Word: lefortovo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week published the pictures in a three-page report that gave many Soviet citizens their first look inside the forbidding KGB building on Moscow's Dzerzhinsky Square. Nedelya Editor in Chief Vitali Syrokomsky and photographer Viktor Akhlomov toured the KGB's headquarters, a KGB officers' academy and the notorious Lefortovo prison, where Natan Sharansky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and many lesser-known dissidents have been detained. What Syrokomsky and Akhlomov saw, of course, was carefully screened; they were not allowed into the KGB communications center, laboratories and interrogation rooms. And conspicuously absent from Nedelya's pages was any insight into Vladimir Kryuchkov...
...famous plane flew home to Hamburg last week, but its famous pilot was not at the controls. Mathias Rust, 19, the West German amateur pilot who landed the rented Cessna just outside Moscow's Red Square last May, stayed behind in Lefortovo Prison awaiting assignment to a Soviet labor camp to serve his four- year sentence. The plane was flown to West Germany and transferred to its new owner, Munich Businessman Wolfgang Rudy Neumann, 51, who bought the craft from a Hamburg aviation club...
Pilot Rust, held in Moscow's Lefortovo Prison, was permitted to receive two visits from his parents Karl-Heinz and Monika Rust. At week's end, however, no quick resolution of his case was in sight; young Rust may still have to stand trial for violating Soviet airspace...
Freed Nick Daniloff prefaced his remarks by saying it was not his "usual style" to speak into a forest of microphones. "I spent a great deal of time thinking," he said, "both when I was in the bowels of Lefortovo Prison and later when I was in the custody of the American embassy. I thought what a wonderful nation it is that will go all out for a single individual. It seems to me that's one of the distinctive things about this country -- that it is built on single individuals, each one a precious individual. And I couldn...
Meanwhile, Daniloff continued his daily routine of jogging five miles along the Moscow River embankment. The strain of detention, though in the comfortable surroundings of the U.S. embassy, where he has been staying since his release from Lefortovo Prison more than two weeks ago, has taken its toll: a doctor at the embassy is worried about the correspondent's continued high blood pressure. Despite the hopes for a settlement, Ronald Reagan has stood firm in insisting that Daniloff is an "innocent hostage who should be released." As long as he remained in the Soviet Union, a summit would be held...