Word: sasha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sunday, Regina M. Sasha '87, Cimino's roommate in Thayer 28 and three friends rented a car to drive to New Haven and visit her. "I think she's going to be okay," said Sasha, "her spirits were good." She also added that Cimino 'loves mail...
...nudge bids upward with capitalist determination. "What's the matter, you leave your wallets at home?" he asked after the first 17 horses were shown and only five were sold for a paltry total of $142,000. To help warm up the bidding and the bidders, Alexander ("Sasha") Ponomarev, Tersk stud manager, seized the gavel and ordered generous rounds of vodka. The stratagem was rewarded. Ken Ford of San Antonio success fully bid $52,000 for a gray mare named Pishka, which he said would be a present for his daughter Tina, 20. After the auction, the Soviets said...
Kaminskaya's first meeting with Sasha convinced her that he and Alik were innocent. She quickly discovered the reasons they had confessed. Among them: Sasha had been put into a cell with a horribly scarred adult inmate who told him that if he did not confess he would be sent to a notorious prison where guards and convicts alike would beat him up. Alik had been given a similar cell mate...
During the boys' six-week trial, Kaminskaya's new evidence impressed the court, which referred the case for further investigation. Still, the court at the second trial pronounced Sasha and Alik guilty (there are no juries in the Soviet Union). Undeterred, Kaminskaya and Alik's advocate both appealed; once again the case was referred for investigation. A third trial ensued, this time before the Supreme Court of the Russian Republic. The evidence that the boys were innocent was overwhelming. Among other things, the defense established that the old woman who claimed to have heard Marina...
Sitting in the living room of her modest two-story house in Arlington, Kaminskaya widens her piercing blue eyes at the memory of her victory in the courtroom 14 years ago. The 63-year-old advocate brought to America a treasured photo of Sasha, grown up, that is touchingly inscribed to her. But she has other, tragic memories of the dissidents she could not save from injustice: Yuri Galanskov, who died of mistreatment in the Gulag; Ilya Gabay, who killed himself in despair; Anatoli Marchenko, who was sent back to the camps for ten years after three terms of imprisonment...