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A saga of a refusenik family set in Moscow in the 1980s. Look up refusenik in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Media related to Refuseniks at Wikimedia

Bumšteinas The Refuseniks, a precursor group to the Claudia Quintet This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Refusenik. If an internal

claimed that the refuseniks' actions are helping the enemies of Israel in their anti-Israeli incitement. Some have even accused the refuseniks of treason during

" These conscientious objectors refer to themselves as refuseniks, a reference to the refusenik Jews of Soviet Russia. In 2004, Courage to Refuse and one

death, persecution of Jews would continue until the late 1980s (see: refuseniks). Under the rule of the tsars, Russian Jews were classified as inorodtsy

Refusenik is a 2007 documentary film by Laura Bialis that chronicles the struggle of Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. A

sociological topics. His initial political work starting in 1969 concerned Refuseniks, Soviet Jews who were denied permission to emigrate. He gradually began

was formed to represent the interests of Russian immigrants by former refuseniks Natan Sharansky and Yuli-Yoel Edelstein. Initially a centrist party, it

Union collapsed, many of the Jews in the affected territory (who had been refuseniks) were suddenly allowed to leave. This produced a wave of migration to

spokesman for the Moscow Helsinki Group and a leader for the rights of refuseniks. On 15 March 1977 Sharansky was arrested by the KGB, then headed by Yuri