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EXTENSIONS of REMARKS 24679 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS GLASNOST, CONTINUED in Making His Intentions Public September 21, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24679 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS GLASNOST, CONTINUED in making his intentions public. He notified some of whose critical samizdat studies of the authorities of every step and, in a letter the economy have been published abroad, to the Central Committee of the Commu­ "The Technology of the Black Market: The HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL nist Party; requested facilities for printing Peasants' Art of Starving" and "The Last OF ILLINOIS in accordance with a new law that allows Hope of Survival," for example. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES private individuals to set up small business­ He was slapped with an 11-year sentence Monday, September 21, 1987 es. in 1985 for peddling "anti-Soviet propagan­ He also made it clear that if he did not get da," but he also found himself among those Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, periodically this help, he would proceed anyway. pardoned in February. His Glasnost article have been inserting in the RECORD news The magazine was originally scheduled to discusses the current search for a language about a new Soviet publication named "Glas­ appear in June, but awaiting the response of other than socialist jargon to analyze the nost." Perhaps I should say it is a publication the authorities, Mr. Grigoryants postponed workings of the Soviet administrative that appears in the Soviet Union and not a the inaugural issue until July 3. A month system. "Soviet publication" since the latter term sug­ after his application, the State Committee Mr. Timofeev also describes the market as on Publications, to which his letter had the driving force behind all economic gests an official Soviet organ of news or opin­ been forwarded, politely declined to lend its ion. To the contrary-this Glasnost is a publi­ progress. Even the lethargic Soviet system support; under present conditions, the com­ would never have stood this long, he argues, cation of citizens of the Soviet Union, but is in mittee said, it did not really see the need for without a thriving black market economy to no way a part of the state apparatus. It is not another magazine in the Soviet Union, hold it up. a "samizdat" publication, either, for unlike which already has an abundance of publica­ In addition to information on the growth such "unofficial" literature, glasnost is pub­ tions. of political discussion clubs and seminars lished quite openly and Soviet officials have But the response did not explicitly forbid taking place in Moscow and Leningrad, the been made aware of its existence by its writ­ Mr. Grigoryants to go ahead, so he did. The journal also includes news of a proposal for magazine is being produced under difficult the creation of a cooperative publishing ers and editors. circumstances-with volunteer typing and The fate of "gflasnost" magazine will deter­ house. The initiative came from well-known use of carbon paper. Photocopying, which writers and has received support even ftom mine to a great part the fate of the concept of would have facilitated the process, is tradi­ "Glasnost" itself. Will the openness spoken of the Soviet Writers' Union. But Goskomiz­ tionally unavailable in the Soviet Union be­ dat, the State Publishing Committee, has so often by Mr. Gorbachev be able to accom­ cause it would facilitate such processes. This been delaying the application, and its chair­ modate a magazine that does not follow the limits initial production to some 100 copies, man, M.F. Nenashev, has argued optimisti­ party line? Will glasnost, the magazine, go which are retyped in Moscow and elsewhere: cally that "perhaps co-op publishing houses beyond mere criticism of certain actions taken Leningrad, Sverdlovsk, Kiev. Glasnost is are not needed at all .... Under the condi­ by the state and begin to openly question the translated into English by the Center for tions of restructuring, state publishing Democracy, a human rights organization in houses, of course, manage to cope with all vanguard status of the party itself? New York City. Much remains to be seen, but the process The purpose of the publication is to probe problems that arise." of publication has begun. We should be aware the seriousness of Mr. Gorbachev's pro­ Recently, Izvestia put the point rather of the fate of this magazine and of its editor, claimed policy. Says Yuri Yarim-Agaev, ex­ more bluntly. Such a publishing house, it Sergei I. Grigoryants. ecutive director of the Center for Democra­ argued, would be the thin end of the wedge, cy, "The magazine is not meant merely to a slide down the slippery slope to "pornog­ At this point I wish to insert in the RECORD, raphy." "As I see it," says exiled Russian "Where in Russia Can You Read About Glas­ dispute the official glasnost, but to comple­ ment it. The main idea is to create an inde­ writer Semyon Reznik, "this is also an indi­ nost? Glasnost," the Washington Times, Sep­ rect answer to Glasnost journal." tember 17, 1987. pendent publication in the Soviet Union. Mr. Grigoryants' magazine is an important The magazine also contains a list of politi­ WHERE IN RussiA CAN You READ ABouT test of how far the Soviet government is cal prisoners serving in Chistopol Prison, GLASNOST? GLASNOST ready to go." with updates concerning their condition. <By Henrik Bering-Jensen) In this respect, the choice of the maga­ This is the prison where Mr. Grigoryants Is Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost half zine's title is no accident. It might look like himself was held. empty, half full or something else altogeth­ extremely bad form if the authorities decid­ In the future, the journal will treat these er? To test the water level on the Soviet ed to shut down a magazine that bears the issues in greater depth, in particular the leader's policy of greater openness in ad­ name of the Soviet leader's own policy. fate of recently released political prisoners. dressing the internal problems of the coun­ As for the editor, this is not his first expe­ According to Mr. Reznik, apart from the try, a group of dissidents has now obligingly rience with publication. By background a fact that only a minority of Soviet political volunteered to take him-literally-at his literary critic, Mr. Grigoryants was sen­ prisoners have been released, even those word. The result: a new, wholly independent tenced in 1983 to seven years in prison and who are now free find themselves in a very magazine full of candid advice and helpful three years of internal exile under the noto­ precarious position. In an article in the hints as to how the Soviet Union can be rious Article 70 of the Soviet criminal code, Paris emigrant weekly Russkaya Mysl <Rus­ made a nicer place to live. Its name: none which forbids anti-Soviet agitation and sian Thought), exiled dissidents Irena and other than Glasnost itself. propaganda, for his attempt to publish an Alexander Ginzburg mention that many Whether this contribution to the public independent bulletin on human rights. He former political prisoners-Andrei Mironov, debate is exactly what Gorbachev had in was released in February, following the Vladimir Skvirsky and Aleksey Myasnikov, mind remains to be seen, not least by its much publicized annoncement by the au­ among others-face difficulties in obtaining editor, Sergei I. Grigoryants, a former polit­ thorities that 150 dissidents would be freed. a propiska, a special passport stamp that ical prisoner. As Mr. Grigoryants has em­ The new journal has no editorial board as grants the bearer permission to live in a phasized, Glasnost is not samizdat, or unof­ such: it is more an ad hoc enterprise. The given area. It is an effective means for the ficial literature. From the beginning, he de­ first issue includes a reprint of a statement Soviet authorities to keep track of the popu­ cided to do everything in the open. "We by the famed dissident scientist Andrei D. lation. want to go through all the legal channels," Sakharov demanding a revision of the Not having the stamp means breaking the he stated in May when the magazine was in Soviet criminal code, but according to Mr. passport law, and friends of former political its planning stages. "We don't want to do Yarim-Agaev, Glasnost will not restrict prisoners who take them in are equally anything secretly or underground." itself to purely human rights issues. The liable for punishment. Others, like mathe­ Some former samizdar writers contend magazine also considers social and economic matician Vladimir Albrekht, have gotten that in the past they made no attempts to problems of Soviet society. the stamp but cannot get jobs, not even as conceal their products, but it is clear that Another contributor to the first issue is street cleaners. This makes them liable to Mr. Grigoryants has gone farther than most the writer and economist Lev Timofeev, charges of "parasitism." e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 24680 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 21, 1987 According to Mr. Reznik, the sum of this press?"-an observation that some dissi­ human history. Throughout history, those is that the government still has a hold over dents find reminiscent of the "Why should menaced by offensive weapons have sought these people. "The authorities can raise the workers want to strike in the workers' defensive ones with which to protect them­ these questions at any time and put people state?" school of argument.
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