Leningrad refusnik Boris Kalendarov will go on trial May 14 on draft evasion charges, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) has learned. If convicted, Kalendarov, 21, faces a sentence of one-and-a-half to three years. His trial will be the first of a Jewish activist in Leningrad since nine Jews were convicted of “anti-Soviet activity” in the infamous Second Leningrad Trial in May 1971. He first applied to emigrate to Israel in 1973 and was refused.
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