<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> Since the beginning of 1978, the activity of the administrative authorities aimed at classifying a number of writers living in the USSR as ‘parasites' or ‘persons leading a parasitical way of life' (the best known of the previous cases of this type was the Leningrad trial of Joseph Brodsky in … Continue reading Writer-Parasites, March 1978 (48.19)
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Sakharov’s Friends & Enemies, December 1975 (38.1)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> On 9 October 1975, the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament awarded the annual Nobel Prize for "Activities contributing to Peace" to Andrei Dmitrievich SAKHAROV (aged 54). * [1] Sakharov heard that he had won the Peace Prize from foreign journalists on the evening of 9 October. "I hope … Continue reading Sakharov’s Friends & Enemies, December 1975 (38.1)
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