Word: ukrainians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soviet Union has allowed a Ukrainian dissident invited to speak at Harvard to leave the country. He and his wife are now in London on their way to the United States...
Soviet authorities recently granted an exit visa for Sviatoslav I. Karavansky, a Ukrainian translator who spent 30 years in Soviet prisons before his release in September...
Karavansky had previously accepted an invitation from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures to give two lectures at Harvard on the problems of translating classical English texts into Ukrainian...
There are at present no plans to offer Karavansky a position at Harvard, but sources say he may be asked to stay on at the Ukrainian Research Institute...
Dissenters reject all state control, including government-required registration. But one Protestant reports 200 Baptist or Pentecostal congregations have been registered in the U.S.S.R. over the past five years, about half of them Ukrainian. Dukhonchenko reckons there are only about 8,000 reformers left in Kiev, and only 18,000 across the Soviet Union...