Natalie. alone. in Israel. For 2 years. Soviet officials have refused to consider Slavas emigration application separately from his parents. Igor and Inessa had hoped that a separate visa application would facilitate Slavas emigration by disassociating him from his family. Slava holds no state secrets. he has no college education. Soviet authorities. however. still hold him accountable for his grandmothers ties to the Soviet state. Slava continues in his efforts to be reunited with his wife and child in Israel. He reapplied for permission to emigrate. attaching copies of his marriage license and daughters birth certificate. In November 1988. he staged a hunger strike to bring attention to his and similar refusenik cases. His message has gone largely unheeded.
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