Volume 42, Number 17 · November 2, 1995

Just Like Old Times

By Michael Scammell

In April 1982 I wrote in these pages about the case of the Russian literary critic, Konstantin Azadovsky, who was framed by the KGB on charges of drug possession ['The Azadovsky Case,' NYR, April 15, 1982, p. 35]. Some marijuana was planted in his study and then supposedly 'found' by the local police, and the innocent Azadovsky was sentenced to two years of hard labor in Siberia.



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