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...Soviet Union's emigration laws are among the tightest in the world, but authorities will readily bend the rules when it suits them. Last week they did just that to rid themselves of a nemesis who had attracted worldwide attention: Psychiatrist Anatoli Koryagin, who was sentenced to seven years in labor camps after protesting the practice of locking up political dissidents in mental hospitals and often dosing them with mind-altering drugs...
This week an obscure literary journal, Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of Peoples), will publish the first of three monthly installments of Anatoli Rybakov's startling novel, Children of the Arbat, which takes place during Stalin's reign of terror. The publication has been eagerly anticipated by Soviet intellectuals for more than a year, and many are hailing it as the literary event of their generation. People who have already read the novel are heaping praise on it. "This is a great book, a great moment in our literature," declared Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. "Rybakov was the man to do this...
...activist whose cancer-stricken wife died in Washington last week, just three weeks after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union for treatment in the U.S., described the recent changes as a "more sophisticated way of dealing with dissidents." But in Jerusalem, Natan Sharansky (who changed his name from Anatoli Shcharansky when he was released from Soviet detention and allowed to move to Israel last year) warned, "In some ways we can say that the situation is much more dangerous, because ((Gorbachev)) is more sophisticated in using the mass media of the West for deception...
...tight schedules, including Kissinger, were so disturbed by Soviet slowness in arranging promised meetings with Gorbachev and other leaders that they threatened to return home. That spurred a flurry of activity, and soon the program was full. The group eventually also saw Sakharov, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Anatoli Dobrynin, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission...
...country. They called him a "pig rooting in our Soviet garden." Today Historian Dmitri Likhachev in a Literaturnaya Gazeta article unequivocally demands that Doctor Zhivago be published. Today our literary journals are preparing important books for publication: Vladimir Dudintsev writing about Stalin's suppression of genetics; Anatoli Pristavkin on the forced resettlement of ethnic Chechens from the Caucasus; Anatoli Rybakov on the assassination of Sergei Kirov. All these subjects were banned in the past...