Word: donetsk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also raided the apartment of Mykola Rudenko, head of the Helsinki group's Kiev chapter. The agents trashed the contents of Rudenko's flat and stripped his wife naked to humiliate her. Rudenko and Oleska Tykhy, a committee member from the city of Donetsk, were then hauled off to Ukrainian prisons...
Green Ghost. In the Ukrainian city of Donetsk (pop. 900,000), youthful would-be deejays adopted such sprightly call signs as "Buzz Saw," "Green Ghost," "Graveyard Goon," "Bullet Hole," "Spark of Love" and "The Invisible Man." The police were not amused. In an effort to make a clean sweep of the cluttered airways, 1,000 amateur Donetsk broadcasters-called "organ grinders" by the police-were arrested and fined 50 rubles ($69) for "violating rules governing the use of radio frequencies." There have been similar efforts to clamp down on underground broadcasts in other major cities...
...displeasure with the "radio hooligans," who usually steal hard-to-get parts for their transmitters from state factories, is more practical than ideological. The music and chatter of the pirate stations are sprayed so widely across the medium-range radio frequencies that they have become a communications hazard. In Donetsk, many of the illegal transmitters were on the frequency of the railway switching station of this important industrial center. On the inland Sea of Azov, riverboat skippers complain that they cannot hear routing orders because of interference by Elvis Presley tapes. Judged even more hazardous, however, were the broadcasts...