Word: mordovia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Omeljan Pritsak, Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, said he was gratified and surprised that Soviet authorities had permitted Karavansky to emigrate so soon after his release from Mordovia Prison. The dates of his lectures have not been set, he added...
Harvard is a big name, no question about it. We know it will play in Peoria, but the question for a number of political prisoners in the Soviet Union is, will it play in Mordovia...
...Mordovia is the prison where Valentyn Moroz, a Ukrainian historian, was held until last April. Then, after Harvard invited him to join the Ukrainian Research Institute, Soviet authorities included Moroz in a deal that sent Moroz and four other dissidents to the United States in exchange for two Soviet spies...
...another Ukrainian dissident invited to come to Harvard has been released from Mordovia. Three times in the last two years, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invited Sviatoslav I. Karavansky, a translator, poet and literary critic from Odessa to give two lectures on "problems in the translation of classical English texts in Ukrainian...
Karavansky wrote back accepting the invitation, but it's not all clear whether he will be able to leave the Soviet Union. Though out of Mordovia, he is now in internal exile and prevented from returning to the Ukraine...