Word: turchin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will the Kremlin leaders succeed in terrorizing dissidents into silence with show trials like Shcharansky's? The consensus among both dissidents and Sovietologists abroad appears to be that they will live to fight another day. "The publicity given the trials is very encouraging," said Computer Scientist Valentin Turchin, 47, who was a prominent human rights activist before he emigrated to New York City last year. Although the Soviet press has hardly mentioned the protests in Western Europe and the U.S., news of them was beamed to millions in the Soviet Union by Radio Liberty and other Western short-wave stations...
...dissent in the Soviet Union. Since 1965 the KGB had conducted a campaign to fragment Russia's "democratic movement for human rights" by imprisoning or exiling its members. Amalrik, 38, was the last of his generation of celebrated protester-intellectuals to succumb. At Moscow airport, Physicist Valentin Turchin, a longtime Amalrik friend, explained that although a whole new group of lesser-known dissidents had sprung up to replace the old, "Andrei's departure is a pity for us; he is able to draw much attention to our movement...
...London-based organization that investigates political repression, was charged with slandering the Soviet state. Last week he was sentenced to five years of exile in a remote region. The sentence was reduced to two years because of the year Tverdokhlebov has already spent in prison awaiting trial. Said Valentin Turchin, chairman of the Moscow chapter of Amnesty: "It was public pressure from the West that made them cut the sentence, and nothing more...
...also signed by two lesser-known scholars, Historian Roy Medvedev and Physicist Valentin Turchin...