Volume 34, Number 13 · August 13, 1987
New Mag in Moscow
By Martin Garbus
Sergei Grigoryants, who was released this February after serving ten of the last thirteen years in the severest Soviet prisons, is testing the limits of glasnost. He is courageously publishing in the Soviet Union a magazine called Glasnost that contains political, literary, cultural, and religious writings of a kind not seen in Russia since the early 1920s. In July Mr. Grigoryants arranged for me to get a copy of the fifty-six page magazine, which is issued on typewritten pages in a small number of copies. He had never met me before, but he knew that in 1976 I had taken out of the USSR Andrei Sakharov's letter to President Jimmy Carter, which had influenced Carter's human rights policy. Two weeks before we met he had asked the Soviet authorities for permission to publish the new magazine openly. Not having heard from his government, he risked his freedom by asking me to take Glasnost out of the country and try to get it published.
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