<<No 42 : 8 October 1976>> DR SAMKHARADZE On 30 June 1976 medical doctor L. Meladze sent a telegram from Nikolai Samkharadze, a doctor, to L. I. Brezhnev, from the Central Telegraph Office in Moscow. In the telegram Samkharadze asks, not for the first time, that the decision to deprive his brother Beglar of his … Continue reading Events in Georgia, Sept 1975 to July 1976 (42.8)
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The Meskhetian Struggle, Aug 1976 (41.11)
<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> In 1944 300,000 Turks, or Meskhetians, were forcibly deported from Meskhetia (southern Georgia). Up to the present they are forbidden not only to return to their homeland, but also to register their names in their passports as either Turks or Georgians: they are registered as, for example, Azerbaijanis. There … Continue reading The Meskhetian Struggle, Aug 1976 (41.11)