I would like to mention the case of only one of the manypersons caught in the web of discrimination and denial of human rights which is the reality of Soviet Russia today. Mr. Yuri Rodin is a 46yearold mathematician living in the Mos ow area. Since applying for a visa in 1979 to leave the Soviet Union to join his relatives in Israel. his position has become increasingly -perilous. In 1980 the authorities tried to fire him from his position in the Solid State Physics Institute of the Academy of Science. With an unusual show of courage. his colleagues refused to participate in the attempt to harass him. and as a result he was able to stay on the job.