<<No 58 : November 1980>> On 2 June the Leningrad City Court, presided over by A. V. Karlov, heard the case of Abram Mendelevich Treskunov, charged under Article 70 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, Treskunov was arrested on 13 March while attempting to enter a building where employees of foreign consulates in Leningrad live. A … Continue reading The Trial of Treskunov, June 1980 (58.16)
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The Trial of Volkov & Rybakov, March 1977 (45.2)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> The decisive development marking the start of action by the investigators in the “case of the inscriptions” (CCE 42) was the evidence given by G. Trifonov (CCE 42), who was arrested on 9 August 1976 in a case ‘of his own’. On 3 September he wrote “testimony in his … Continue reading The Trial of Volkov & Rybakov, March 1977 (45.2)
Extrajudicial Persecution, November 1979 (47.13)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» * LENINGRAD. In May 1977 Sergei Levin, a senior laboratory worker at the Leningrad University Research Institute of Mathematics, had to face a special review of his qualifications (CCE 45). In April the union official in his laboratory, junior scientific worker Andrei Grigorevich Filippov, refused to sign a character … Continue reading Extrajudicial Persecution, November 1979 (47.13)
The Trials of Tsurkov & Skobov, April 1979 (53.6)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> In spring 1976, on the opening day of the 25th Congress of the CPSU, a group of young people circulated some leaflets in Leningrad (CCE 40.15). They included first-year student of the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty of Leningrad State University (LSU) Andrei Reznikov, first-year polytechnical college student Arkady Tsurkov, … Continue reading The Trials of Tsurkov & Skobov, April 1979 (53.6)
News in Brief, March 1975 (35.10)
<<No 35 : 31 May 1975>> KIEV. On 25 March the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR heard the appeal against the verdict in the case of Shtern (CCE 34) and confirmed the sentence. * TALLINN. On 13 December Kiirend, Mattik, Soldatov and others, [note 33] whose names are unknown to the Chronicle, were arrested … Continue reading News in Brief, March 1975 (35.10)
The Trial of Anton Pype, March 1977 (45.1)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> On 24 and 25 March 1977 the Leningrad City Court considered Case 68, in which Belgian citizen Anton Maria Joseph PYPE (b. 1945) was accused of “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”. Vice-chairman of the Leningrad City Court Karlov presided over the court; the prosecution was represented by Leningrad’s Deputy-Procurator Katukova; … Continue reading The Trial of Anton Pype, March 1977 (45.1)
Deportation of Vladimir Borisov, 1980 (57.4)
<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> In Leningrad, at the end of March 1980, Vladimir BORISOV was forcibly interned in a psychiatric hospital. In mid-April he was sent for an expert examination (CCE 56). On 3 May Borisov was discharged from hospital: the psychiatrists pronounced him no longer a ‘psychiatric invalid’. On 3 June 1980, … Continue reading Deportation of Vladimir Borisov, 1980 (57.4)
Persecution of Believers, 1979-1980 (56.19-1)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> Catholics in Lithuania. Baptists and Pentecostalists. CATHOLICS IN LITHUANIA. A Search at the Home of Grazulis. In October 1979 and January 1980, the Prienai district soviet executive committee twice wrote to Father Antanas GRAZULIS, assistant priest of Prienai parish, warning him against allowing schoolchildren to act as altar-boys during … Continue reading Persecution of Believers, 1979-1980 (56.19-1)
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