Political Releases, April 1979 (53.1)

4 April 202128 April 2021

<<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)

In Prisons and Camps, March 1978 (48.10)

28 January 202110 May 2021

A Meeting Before Execution Captain (3rd class) V.M. Sablin, under whose command the Baltic Fleet vessel “Headlong” [Stremitelny] tried to defect to Sweden (CCE 43), was sentenced to be shot. On the eve of his execution, he was granted a 20-minute meeting with his father, a retired colonel. The meeting took place in the presence … Continue reading In Prisons and Camps, March 1978 (48.10)

News in Brief, July 1971 (20.11)

23 March 201612 May 2021

<<No 20 : 2 July 1971>> [1] On 15 May Nikolai Fyodorovich Dragosh (b. 1932), was released from Vladimir Prison. A graduate of Odessa University, he was head-master of a young workers’ school in the Tarutino district (Odessa Region), where he taught mathematics. On 19 May Nikolai Andreyevich Tarnavsky (b. 1940), who was convicted in … Continue reading News in Brief, July 1971 (20.11)

The Leningrad Trial of the “Hijackers”, 15-24 December 1970 (17.6)

«No 17 : 31 December 1970» On 15-24 December 1970, the trial of M.Yu. DYMSHITS E.S. KUZNETSOV Sylva I. ZALMANSON J.M. MENDELEVICH I.I. ZALMANSON Yu.P. FYODOROV A.G. MURZHENKO A.A. ALTMAN L.G. KHNOKH B.S. PENSON and M. A. BODNYA was held in the Leningrad City Court The court consisted of: N. A. Yermakov, chairman of the … Continue reading The Leningrad Trial of the “Hijackers”, 15-24 December 1970 (17.6)

News in brief, May to October 1968 (4.7)

22 September 201327 April 2021

<<No 4 : 31 October 1968>> [1] In May and June 1968 the Supreme Court of the RSFSR considered the appeals of the Leningrad members of the All-Russian Social-Christian Union (CCE 1.6). The sentences on all those convicted were confirmed. Ogurtsov, sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, and Sado, sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment, will, according … Continue reading News in brief, May to October 1968 (4.7)