Yuri Brind and her sister. Elena Fridman. both of whom live in Israel. The "guardian angel" on behalf of other prisoners of conscience. while she waited 7 fruitless years for permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union and be reunited with her family in Israel. celebrated her birthday alone in Krivosheino among hostile townspeople who lately accuse this frail woman suffering from ulcers and kidney. liver. and heart problems of poisoning the local water supply. It is the latest crisis to have befallen this brave woman that a newspaper of the region Tomsk Oblast should accuse her of such an outrageous act against the local populace. which is already suspicious of this socalled criminal exiled. in their midst. The newspaper accuses her too of paying off her visitors who travel as far as 2.000 miles to break through her isolation and bring her solace and news from the outside world.
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Accusation of poisoning the local water supply.