Word: chkalova
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...first word that a prisoner release was on the way came from Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner, whose tiny apartment on Chkalova Street has once again become the nerve center of the human-rights movement. The Sakharovs advised Western reporters that they knew of 43 political prisoners who had suddenly been freed, in what Bonner called a "wonderful turnaround" in Kremlin policy. Soon old friends and even distant acquaintances, some newly arrived at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station in camp clothes and close-cropped prison haircuts, came to call. When Yuri Shikhanovich arrived, Bonner sent him off with money...
...public appearance by a Soviet dissident is well attended by uniformed and plainclothes police, who try to intimidate journalists and passersby. This time no attempt was made to disrupt the impromptu news conference. Nor was there any police stakeout at the couple's tiny seventh-floor apartment on Chkalova Street...
...sense of fair play: even if he had a pretty good idea of who was doing what to whom, he printed the letter rather than behave like an editor of Pravda, who certainly wouldn't. Thus the London Times had published two such letters (signed "S. Marshak, Ulitsa Chkalova 14/16, Apt. 113, Moscow") without comment or caveat. The editors were over a barrel: they could neither prove nor brand the letters an outright forgery...
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