The 63 published issues of the CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS can be accessed in English translation (and Russian) through the menu bar above. The Russian original ХРОНИКА ТЕКУЩИХ СОБЫТИЙ is online. So is most of the Munich-based ВЕСТИ ИЗ СССР (1978- 1992). A useful selection of CPSU Central Committee documents, many translated into English, is…
<< No 39 : 12 March 1976 >> On the night of 8/9 March 1976, Grigory Sergeyevich Podyapolsky, a scientist and poet, one of those who has openly and courageously fought for human rights in the USSR, died of a brain haemorrhage in a Saratov hospital. Grigory Podyapolsky had an exceptional, outsize and vivid personality.…
<<No 25 : 20 May 1972>> In accordance with the suggestion made by Solzhenitsyn in his letter to the Secretary of the Swedish Academy, K. R. Gierow (see CCE 22.1), the ceremony for the presentation of the Nobel Prize was due to take place in a private flat in Moscow. A.I. Solzhenitsyn sent off the…
<< No 31: 17 May 1974 >> Tashkent Region Court, 12 April 1973. Articles 190-1 and 190-3 of the RSFSR Criminal Code and corresponding articles of the criminal code of the Uzbek SSR. Sentence – 3 years in the camps. ♦ On 12 July 1972 a search was made in the flat of R. Dzhemilev[1]…
<< No 40 : 20 May 1976 >> On 12 May 1976 a declaration was issued announcing the formation of a new public association [NGO] in Moscow: the “Group to Assist the Implementation of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR”. The declaration states: The Group’s aim is to promote the observance of the Final Act…
<< No 1 : 30 April 1968 >> On 10 December 1968 it will be twenty years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of Human Rights. “Human Rights Year” began all over the world on 10 December 1967. On 11 December 1967 the trial of Yury Galanskov, Alexander Ginzburg, Alexei Dobrovolsky and…
<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> On 30 March 1972 A.I. Solzhenitsyn gave an interview to Western journalists.[1] Here are extracts from the interview : What are you working on now? October 1916, the second volume of the same book. Will it be finished soon? No, In the course of the work it…
<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> MOSCOW On 20 April 1972 the arrest took place of the store-keeper of the Institute of Psychology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, Pyotr Petrovich Starchik, born in 1937. He has two children—the elder is 6, the younger 10 months. The investigation into his case is being…
