1977, the deputy head of the Vladimir City Section for Visas and Registration (OVIR) Major Ilyukhin informed Victor NEKIPELOV of the Moscow Helsinki Group that he had been refused an exit visa: “We consider that you have no reason to visit the State of Israel … Continue reading The Right to Leave, December 1978 (51.16)
Tag: Emigration (Jews)*
Activities of Soviet Jews, June to September 1973 (30.12)
<<No 30 : 31 December 1973>> To protest against the grounds on which they had been forbidden to leave the USSR, seven Moscow scientists met at the home of Alexander Lunts (Moscow, 15 Garibaldi Street, building 2, flat 76) on 10 June 1973 to commence a hunger strike that lasted many days. In denying these … Continue reading Activities of Soviet Jews, June to September 1973 (30.12)
A “reply” by the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, December 1972 (28.8)
to a Letter from 273 Jews <<No 28 : 31 December 1972>> The Chronicle has the texts of two “information bulletins” circulated in Moscow in late December. A condensed summary of the first bulletin is given below. The text of the second is given in full. February 1971 protesters outside the USSR Supreme Soviet [BULLETIN … Continue reading A “reply” by the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, December 1972 (28.8)
“In Honour of Nixon” (26.7)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> The visit of American President Nixon [note 1] to the USSR (22-30 May) was accompanied by some curious activities on the part of the authorities. * From 1 May 1972 onwards, the following were summoned to district police-stations in Moscow: T. S. Khodorovich, a member of the Action Group … Continue reading “In Honour of Nixon” (26.7)
Extra-Judicial Persecution (25.9)
<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> A group of Crimean Tatars has sent a letter to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, the USSR Council of Ministers and the USSR Supreme Soviet, citing numerous facts relating to the local authorities' oppression of Crimean Tatars returning to the Crimea: refusal to register … Continue reading Extra-Judicial Persecution (25.9)
Searches, Interrogations, Arrests, 1972 (27.2)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> (1) On 28 September 1972, a search was carried out at the flat of Yu.A. Shikhanovich [see CCE 24.10 and CCE 25]. Before it had been completed Shikhanovich was presented with a warrant for his arrest. He was driven away, and the search concluded without him, in the presence … Continue reading Searches, Interrogations, Arrests, 1972 (27.2)
The Shcharansky Case (45.5)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> On 18 March, three days after the arrest of A. Shcharansky, 28 activists of the Jewish movement sent a letter to the International Tribunal on the Shtern Case (CCE 44): “We had no time to experience a feeling of relief in connection with the release from prison of Dr … Continue reading The Shcharansky Case (45.5)
The Arrest of Shcharansky, 15 March 1977 (44.9)
<< No 44 : 16 March 1977 >> On 4 March there appeared in Izvestiya (Moscow evening edition) an “Open letter from S. L. Lipavsky” to the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, to the UN and the US Congress, which contained a direct accusation of espionage against Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Lerner. In an … Continue reading The Arrest of Shcharansky, 15 March 1977 (44.9)
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