Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical Sunday scene takes place at the Cathedral of St. Vladimir in Kiev...
...Music Teacher Mykola Gorbal, 38, jailed in Kiev, has been active on be half of Ukrainian political prisoners...
Following a 15-month pause, the Soviets have resumed a crackdown on critics of the regime. In three centers of human rights agitation, Moscow, Kiev and Vilnius, KGB operatives over the past two weeks have arrested four prominent dissidents and searched the homes of several others. The moves mean a further thinning of Soviet dissident ranks already greatly diminished by the deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Amalrik in the mid-1970s and the trials and imprisonment of Yuri Orlov and Anatoli Shcharansky, among others, in 1978. The movement's sole internationally known survivor is Nobel Peace Prize winner...
...growing power and diversity of the Soviet armed forces are more striking than the U.S.S.R.'s development of aircraft carriers. Though the Soviets built two helicopter-carrying warships in the 1960s, it was not until 1976 that they produced their first true carrier, the 38,000-ton Kiev. Last February came her sister ship, the Minsk, and two more of the same class are being built...
...Kiev and Minsk are thus multipurpose warships: their principal mission seems to be antisubmarine warfare, but they and their aircraft can attack surface ships. Jane's Fighting Ships, the authoritative British guide to the world's navies, notes that possession of a carrier force gives the Soviet Union "an intervention capability in so-called peacetime." Jane's believes that no more carriers of the Kiev class will be built after the first four, but expects a new class of larger Soviet aircraft carriers to begin appearing on the high seas in the early 1980s...