Word: galishnikov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly unusual and seemingly liberal action, the Soviets had allowed Chalidze, an eloquent spokesman for the Russian civil rights movement, to travel to the U.S. for a monthlong lecture tour (TIME, Dec. 18). But early one morning last week, a consular official from the Soviet embassy in Washington, Yuri Galishnikov, called on Chalidze at his Manhattan hotel and amiably asked him to identify himself. When Chalidze handed over his passport, Galishnikov deftly passed it to an aide, who pocketed it. Chalidze was then told that he had been stripped of his citizenship by order of the Presidium of the Supreme...
...Galishnikov claimed that Chalidze had been guilty of "acts discrediting a Soviet citizen" while in America. A spokesman from the Soviet Mission at the United Nations offered the explanation that "Chalidze is not a Soviet citizen in his soul." Chalidze pointed out that the substance of his lectures at U.S. colleges had been precisely the same as his earlier statements in Russia, when he appealed for amnesty for Soviet political prisoners and free emigration...
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