<<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 Arrest of Revolt Pimenov, July 1970 (15.3)
«No 15 : 31 August 1970» In July 1970 Doctor of sciences Revolt Ivanovich PIMENOV, a research officer at the Mathematical Institute, was arrested In Leningrad. (For the search of Pimenov's flat on 18 April, see CCE 13.10, items 17 & 18.) * Pimenov (b. 1931) graduated from the mathematics and mechanics faculty of Leningrad … Continue reading The Arrest of Revolt Pimenov, July 1970 (15.3)
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)
The trial of Valeria Novodvorskaya, 16 March 1970 (13.2)
«No 13 : 30 April 1970 » The trial of Valeria Novodvorskaya took place on 16 March in the Moscow Region Court. (Born in 1951, she is a second-year student of the Institute of Foreign Languages [CCE 11.7]). Charged under article 70 of the Russian Criminal Code (anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda), she was accused of … Continue reading The trial of Valeria Novodvorskaya, 16 March 1970 (13.2)
Political trials around the USSR, February 1970 (12.4)
«No 12 : 28 February 1970» DNEPROPETROVSK (Ukraine) From 19 to 27 January the trial of I. G. Sokulsky, N. G. Kulchinsky and V. V. Savchenko, accused under Article 62 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code (which corresponds to Article 70 of the Russian Code), was held in Dnepropetrovsk. The judge was Tubelts, the assessors were … Continue reading Political trials around the USSR, February 1970 (12.4)
Arrests among Moscow students, December 1969 (11.7)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» BAKHMIN, KAPLUN, JOFFE On 20 November 1969, the KGB arrested Vyacheslav Bakhmin, a fourth-year student of the physics and chemistry department of the Moscow Institute of Physics Technology. Bakhmin is twenty-two years old, and was a pupil at the Kolmogorov boarding school (No. 18). He entered the Institute in … Continue reading Arrests among Moscow students, December 1969 (11.7)
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