<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> Veche, No. 5 (25 May 1972) Contents 1. Statement by the editors of the journal Veche – a protest against the police swoop by employees of station No. 2 of the Moscow UVD [Department of Internal Affairs] on editor Vladimir Osipov (see this issue, CCE 26.14), 2. "The Role … Continue reading Samizdat Update, July 1972 (26.16)
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Владимир Осипов
Letters and Documents (26.15)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> In May 1972 there appeared in samizdat an open letter, whose authors are concerned about the fate of K. Lyubarsky, V. Chornovil, I. Svitlychny. D. Shumuk and L. Plyushch (see CCE 24.3 and CCE 25.2), who were arrested in January 1972, and others. The letter talks of the protracted … Continue reading Letters and Documents (26.15)
Letters and Statements by Political Prisoners, 1977-1978 (48.10)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> Georgy Davydov: “Statement to Chairman of the Constitution Commission, L.I. Brezhnev” (Vladimir Prison, 15 June 1977) Davydov writes that in the draft [1977] Constitution the question of freedom of thought and convictions has again been side-stepped. Mikhail Osadchy: “To the American people, the Senate and US President Carter” The … Continue reading Letters and Statements by Political Prisoners, 1977-1978 (48.10)
In Prisons and Camps, March 1978 (48.10)
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)
In the Prisons and Camps, May 1976 (40.9)
VLADIMIR PRISON The right to correspond. Since the end of 1975 Zavyalkin, the governor of Vladimir Prison, has taken an active part in supervising the prisoners’ correspondence. From December 1975 stereo-postcards which arrived in letters were not given out. From February 1976 there was an increase in the number of incoming and outgoing letters being … Continue reading In the Prisons and Camps, May 1976 (40.9)
About the Journal “Veche”: April-July 1974 (32.13)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> On 19 April 1974, issue No. 10 of the journal Veche [Gathering or Moot] appeared. The chief editor is not V.N. Osipov, under whose signature the previous nine issues appeared, but I.V. Ovchinnikov. As far as can be judged from the series of statements made by the journal’s editor … Continue reading About the Journal “Veche”: April-July 1974 (32.13)
No 38 : 31 December 1975
ACTION IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES A few of the reports in this issue have been digitised. To read the other items use page numbers for the pdf version (see below) given to the right of each report in this Contents page. (1) Sakharov's friends and enemies [47] (2) Before … Continue reading No 38 : 31 December 1975
Samizdat Update, March 1972 (24.12)
<<No 24 : 5 March 1972>> [1] Our Middle-Eastern Friends: A Survey of the Soviet press, Moscow, 1972 A “collection of quotations” dealing with events in the Middle East, the Middle-Eastern policy of the Soviet Union and its treatment in the Soviet press. The 220 quotations (mainly from Soviet periodicals of 1967-71), arranged in chronological … Continue reading Samizdat Update, March 1972 (24.12)
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