<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> [1] Ernst Orlovsky: ‘Self-interview’ (1979, 10 pp). 1. Do you consider yourself a dissident? Who are dissidents? What do they want? Yes, I consider myself a dissident. ... a dissident is a person who disagrees with some or other important aspect of the political and/or economic system in the … Continue reading Samizdat Update, Aug 1979 (53.31)
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Miscellaneous Reports, Aug 1979 (53.29)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> According to Information Bulletin No. 4 of the Free Inter-trade Association of Working People (FIAWP), which came out in May-June, following a ‘talk’ at the KGB (CCE 51, ‘FIAWP’) under threat of imprisonment. Ivanchenko, who has two dependent sons born in 1975 and 1978 and a wife, who is … Continue reading Miscellaneous Reports, Aug 1979 (53.29)
Miscellaneous Reports, March 1979 (52.15-2)
One More Deported National Group The Khamshels (or Khemshins) [note 17] are a section of the Armenian people who adopted Islam at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. They chiefly inhabited the south-west Regions of Georgia from Adzharia to the south of Batumi (the district of Gonio) and the lower … Continue reading Miscellaneous Reports, March 1979 (52.15-2)
Samizdat Update, March 1979 (52.17)
<<No 52 : 1 March 1979>> [Anon:] ‘Some Aspects of the Problem of Defining Security Risks in the USSR’ (6 pp.) In an examination of the restrictions on exit from the USSR applying to individuals who have access to secret information, the anonymous author notes that in our country information which on principle cannot be … Continue reading Samizdat Update, March 1979 (52.17)
The Jewish Movement, Dec 1976 (43.12)
<< No. 43 : 31 December 1976 >> The Struggle for Emigration On 19 September a group of Jewish ‘refuseniks’ sent the following statement: To the Moscow City Soviet Executive Committee, Department of Internal Affairs, OVIR (Copies to: the USSR Supreme Soviet and the CPSU Central Committee) STATEMENT We have been handing in documents applying … Continue reading The Jewish Movement, Dec 1976 (43.12)
The Kochubievsky case, February 1968 (6.2)
<<No 6 : 28 February 1969>> At the beginning of December 1968 a thirty-year-old radio engineer, Boris Kochubievsky, was arrested in Kiev. Boris Kochubievsky, b. 1936 In 1967 he spoke at a lecture on the international situation given at the radio factory where he worked, argued with the lecturer, and expressed his disagreement with the … Continue reading The Kochubievsky case, February 1968 (6.2)
News in Brief, Sept 1975 (37.13)
<<No 37 : 30 September 1975>> KIEV. Yury Timofeyevich Litvin, arrested at the end of 1974 or the beginning of 1975, has been sentenced by the Kiev Regional Court to four years’ imprisonment, apparently under the Article relating to ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda’. He was formerly imprisoned from the middle 1950s until 1965, under Articles … Continue reading News in Brief, Sept 1975 (37.13)
Samizdat Update, April-August 1980 (57.25)
<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> [1] A. Belyakov: “The Russian Tradition” (10 pages) An article on drunkenness, largely based on official statistics. [2] A. Belyakov: “Some Aspects of Our Economy and the Problems of Automating Management” (39 pages) This article is divided into two sections. Section one describes the introduction of automatic control systems … Continue reading Samizdat Update, April-August 1980 (57.25)