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<<No 58 : November 1980>> On 8 and 9 October the Moscow City Court, presided over by V. V. Bogdanov, heard the case of Yury Leonidovich Grimm (b. 1938; note 1). The prosecutor was Procurator T. P. Prazdnikova (who also prosecuted Bakhmin and Sokirko). Grimm's relatives had asked the lawyer Shveisky to act in Grimm’s … Continue reading The Trial of Grimm, October 1980 (58.9)
«No 58 : November 1980» On 5 October Abramkin wrote the following letter in prison: *** Friends! Brothers and sisters! My dear ones! Thank you so much for those wonderful, joyful, festive days you organized so splendidly for the sad court period of my imprisonment. Ten months behind a solid wall half a metre thick … Continue reading Two Letters from Prison, October 1980 (58.8-2)
«No 58 : November 1980» On 24 September the Moscow City Court, presided over by Judge Yevstigneyeva, began hearing the case of Valery Fyodorovich ABRAMKIN (b. 1946) [note 1]. The prosecutor was Procurator Ostretsova; the defence counsel (appointed by the court) was the lawyer Yefremov. On the petition of Abramkin, who had not had time … Continue reading The Trial of Abramkin, October 1980 (58.8)
<<No 58 : November 1980>> On 29 and 30 September the Moscow City Court, presided over by N. A. Baikova (who also tried Bakhmin, see this issue CCE 58.2), heard the case of Viktor Vladimirovich SOKIRKO (b. 1939). The prosecutor was Procurator T. P. Prazdnikova (who was also prosecutor at Bakhmin's trial). Sokirko refused the … Continue reading The Trial of Sokirko, September 1980 (58.7-2)
«No 58 : November 1980» See CCEs 52-57 for pattern of repression, in 1979 and 1980 [note 1] See CCEs 51, 52 & 56 for summary-reviews of each issue of Poiski [note 2] * The case of Poiski, introduction (58.7-1) The trial of Victor Sokirko (58.7-2) The trial of Valery Abramkin (58.8-1) Abramkin's prison letters … Continue reading The Case of “Poiski” (Searches), Nov 1980 (58.7-1)
<<No. 53, 1 August 1979>> Interrogations in connection with the case of the journal Poiski, which began after the searches on 25 January 1979 (CCE 52.4-4), are continuing. At an interrogation on 12 April Investigator Yu.A. Burtsev presented member of the editorial board Valery ABRAMKIN with a resolution about the institution of proceedings regarding the … Continue reading THE CASE OF “POISKI” (Searches), Aug 1979 (53.16)
<<No 52 : 1 March 1979>> [Anon:] ‘Some Aspects of the Problem of Defining Security Risks in the USSR’ (6 pp.) In an examination of the restrictions on exit from the USSR applying to individuals who have access to secret information, the anonymous author notes that in our country information which on principle cannot be … Continue reading Samizdat Update, March 1979 (52.17)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> [1] G. Pomerants: “My Interlocutor Viktor Sokirko” (March 1980, 9 pp.) “... Obviously, any alarming idea is tendentious: it suggests something, calls something into question. Sokirko was never an extremist. He even wrote a letter defending conformism, opposing escape into an inner exile and favouring dialogue with the government … Continue reading Samizdat update, Aug 1979-March 1980 (56.28)
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