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PREM19/2547
Soviet Union (Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry: Prime Minister's interest in cases of Ida Nudel, Anatoly Shcharansky, Alexander Paritsky) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Secret
Page count: 331
Any docs withheld? 3
Themes: Religion & morality, Civil liberties, Race, immigration, nationality, British relations with the Soviet Union, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (International organizations), Women

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Date Value Title
83 Feb 9 We Major Soviet Union: Co-Chair of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuse in the Soviet Union: the Anatoly Shcharansky case) [UK representations; latest development] [released Jul 2017]
83 Feb 9 We Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 141 to FCO (1240Z) ("Anatoly Shcharansky") [human rights abuse case: TASS statement] [released Jul 2017]
83 Feb 18 Fr Minor Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Patricia van Emst (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Shcharansky case) [historical correspondence with the UN] [released Jul 2017]
83 Mar 12 Sa Major Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 614 to FCO (0435Z) ("Mrs Shcharansky") [human rights abuses: US intervention] [released Jul 2017]
83 Mar 15 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Alexander Paritsky case) [UK representations & latest position] [released Jul 2017]
83 Mar 15 Tu Major Soviet Union: MT message to the Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry (the plight of Soviet Jewry) [pledge of ongoing Western support] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 8 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to MT ("Mrs Scharansky") [case for & against meeting with Mrs Shcharansky, to discuss her husband's ongoing imprisonment] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 14 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 762 to FCO (0657Z) ("Sakharov") [Yelena Bonner, US Ambassador to Moscow; Genscher, Gromyko: record of conversations] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 14 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 552 to FCO (0542Z) ("Schcharansky") [record of conversation: UK Ambassador, US Ambassador] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 15 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Avital Shcharansky, Lord Bethell) ["prospects of using the Madrid Conference for obtaining the release of [Anatoly] Shcharansky"] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 15 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 788 to FCO (1000Z) ("Shcharansky") [Madrid Conference: US/UK pressure on Soviets to release Shcharansky] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 19 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Alexander Paritsky case) [latest position; "doing all we can to keep up the pressure on the Soviet authorities"] [released Jul 2017]
83 Jul 19 Tu Major Soviet Union: Co-Chair of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Anatoly Shcharansky case) [MT meeting with Avital Shcharansky; Madrid Conference] [released Jul 2017]
83 Nov 4 Fr Major Soviet Union: Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to No.10 (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Alexander Paritsky case) [latest development] [released Jul 2017]
84 Jan 6 Fr Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry") [advice on request that MT write foreword to booklet commemorating 7th anniversary of Anatoly Shcharansky's imprisonment] [released Jul 2017]
84 Feb 13 Mo Major Soviet Union: Co-Chairs of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Anatoly Shcharansky case) [hope that MT can achieve breakthrough with new Soviet leadership] [released Jul 2017]
84 Mar 9 Fr Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mrs Ida Nudel") [human rights abuses: request for MT to take up case with Soviet ambassador] [released Jul 2017]
84 Mar 15 Th Major Soviet Union: Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry letter to No.10 (human rights abuses in the Soviet Union: the Alexander Paritsky case) [latest developments] [released Jul 2017]
84 Mar 29 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Howe PS (Prime Minister's message to the Conference of Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry) [draft] [released Jul 2017]
84 Sep 10 Mo Major Soviet Union: Chair of the Women's Committee for Polina Paritsky (detention of Alexander Paritsky) [news of Paritsky's release] [released Jul 2017]