<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> At the beginning of the 1960s a schism took place among the Baptists in the USSR, when some congregations left the All-Union Council of the ECB. These congregations wanted to obtain greater autonomy from the State than the 1929 law on religious cults allows, particularly over the question of … Continue reading Evangelical Christians & Baptists, Aug 1976 (41.2-4)
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News in Brief, Sept 1975 (37.13)
<<No 37 : 30 September 1975>> KIEV. Yury Timofeyevich Litvin, arrested at the end of 1974 or the beginning of 1975, has been sentenced by the Kiev Regional Court to four years’ imprisonment, apparently under the Article relating to ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda’. He was formerly imprisoned from the middle 1950s until 1965, under Articles … Continue reading News in Brief, Sept 1975 (37.13)
Prisons and Camps, March 1977 (45.11-1)
Prisons and Camps (45.11-1) Political Prisoner status (45.11-2) Letters and Statements; Releases (45.11-3) <<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> Vladimir Prison. An Appeal by political prisoners signed by Abankin, Antonyuk, Afanasyev, Balakhonov, Davydov, Rode and Safronov about the exchange of Bukovsky for Corvalan (see “Letters and Statements by Political Prisoners” CCE 45.11-3) has fallen into … Continue reading Prisons and Camps, March 1977 (45.11-1)
Discussion of Draft [1977] Constitution (47.16-2)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» The third and fourth issues of the bulletin Concerning the Draft Constitution of the USSR (for issues 1 and 2 see CCE 46.18), include the letter by Mark Popovsky mentioned in CCE 46, another letter by Leonard Ternovsky, letters from Orion Kvachevsky, Larisa Bogoraz, Yury Grimm, Yury Sergeyev, Yevgeny … Continue reading Discussion of Draft [1977] Constitution (47.16-2)
Political Releases, April 1979 (53.1)
<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> Pardons. On 15 June 1970, a group of people who were planning to hijack an aeroplane and escape abroad in it were arrested in Leningrad. In December of the same year, they were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, and on two of them, Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov, … Continue reading Political Releases, April 1979 (53.1)
The Trial of Georgy Vins, 27-31 January 1975 (35.3)
«No 35 : 31 March 1975» KIEV The court building was guarded by a detachment of police. Entrance was by special pass only. A group of religious believers were pushed back to the other side of the street. Georgy Vins, 1928-1998 The defendant was Georgy Petrovich VINS (b. 1928), Secretary of the Council of Churches … Continue reading The Trial of Georgy Vins, 27-31 January 1975 (35.3)
Political Prisoner’s Day, 30 October 1974 (33.1)
<< No 33 : 10 December 1974 >> According to advance information received from the labour camps of Mordovia and Perm, a decision was taken there to designate 30 October 1974 [note 1] as the "Day of the Political Prisoner in the USSR". On that day the prisoners intended to declare hunger strikes, which were … Continue reading Political Prisoner’s Day, 30 October 1974 (33.1)