EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF THE UKRAINIAN HELSINKI GROUP HERALD UKRAINE 2 1801 EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF THE UKRAINIAN HELSINKI GROUP HERALD OF REPRESSION IN UKRAINE No. 2 Edited and compiled by Nadia Svitlychna February 1981 New York FROM THE EDITOR The HERALD OF REPRESSION IN UKRAINE collects and syste­ matizes current information about political, national and religious per­ secution in Ukraine. The HERALD consists of the following sections: I. Chronicle of Repression II. News about Prisoners III. Samizdat Archive IV. Reports in the Press about Persecuted Persons V. Index of Persecuted Persons VI. Birthday Greetings VII. Miscellaneous Information contained in all sections of the HERALD appears ac­ cording to a system of numeration preceding the text, in which the first number indicates the issue of the HERALD and the second repre­ sents the order of appearance of a certain piece of information in the given issue. Facts considered relevant to the biographies appearing in the section entitled “Index of Persecuted Persons" are set in bold type. In order to indicate earlier entries on the individuals discussed, re­ ference is made to the last issue of the HERALD where the given name appears. By referring to that issue and entry number (e. g.: q. v. 1980, 10-7) the reader will be able to find all previous mentions of that per­ son. Bibliographic entries in the section entitled “Reports in the Press about Persecuted Persons” are grouped in chronological order under the names of publications in which they appear. Ukrainian publica­ tions are listed in Ukrainian alphabetical order. If the title of an article does not contain the name or names of all persons mentioned therein, this information is appended to the entry in square brackets. Where the customary spelling of names of individuals living in the West is not known, their names are rendered according to the system of transli­ teration used in this publication. The alphabetical index at the end of the issue includes all names mentioned in all sections of this issue of the HERALD. The publication of the HERALD depends on the free exchange of information. In order to facilitate the work of informing the public 3 about repression in Ukraine, we ask all news agencies, newspapers, magazines and individuals to send information, as well as all corres­ pondence relating to the HERALD, to the following address: Nadia Svitlychna, P.O. Box 770, Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003 Tel.: (201) 371-6361 The HERALD appears simultaneously in English and in Ukrainian. The English edition is a translation of the Ukrainian one. A one-year subscription costs $20.00 (or $30.00 for both the English and Ukrain­ ian editions). Please send checks or money orders to: Ukrainian Helsinki Group (1561) P.O. Box 770, Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003. 4 ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMS USED IN THIS ISSUE ASSR — Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic arr. — arrest art. — article of the Criminal Code CC RSFSR — Criminal Code of the Russian Federated Socialist Repub­ lic CC UkSSR — Criminal Code of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ECB — Evangelical Christians and Baptists g. — gorod (Russ.) = city komn. — komnata (Russ.) = room korp. — korpus (Russ.) = building in an apartment complex kv. — kvartyra (Russ. & Ukr.) = apartment m. — misto (Ukr.) - city obshchezhytie — (Russ.) = dormitory obi. — oblast (Russ. & Ukr.) = region OPH — Oblast Psychiatric Hospital PH — psychiatric hospital place — address of place where sentence is being served pos. — poselok (Russ.) = settlement prof. — profession prosp. — prospekt (Russ. & Ukr.) = avenue radhosp — state farm (Ukr.) r-n — rayon (Russ. & Ukr.) = district s. — selo (Ukr.) = village sel. — selyshche (Ukr.) = settlement sent. — sentence shakhta — (Russ. & Ukr.) = mine shose — (Russ. & Ukr.) = highway SPH — Special Psychiatric Hospital s/rada — silska rada (Ukr.) = village council st. — stantsiya (Ukr.) = station uchr. — uchrezhdenie (Russ.) = institution ust. — ustanova (Ukr.) = institution ul. — ulitsa (Russ.) = street vul. — vulytsya (Ukr.) = street 5 CHRONICLE OF REPRESSION 2-1 Oksana Yakivna MESHKO (q. v. 1981, 1-1), a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, was tried on January 5-6, 1981 in Kiev. Summoned for questioning by the KGB on October 14, 1980, she never returned home. Instead, she was confined once again to the Pavlov Psychiatric Hospital. After a forensic psychiatric commission found O. MESHKO competent to stand trial, she was transferred to the investigation-isolation prison and charged with violating Art. 62, sec. 1 of the Criminal Code of the UkSSR. None of O. MESHKO’s relatives or friends were informed that she was to stand trial. Only after the trial was over did her daughter-in-law, Zvenyslava VIVCHAR (q. v. 1980, 6- 1), receive a written notification of the court’s verdict. Oksana MESH­ KO was sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment and 5 years of exile. The time she spent in prison under preliminary investigation was taken into account, and, as a result, O. MESHKO began her term of exile immediately upon the completion of the trial. Oksana MESHKO turned 76 at the end of January of this year. 2-2 The trial of Anatoliy ZINCHENKO (q. v. 1980, 11-3) began in Kharkiv on January 7, 1981. He was charged with violating Art. 62, sec. 1 of the CC UkSSR. Because ZINCHENKO refused the services of the court-appointed defense counsel, the trial was postponed until the attorney retained by his relatives recovered from an illness. The trial was held on January 15-16 and 19,1981. A. ZINCHENKO’S friends, the Kharkiv “refuseniks,” were permitted to attend the trial. Before the trial proceedings began, the procurator read a state­ ment signed by A. ZINCHENKO, in which the latter claimed that he had committed his crime under the influence of such “inveterate anti- Soviets” as Yuriy DZYUBA (q. v. 1980, 9-16), Anatoliy ZDOROVY (q. v. 1980, 11-3), Ihor KRAVTSIV (q.v. 1980, 9-16), and, in particular, Hen- rikh ALTUNYAN (q.v. 1981, 1-9). The statement gave a detailed ac­ count of the “criminal activities of H. ALTUNYAN.” In his charges the procurator claimed that A. ZINCHENKO’S (b. 1925) real name is Anatoliy Matviyovych ZAYCHENKO. The procu­ rator stated that in 1942 A. ZAYCHENKO left voluntarily for Germany. He regularly sent his family financial assistance and received commenda­ tions for doing good work. In 1945 he ended up in the Mauthausen concentration camp, from where he was repatriated to the Soviet Union. Back in his homeland, he forged a set of documents using the name of a real person and accepted the military awards earned by that 6 individual. A. ZINCHENKO did not deny these charges. Anatoliy ZINCHENKO was charged with disseminating letters in defense of A. SAKHAROV (q.v. 1980, 10-3) and P. GRIGORENKO’s (q.v. 1980, 10-1) in connection with ZINCHENKO’S own appeals to obtain permission to emigrate from the USSR, as well as photographs showing him, Yu. DZYUBA and Yevhen ANTSUPOV (q.v. 1980, 11-3) holding a poster demanding the right to leave the Soviet Union (A. ZINCHENKO used to leave these photographs in telephone booths). ZINCHENKO partially admitted guilt, saying that only certain phrases in his letters could be interpreted as slanderous. Anatoliy ZINCHENKO was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment in strict regime camps and 5 years of exile. 2-3 Mykhaylo BONDARCHUK, a Pentecostalist and the father of five children, was sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment in camps on November 21, 1980 in the city of Rivne. 2-4 The Baptist pastor Mykola BOYKO (q.v. 1980, 12-2) was tried in Odessa on December 18-19, 1980. He was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment in strict regime camps and 5 years of exile. 2-5 On January 9, 1981, the Dolyna City Court in Ivano-Fran- kivsk Oblast found Volodymyr Petrovych SICHKO (q.v. 1981, 1-4) guilty of refusing to perform his military service because of his inten­ tion to emigrate and of renouncing Soviet citizenship. Judge MALYU- TA presided. Volodymyr SICHKO’s mother, Stefaniya PETRASH (q. v. 1980, 10-20), refused to comply with the order: “Please rise, the court is now in session.” She stated, “I will not rise before liars.” She acted in this fashion because in response to her question as to when the trial would be held, the court secretary had told her that it would take place in three days’ time, even though the trial was already under way. S. PETRASH learned of this by chance that same day. Volodymyr SICHKO pleaded not guilty. He was sentenced to 3 years of imprison­ ment in strict regime camps. His father, Petro SICHKO (q. v. 1981, 1-4) and his brother Vasyl (q. v. 1981, 1-4) are serving identical terms of im­ prisonment for their human rights activities in camps of strict and re­ inforced regime, respectively. 2-6 Anatoliy Ivanovych KORYAGIN of Kharkiv (b. 1938), a candidate of medical sciences, a psychiatrist, and a member of the Working Commission for the Investigation of the Use of Psychiatry for 7 Political Purposes was arrested on February 13, 1981. He was taken off a train at the Bilhorod station, while he was traveling from Kharkiv to Moscow. Earlier he had been searched on numerous occasions and held under KGB surveillance. Charges against A. KORYAGIN were preferred under Art. 62, sec. 1 of the CC UkSSR. Anatoliy KORYAGIN worked in the Central Psychiatric Hospital in Kharkiv (on vul. akad. Pavlova). He wrote samizdat articles. He is mar­ ried and has three children. His family(mother, wife Halyna Danyliv- na, son Oleksander, bom in 1968, son Dmytro, bom in 1971, and the youngest son, .born in 1978) live at the following address: 310111, m. Kharkiv, vui.