Several long-time refuseniks have been given permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union, the Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry reported. They are: Victor Gliner and Alexander Yompolosky, from Leningrad; and Tatyana Levinson, Alexander Khazinov, Boris and Marina Shainus, Ala Abersomson and the Golkhberg and Rosenberg families, all of Moscow.
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