Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moroz said this weekend that Soviet authorities had not permitted him to receive the letters, but his wife had informed him of the offer...
Moroz has been in Soviet prisons almost continually since 1965. After completing a four year term for alleged anti-Soviet activities, he was arrested again in June 1970 after nine months of freedom for writing a series of essays protesting Soviet domination of the Ukraine. His current sentence, five years imprisonment and five years exile, would have extended through...
Along with fellow dissidents Aleksandr Ginzburg, Mark Dymshits, George P. Vins and Edward S. Kuznetsov, Moroz was exchanged on Friday for Valdik A. Enger and Rudolf P. Chernyayev, both United Nations employees convicted last year of spying for the Soviet Union and sentenced to 50 years...
...involved in bringing the matter to Bok's attention, said Saturday the University consulted several U.S. government officials before sending the initial invitation. In particular, Pritsak said Dean Rosovsky asked then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger whether inviting Moroz would be a "reasonable step" in the light of U.S.-Soviet relations. Kissinger replied that it was something that should be tried and pursued, Pritsak said...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to President Carter, who reportedly helped negotiate the prisoner exchange with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin, served on the visiting committee to the Ukrainian Studies Institute until he left to join the administration...