«Grani.ru» “Alexander LAVUT was a member of the Action Group for the Defence of Human Rights, the first organisation in the USSR to openly defend such rights, yet he never boasted about having belonged to the oldest organisation of its kind in Russia. Lavut was among the editors of the legendary Chronicle of Current Events … Continue reading Alexander Lavut (1929-2013)
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Yury Galanskov, 1939-1972, Dec 1972 (28.2)
«No 28 : 31 December 1972» On 2 November 1972 Yury Galanskov died at the age of 33 in institution ZhKh 385-3 of the Mordovian camp complex. * Yury Timofeyevich GALANSKOV was born in 1939 in Moscow, into a family of workers. From 1959 onwards he took part in readings by young poets in Mayakovsky … Continue reading Yury Galanskov, 1939-1972, Dec 1972 (28.2)
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