MAGADAN. At the beginning of November 1977 Gennady Bogolyubov CCE 40, 43, 46) was arrested. MOSCOW. On 22 November 1977 Vasily Nikitenkov (CCEs 19, 24, 35) was detained in the street by KGB employees and taken to the Moscow KGB headquarters. There they questioned him about his acquaintance with Pyotr Starchik (Nikitenkov and Starchik were … Continue reading Arrests, Searches, Interrogations: November 1977 to February 1978 (48.8)
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The Death of Vladimir Shelkov (1896-1980)
On 27 January 1980, Vladimir Andreyevich SHELKOV (CCE 55), Chairman of the All-Union Church of True and Free Seventh-Day Adventists, died at the age of 84 in a strict-regime camp in Yakutia [Soviet Far East] where he was serving a sentence. Shelkov was the third person to be appointed chairman of the Church (in 1949); … Continue reading The Death of Vladimir Shelkov (1896-1980)
The Camp Trial of Andrei Amalrik, 18 July 1973 (29.7)
<<No 29 : 31 July 1973>> Andrei AMALRIK was due to complete his 3-year prison sentence on 21 May 1973. On 22 May his wife, Gyuzel Makudinova, was informed that the Procurator’s Office of Magadan had instituted new proceedings under Article 190-1 of the RSFSR Criminal Code. This was Amalrik’s second indictment under Article 190-1. … Continue reading The Camp Trial of Andrei Amalrik, 18 July 1973 (29.7)
The Trial of Vladimir Dremlyuga, August 1971 (21.1)
<<No 21 : 11 September 1971>> Yakut Autonomous Republic [Soviet Far East]. The trial of Vladimir Dremlyuga, indicted for a second time under Article 190-1 [of the Russian Criminal Code], took place in late August at an assize session of the Yakut Supreme Court in the town of Lensk, on penal institution territory. The court … Continue reading The Trial of Vladimir Dremlyuga, August 1971 (21.1)
The Trial of Pavel Bashkirov, 7-8 October 1976 (43.4)
«No 43 : 31 December 1976» The Chronicle can now correct and expand on certain details in the short report (CCE 42) of the court proceedings of 7-8 October in the Supreme Court of the Yakut ASSR, Judge Lukin presiding. There were about fifteen relatives and acquaintances of Pavel Bashkirov in the courtroom, together with … Continue reading The Trial of Pavel Bashkirov, 7-8 October 1976 (43.4)
News in Brief, August 1970 (15.10)
«No 15 : 31 August 1970» [1] Pyotr Grigoryevich Grigorenko is still being held (CCE 14.2) in the Psychiatric Hospital in Chernyakhovsk [Kaliningrad Region]. On 3 July his wife Z.M. Grigorenko, his son Andrei and his son's fiancée travelled there to visit him. The head of the hospital, Major Belokopytov, refused to allow the visit … Continue reading News in Brief, August 1970 (15.10)