<<No 53 : 1 August 1979>> Sergei Khodorovich: ‘Appeal to the Press’. One of the administrators of the fund to aid political prisoners writes about the threats to which I. Zholkovskaya, Ye. Sirotenko, Ye. Bonner and A. Sakharov are being subjected. They are all being threatened with physical reprisals from ‘persons unknown’. Publicity could avert … Continue reading Letters and Statements, Aug 1979 (53.30)
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Глеб Якунин
Letters and Statements, May 1976 (40.16)
<< No 40 : 20 May 1976 >> Open letter to the organization Amnesty International and the European Commission of Human Rights, 19 March 1976, from the following mothers and wives of political prisoners: Nina Bukovskaya, Oksana Meshko (Sergienko), Galina Salova (Lyubarskaya), N. Buzyreva (Fyodorova), V. Isakova (Davydova). The authors of the letter report that … Continue reading Letters and Statements, May 1976 (40.16)
The Persecution of Believers, Dec 1975 (38.17)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> LITHUANIA In 1967 the publishing house ‘Mintis’ (‘Thought’) issued a pamphlet, ‘Dying They Fought’, edited by Vytautas Denas and published in Vilnius. One of its short articles contained a description of how the priest Vincentas Gelgota killed a man. In May 1968 Gelgota wrote a letter to Denas in … Continue reading The Persecution of Believers, Dec 1975 (38.17)
Letters and Statements, Aug 1977 (46.17)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> 56 signatures: “To the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. To the Supreme Soviet of the USSR” (2 June 1977). “… In connection with the imminent adoption of a new Constitution, we call on the Soviet government to declare the first general amnesty in the history of Soviet power … Continue reading Letters and Statements, Aug 1977 (46.17)
Samizdat update, Aug 1979-March 1980 (56.28)
<<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)
Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, 1979 (54.2-1)
<<No 54 : 15 November 1979>> 2-5 * 2. Case No. 46012 (see CCE 52.4-4 & CCE 53.15) On 26 August 1979, a search was conducted at the home of member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Victor Nekipelov in the town of Kameshkovo, Vladimir Region. G.P. Yurov, Assistant Procurator of Vladimir city; KGB Major N.A. … Continue reading Arrests, Searches, Interrogations, 1979 (54.2-1)
Persecution of Christian Committee, 1980 (56.10)
<<No. 56 : 30 April 1980>> Arrest of Kapitanchuk, January-March 1980 On 31 January 1980, Victor KAPITANCHUK was fetched from work (he is a chemist working at the Grabar Central Restoration Workshops [note 1]) to an interrogation at the KGB linked to the case of Yakunin. Kapitanchuk stated that for religious and moral reasons he … Continue reading Persecution of Christian Committee, 1980 (56.10)
Pre-Trial Investigations, August 1980 (57.9-1)
<<No 57 : 3 August 1980>> The Yakunin-Kapitanchuk-Regelson-Dudko Case. G. Yakunin was arrested on 1 November 1979 (CCE 54.1), L. Regelson on 24 December 1979 (CCE 55) and V. Kapitanchuk on 12 March 1980 (CCE 56). In Moscow, in March 1980, Investigators Kolpakov and Yakovlev (CCE 54) spent a whole day interrogating E. Barabanov (CCE … Continue reading Pre-Trial Investigations, August 1980 (57.9-1)