<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> On 21 August in Moscow City Court the trial took place of Ilya Glezer, charged with "‘the manufacture and dissemination of libellous letters and documents designed to undermine the Soviet State system" (see CCE 24.10 [and CCE 25.10, item 18]). The judge was Bogdanov, the Procurator Funtov and the … Continue reading News in Brief, October 1972 (27.12)
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The Trial of Victor Kapitanchuk, 8-9 October 1980 (58.5)
<<No 58 : November 1980>> On 2 September Tatyana Kapitanchuk telephoned Moscow KGB investigator Levchenko, who was conducting the case against her husband Victor Kapitanchuk, a member of the Christian Committee to Defend Believers' Rights in the USSR (arrested 12 March, CCE 56). She asked him whether he knew what her husband’s opinion was on … Continue reading The Trial of Victor Kapitanchuk, 8-9 October 1980 (58.5)
The Trial of Regelson, 22-24 September 1980 (58.4)
<<No 58 : November 1980>> From 22 to 24 September the Moscow City Court, presided over by Mironov, heard the case of Lev Lvovich Regelson (b. 1939; arrested 24 December 1979, CCE 55.2), a participant in the Christian Seminar, who was charged under Article 70 of the RSFSR Criminal Code. The prosecutor was Assistant Moscow … Continue reading The Trial of Regelson, 22-24 September 1980 (58.4)
The Release of Bukovsky, 18 December 1976 (43.1)
<< No 43 : 31 December 1976 >> In September (?) of this year, the Danish Committee for the Sakharov Hearings proposed to the Soviet and Chilean authorities that they should simultaneously release Vladimir Bukovsky and Luis Corvalan from imprisonment. * V. Bukovsky was arrested in March 1971 and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and … Continue reading The Release of Bukovsky, 18 December 1976 (43.1)
P.G. Grigorenko’s prison diary, February 1970 (12.1)
«No 12 : 28 February 1970» The Chronicle has a copy of the diary written by P.G. Grigorenko during the period of imprisonment before his trial. It covers the time from his arrival in Tashkent and his arrest until the second forensic psychiatric diagnosis, inclusive. We reproduce the contents of this diary in condensed form … Continue reading P.G. Grigorenko’s prison diary, February 1970 (12.1)
The deportation of Solzhenitsyn, 13 February 1974 (32.1)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> On 13 February 1974, after a prolonged and large-scale persecution campaign in the press, Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was deported from the Soviet Union. The immediate cause was the publication of his GULag Archipelago by the YMCA Press (CCE 30.16).[1] The circumstances surrounding the publication of this book, as well … Continue reading The deportation of Solzhenitsyn, 13 February 1974 (32.1)
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