<<No 14 : 30 June 1970>> RIGA On 7 November 1969 [anniversary of 1917 October Revolution, ed.] E. Liepin and Misulovich were arrested on a charge of infringing Article 183-2 of the Latvian SSR Criminal Code ( = Article 190-2 of the Russian Code): "gross disrespect towards the State flag" (in fact of burning the … Continue reading The Soviet Press on the Persecution of Dissenters in the USSR, June 1970 (14.5)
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News in brief, June 1970 (14.11)
<<No 14 : 30 June 1970>> [1] IVANO-FRANKOVSK. On 1 June 1970 Valentin Moroz was once again arrested. The charge were brought under Article 62 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code (which corresponds to Article 70 of the Russian Code). V. Moroz served a term from 1965 to 1969 in the Mordovian camps (Dubrovlag) under Article … Continue reading News in brief, June 1970 (14.11)
News in Brief, April 1970 (13.10)
<<No 13 : 30 April 1970>> [1] Pyotr Markovich Igides [Abovin-Egides], b. 1917, member of the party and Master of philosophical sciences, was arrested on 22 March 1970 in Rostov [on-Don]. He was charged under Article 190-1 of the Russian Criminal Code. It can be surmised that Igides was arrested for a series of letters … Continue reading News in Brief, April 1970 (13.10)
The trial of I. Yakhimovich and other trials, April 1970 (13.8)
« No 13 : 30 April 1970» From 15 to 18 April a repeat trial of Ivan Yakhimovich was held (CCE 9.3 and CCE 11.15, item 22), following a second expert examination at the Serbsky Institute. The team of experts once again declared I. Yakhimovich to be of unsound mind, but with the reservation that … Continue reading The trial of I. Yakhimovich and other trials, April 1970 (13.8)
Appendix: Repressive measures in 1969 (11.17)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» The Chronicle gives a list of [62] persons known to have been subjected to repression for political reasons in 1969. [Note: the laws indicated refer to the Russian Criminal Code. In the other fourteen Union Republics Article 70 and Article 190-1 have a different numeration.] [This list was corrected … Continue reading Appendix: Repressive measures in 1969 (11.17)
News in brief, December 1969 (11.15)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» [1] On 5 December 1969 the traditional silent demonstration [CCE 6.9, item 3] was held on Pushkin Square. The first of these demonstrations was in support of Yu. Daniel and A. Sinyavsky, and took place on 5 December 1966, under the slogan "Respect the Constitution". This time about fifty … Continue reading News in brief, December 1969 (11.15)
Extra-judicial Political Persecution, December 1969 (11.13)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» GORKY Artsimovich, a journalist from Gorky, was dismissed from the editorial staff of the newspaper where she worked, for reading Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward. MOSCOW Boris Leibovich Shlayen, mechanic at a Moscow factory which repairs calculating machines. After Shlayen had applied to the Department of Visas and Registration, on 30 … Continue reading Extra-judicial Political Persecution, December 1969 (11.13)
Commentary No 11 (December 1969)
<<No 11 : 31 December 1969>> 11.1 The expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the Writers Union [1] Sakhalin - an island off the Far Eastern coast of the Soviet Union, visited by Chekhov in 1890. His impressions of the forced labour camps and exiles' settlements located there are recorded in Sakhalin Island, first published in 1893-4. … Continue reading Commentary No 11 (December 1969)
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