<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> Volkov and Golubev, students at the Latvian State University (physics and maths faculty) listened to and recorded on tape some excerpts from Solzhenitsyn’s book Gulag Archipelago, broadcast by a foreign radio station. They then reproduced the recording for their colleagues. They have been expelled from the Komsomol and the … Continue reading Extra-judicial persecution, July 1974 (32.18)
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Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, 1978 (51.8)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> Moscow. On 25 August 1978, Moscow KGB officials, headed by a senior investigator of the Investigations Department, Captain V. S. Semenyuk, conducted a search of the home of Mark Aronovich MOROZOV (CCE 47.15). The decision to conduct a search was authorized by a military procurator. In the decision it … Continue reading Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, 1978 (51.8)
The Trial of Konovalikhin, August 1978 (51.5)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> On 23 August, in Sovetsk, a session of the Kaliningrad Regional Court presided over by I. I. Kapturov started examining the case of Vadim Konovalikhin (CCE 49.15), charged under Article 190-1 of the Russian Criminal Code. The state prosecutor was Deputy Regional Procurator V. P. Sizov; there was a … Continue reading The Trial of Konovalikhin, August 1978 (51.5)
The Trial of Maramzin, 19-21 February 1975 (35.4)
<<No 35 : 31 March 1975>> From 19 to 21 February 1975 Vladimir Rafailovich MARAMZIN, a prose writer, a member of the trade union group among the writers at the Leningrad branch of the Soviet Writer publishing house, was on trial at the Leningrad City Court. The presiding judge was Isakova, the people’s assessors were … Continue reading The Trial of Maramzin, 19-21 February 1975 (35.4)
Items from the [Soviet] press, March 1972 (24.7)
<<No 24 : 5 March 1972>> [SARATOV] On 4 February Kommunist, the Saratov Region newspaper, published an article by V. Proletkin entitled “In the pillory”. The article mentions twenty persons by name. Four of them are merely said to have visited a “black market” in books. Ten of them are said to have duplicated and … Continue reading Items from the [Soviet] press, March 1972 (24.7)
Kharkov: the trial of Nedobora and Ponomaryov, March 1970 (13.4)
«No 13 : 30 April 1970» On 10 and 11 March, two engineers, Vladimir Vladimirovich Ponomaryov (b. 1933; father of a five year old boy) and Vladislav Georgiyevich Nedobora (b. 1933; father of two children) were put on trial in the Kharkov Region Court. They were accused, under Article 187-1 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, … Continue reading Kharkov: the trial of Nedobora and Ponomaryov, March 1970 (13.4)
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