Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to introduce a House resolution calling upon the Soviet Union to allow refusenik Leonid Brailovsky to emigrate to the United States in order to attend the University of Pennsylvania. I am deeply concerned by the current emigration policy under glasnost and I feel that this resolution can have an important impact on the situation. In the past. congressional action has led to the release and emigration of famous refuseniks like Anatoly Sharansky. Yuri Orlov and Anatoly Korigan. Leonid and his family first applied for permission to emigrate in 1972. They received their first official notification of refusal in January 1973. Leonids youngest sister. Dalia. born in 1974. has lived her entire life as a refusenik. The official reason from the OVIR [Office of Visa and Immigration Review] for their repeated refusals is that Leonids mother. Irina. acquired state secrets as a lecturer at Moscow University. This allegation has been contradicted by the rector of the university.
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