<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> [1] On 12 September 1977 Major Ilyukhin, Deputy Head of the Vladimir OVIR, informed Viktor Nekipelov, a member 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 — there’s nothing for you … Continue reading The Right to Leave, December 1978 (51.16)
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In exile, 1978 (51.10)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> At the end of May Vasyl Stus (CCEs 44-48) received an officially registered telegram saying that his father (aged 87) was near death. To his request for permission to travel to his father (in Donetsk) Stus was given a refusal. A. D. Sakharov and the exiles V. Chornovil, S. … Continue reading In exile, 1978 (51.10)
The Trial of Begun, May-June 1977 (46.2)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> On 6 May the trial of Josif Begun, arrested on 3 March (CCE 44), was put off until 27 May, but in fact it opened on 18 May (CCE 45), The pattern was then repeated: on 18 May the trial was put off until 8 June (CCE 45 erred … Continue reading The Trial of Begun, May-June 1977 (46.2)
Mustafa Dzhemilev at Liberty, March 1978 (48.14)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> On 30 November 1977, MUSTAFA DZHEMILEV (CCE 47) was taken from a camp in the Far Eastern Primorsky Region (Krai) by special transport (by air, in handcuffs) to Tashkent in Central Asia, where some of his relatives live. On 22 December, at the end of his term, he was released. … Continue reading Mustafa Dzhemilev at Liberty, March 1978 (48.14)
Arrests, Searches, Interrogations: Nov. 1977 to Feb. 1978 (48.8)
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: Nov. 1977 to Feb. 1978 (48.8)
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 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 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)
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