Evgeny Pisarevsky and his wife Irina were both born in 1945. and their son Vladimir was born in 1969. Evgeny is a computer engineer who until 1978 was employed in a classified occupation. After waiting 10 years. his wife Irina and their son Vladimir applied for permission to emigrate in 1988 but were refused. Vladimirs application to emigrate independently was also rejected. In protest. Irina joined a group called Jewish Women Against Refusal and participated in a 3day hunger strike in March 1989. to mark International Womens Day. In August 1989. Vladimir was given permission to emigrate. but in October he was told his parents could not go with him until 1995. He then used his exit visa and left for Rome en route to the United States. leaving behind not only his parents. but also his fiancee. Inna Nemtchinsky. who had hoped to emigrate with him. Vladimir now lives in New York. In December 1989. yet another Pisarevsky request to emigrate was refused. In November 1990. while visiting Vladimir in New York on a tourist visa. Irina heard from Evgeny that his former employer. Impulse Scientific Production Association. on orders from the Ministry of Defense. had once again refused to lift his secrecy classification. a rating used repeatedly by authorities to keep him from leaving the U.S.S.R.
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