We must continue to demand that the Soviets allow the Madrid review conference to proceed with a full discussion of the implementation of the human rights portions of the agreements. And for the Helsinki Accords to remain a positive facilitator of EastWest dialog on security. cultural. educational. and human rights issues. the Soviets must agree to a future review conference. There must always be a process by which Russia can be held accountable for its broken promises and by which the matters of human rights. family reunification. national selfdetermination and other fundamental freedoms can be openly discussed. There is no more important proof that these discussions must continue than the news that yesterday. Victor Brailovsky. a noted Soviet scientist who has been denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Israel. was arrested. I had the honor of meeting Victor Brailovsky when I was in Moscow in August 1979. He told me then that he and his wife applied for permission to leave the Soviet Union in 1972 and that they have been refused that permission many times since then. He told me of the harassment he faced then. including brief arrests. detentions. and apartment searches. After he applied to emigrate. Victor Brailovsky. like thousands of other Soviet refuseniks. lost his job. Since then. he has been active in the Moscow refusenik community and has led regular scientific seminars with other Jewish refusenik scientists.
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