<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> At the end of May Vasyl Stus (CCEs 44-48) received an officially registered telegram saying that his father (aged 87) was near death. To his request for permission to travel to his father (in Donetsk) Stus was given a refusal. A. D. Sakharov and the exiles V. Chornovil, S. … Continue reading In exile, 1978 (51.10)
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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)
Extrajudicial Persecution (51.18)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> From 1957 to 1963 Revolt Pimenov (b. 1931) served six years for “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” (CCE 15.3). In 1964 he defended his thesis for a master’s degree in mathematics, and in 1969 his doctoral thesis. Before the latter could be ratified, in the summer of 1970, Pimenov was … Continue reading Extrajudicial Persecution (51.18)
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