<<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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Александр Гинзбург
Ginzburg and Marchenko under surveillance, 1974 (34.14)
<<No 34 : 31 December 1974>> ALEXANDER GINZBURG As reported in CCE 32.18, the former political prisoner Alexander Ilych Ginzburg, released in January 1972 and placed under administrative surveillance from February until August 1972, was informed on 11 April 1974 that he would be subjected to another six-month period of surveillance. Alexander Ginzburg, 1936-2002 The … Continue reading Ginzburg and Marchenko under surveillance, 1974 (34.14)
Political Releases, April 1979 (53.1)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> Pardons. On 15 June 1970, a group of people who were planning to hijack an aeroplane and escape abroad in it were arrested in Leningrad. In December of the same year, they were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, and on two of them, Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov, … Continue reading Political Releases, April 1979 (53.1)
The Ginzburg-Orlov Case, Feb-May 1977 (45.4)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> Officially this is two separate cases: Case No. 6, conducted by the Kaluga KGB against A. I. Ginzburg (investigator Lt.-Colonel Oselkov) and Case No. 7, conducted by the Moscow KGB against Yu. F. Orlov. * On 4 February 1977, the day after the arrest of Alexander Ginzburg [CCE 44.3], … Continue reading The Ginzburg-Orlov Case, Feb-May 1977 (45.4)
Reprisals against the Helsinki Groups (44.2)
<< No 44 : 16 March 1977 >> Searches in Moscow (2.1) The authorities began their attack on the Helsinki Groups at the end of December 1976 with searches at the homes of a member of the Moscow group, Vladimir Slepak, and members of the Ukrainian group, Nikolai Rudenko, Oles Berdnik, Ivan Kandyba, Lev Lukyanenko … Continue reading Reprisals against the Helsinki Groups (44.2)
Ginzburg’s appeal, August 1978 (50.3)
<<No. 50, November 1978>> I consider that my sentence is unjust, that it should be revoked, and the case sent for retrial, for the following reasons: 1. One-sidedness of the pre-trial and court investigations, manifested in the following ways: 1.1 persons whose testimony had a significant bearing on the case were not questioned. I and … Continue reading Ginzburg’s appeal, August 1978 (50.3)
The Trial of Ginzburg, 10-13 July 1978 (50.3)
<<No. 50 : November 1978>> From 10 to 13 July the Kaluga Regional Court heard the case of Alexander Ginzburg, charged under Article 70 part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code. The composition of the court was: Presiding Judge A. I. Sidorkov and People’s Assessors S. M. Brandt and N. P. Parshina; the prosecutor was … Continue reading The Trial of Ginzburg, 10-13 July 1978 (50.3)
The Helsinki Groups under Investigation (49.6)
<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> THE CASE OF GINZBURG On 28 April 1978, Alexander Ginzburg and his lawyer E. A. Reznikova were ready to sign the record to the effect that they had finished studying the case, when it suddenly transpired that the pre-trial investigation, which should have finished before 3 May (CCE 48.2) was … Continue reading The Helsinki Groups under Investigation (49.6)
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