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Moscow Summit 1988 (3) Box: OA 18287 Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections This is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections. Collection: Chumachenko, Katherine: Files Folder Title: Moscow Summit 1988 (3) Box: OA 18287 To see more digitized collections visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library To see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection Contact a reference archivist at: [email protected] Citation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing National Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/ WITHDRAWAL SHEET Ronald Reagan Library Collection Name CHUMACHENKO, KATHERINE: FILES Withdrawer KDB 513012006 File Folder MOSCOW SUMMIT 1988 (3) FOIA F1737 Box Number 18291 SNYDER, S 7 ID Doc Type Document Description No of Doc Date Restrictions Pages 24940 REPORT FBIS REPORT (PAGE 13 ONLY) 1 4/22/1988 B3 PAR 8/14/2007 F1737 Freedom of Information Act • [5 U.S.C. 552(b)] B-1 National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA] B-2 Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA] B-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA] B-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial information [(b)(4) of the FOIA] B-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA] B-7 Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA] B-8 Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of financial institutions [(b)(S) of the FOIA] B-9 Release would disclose geological or geophysical information concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA] C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of gift. Published by RESEARCH CENTER FOR RELIGION AND 4 7 5 RIVERSIDE DRIVE HUMAN RIGHTS IN CLOSED SOCIETIES NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10115, USA 212-870-2481 or2440 !Hi / Blahoslav S. Hruby kl-JrljJI~ Executive Director and Editor /~~J RESEARCH CENTER FOR RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN CLOSED SOCIETIES Publishers of RCDA-Religion in Communist Dominated Areas FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE •GLASlfOST' AND COMKU10ST EUROPE• Marymount University, 2807 North Glebe Road, Arlingt.on, VA 22207 May 18-20, 1988 You are cordially invited to RCDA 's conference which will focus on a very timely topic, "Glasnost' and Communist Europe," just a few days before the summit meeting between President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev in Moscow. We are planning to discuss the situation of religion and human rights in all Communist states in Europe - Albania, the Baltic countries, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the USSR, and Yugoslavia. In addition, special lectures will examine the impact of Gorbachev' s policies on Communist Europe and on the Communist Party. All subjects will be addressed by experts in those particular areas, including Dr. Albert Boiter; Joan Dodek, Union of Councils for Soviet Jews; Mihajlo Mihajlov (Yugoslavia); Victor Nakas, Lithuanian Information Center (Baltic states); Nicolas Pentcheff (Bulgaria); Ayshe Seytmuratova (Crimean Tatars and Soviet Muslims); Prof. Nikolaos A. Stavrou (Albania), and others. The proceedings of the conference will be covered by Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. A press conference will be held on May 19th from 10:30 to 11:30 AM, at which many of the speakers may be fur­ ther probed. A detailed program of the conference will be available at the end of Apgl. The registration, room and all meals are $ 150 per person ($ 280 per couple). Participants from the Washingt.on, D.C., area will pay $ 60 for regis­ tration, two luncheons and two dinners. Please make your reservation as soon as possible - the number of ac­ commodations is limited. Checks are payable to RCDA. For additional information write to RCDA, 475 Riverside Drive, S. 448, New York, NY 10115, or call 212-870-2481. We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference! Dedicated to the Cause of WORLDWIDE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM and HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH CENTER for N"" RELIGION and HUMAN RIGHTS in CWSED SOCIETIES T be purpose of the Research Center is to collect, process, evaluate, translate and disseminate materials concerning religious freedom and other human rights in totalitarian countries. It provides information and docu­ mentation to government agencies, interna­ tional organizations, media and public. It organizes actions on behalf of persecuted Mrs. Natalia Solzhenitsyn addressing an RCDA press religious and political dissidents. Among those conference. Her interpreter is the Very Reverend whose case it had championed were: Leonid Kishkovsky, Assistant Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, and Vice President Alexander Solzhenitsyn, ofRCDA. Rev. Georgi Vins, Vladimir Bukovsky, This is what Mrs. Solzhenitsyn said of her rll'st encounter with our journal: .9' Alexander Ginzburg, N "I had in my hands the journal RCDA, and Anatoly Shcharansky, simply could not believe my eyes. And I saw there a detailed description of the difficulties Rev. Jan Simsa, of the monks in the Pochayev monastery. I Jiri Lederer, read one of the appeals of Father Gleb Yakunin. I read analyses and commentaries Vladimir Feltsman, about religious life of our country which could Tatiana Osipova, well have been written by one of us living in and the Siberian Seven. the USSR. And I ran with the journal to Alexander Isayevich [Solzhenitsyn] and cried The Research Center publishes RCDA­ to him: 'Look, look! In the West they know Religion in Communist Dominated Areas, the everything!' A little time went by and we soon only scholarly publication in the USA special­ learned that in the West they knew very little izing in reports on, and analysis of, the religious and understood very little, and that such people situation m Communist countries, with as Blahoslav Hruby and his wife Olga belong particular focus on the violation of religious - as always has been true in the past - to a freedom and human rights. very, very small flock." FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Hon. Gus Yatron, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee. CONFERENCE ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM HON. GUS YATRON of Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives Monday, June 8, 1987 MR. YATRON: Mr. Speaker, I rise to apprise my colleagues of the fourth annual conference of Religion in Communist Dominated Areas [RCDA] at Marymount University in Arlington, VA. RCDA endeavors to promote respect for religious Dedicated to the Cause freedom, and enhance public awareness of the problems encountered by individuals attempting tc exercise this of fundamental. internationally recognized right in Commu­ nist societies. As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Human Rights and International WORLDWIDE Organizations. I share those objectives. RCDA has done an outstanding job. and is widely respected for its work in this field. It has made a significant RELIGIOUS FREEDOM contribution to the cause of human rights and to the activities of the subcommittee. Last year. I conducted and hearings on religious persecution in the Soviet Union, and drew heavily on RCDA publications. conferences, and other resources. Its work has also provided the foundation HUMAN RIGHTS for many of the subcommittee's investigations and legislative activities. The subcommittee has been represented at the three previous conferences at Marymount University. The subjects have always been extremely timely, and relevant. This year's topic. 'The Millennium of the Christianization of Rus' and Religious Freedom and Human Rights in the Soviet Union," proved to be just as worthwhile and informational. The list of speakers and participants was most impressive. and brought together a wealth of expertise which assured success. I am convinced that efforts like these do make an important difference. Governments rarely admit that pressures created by such activities lead to positive results. But. prisoners are released. and at times conditions are eased because of public concern. In fact. I believe that some of the positive gestures which have occurred in Eastern Europe recently can be attributed to the constant work of RCDA and other important organizations. including the many concerned Members of Congress. RCDA 475 Riverside Drive, s. 448 Nev York, NY 10115 Tel. 212-870-2481 REGISTRATION FORM I shall attend the RCDA conference "Glasnost' and Communist Europe" at Marymoung University, Arlington, Virginia, on May 18-20, 1988. Enclosed is the fee for registration, room and board $ 150 [ ] [ ] I wish to extend my stay at Marymount for the night of May 17th [ ] May 20th [ ] at additional charge. Name Address ..................................................................................... Telephone • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I Association .................................................................................. Send announcements of the conference to the following: Paulius R. Klimas 533 South Winton Road Rochester, New York 14618 (716) 271-8897 April 12, 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev General Secretary of the Communist Party Moskva, Kremel Generalnomu Sekretaryu TsK KPSS Moscow, USSR Dear Gen~ral Secretary Gorbachev: I urgently appeal to you for the release of Petras Grazulis, the Lithuanian dissident imprisoned in a Soviet labor camp. I, and most Lithuanian-Americans, believe that he is an innocent man, and should be
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