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...tomorrow, another prominent Russian emigre is in town: Lev Kopelev, who along with his wife, Raisa Orlova, was forced into exile earlier this year. The two writers, who apparently drew the ire of Soviet authorities because of their satirical writings, will discuss the "Contemporary Opposition Movement in the Soviet Union" in Room 2 in Coolidge Hall...
...been a literary highlight. It was 1979, and present at the plush Aragvi Restaurant in the Soviet capital was a pleiad of Russian writers and intellectuals, including Andrei Sakharov, the famed nuclear physicist, Dissident Author Anatoli Marchenko, Novelists Vasili Aksyonov and Vladimir Voinovich, and Critics Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova. But when the U.S. publishers got ready to give another such gala at the Moscow book fair this month, they knew the party would have to be smaller...
Lately, dissident literary figures have become targets of the crackdown. Two weeks ago, Lev Kopelev and his wife Raisa Orlova, both literary critics, left the U.S.S.R. for West Germany, following a long campaign of harassment and official vilification. Novelist Vladimir Voinovich complained last week that he could not obtain permission to emigrate, although a Soviet official had warned him that he might suffer an auto "accident" if he did not leave the country. One of the Soviet Union's most talented writers, Georgi Vladimov, has been under constant threat of arrest because he is the Moscow representative of Amnesty...
...Manhattan's federal courthouse last week, Raisa Nemikin, 27, secretary at the Episcopal Church's national offices, read a statement: "The FBI and U.S. government are attempting to destroy the Hispanic community and the Puerto Rican independence movement. By cooperating, the church has destroyed whatever credibility and trust it had with the oppressed." With that, Nemikin began serving up to 14 months in prison for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury...
...Director Maria Cueto. Both refused to testify, on grounds of religious liberty, but a federal district court denied the claim. Though the national church is paying the two women's legal fees, it is not backing their refusal to testify. This week Maria Cueto is likely to join Raisa Nemikin in prison as a penalty for that silence...