Word: kishinev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal and willing to have these relations take any form the Russians suggest." Israel has been sending out other signals to indicate its receptiveness. The conviction of Soviet Jews in Leningrad and Riga on skyjacking charges brought vigorous protests from Israel; the trial of nine other Jews at Kishinev last week on similar charges was met with official silence. "We've been castrated and we do not know why," said one Israeli official who had been orchestrating the anti-Russian propaganda protests...
...skyjackers were picked up at Leningrad's Smolny airport. If other Soviet citizens had similarly supported another country, very probably the same would have happened. An unknown number were released after months in prison. But five are scheduled to be tried soon in Riga, another nine in Kishinev, and one in Odessa. The trials, however, are apparently not having the effect that the Kremlin intended. After the sentences were announced last week, a dozen or so Jews in Leningrad and several other cities marched around the main streets in protest...