Leningrad activist Dr. Alexander Boguslavsky has received an exit visa to Israel, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry has learned. The 48-year-old shipbuilding engineer has been seeking exit for over three years. His brother, Victor Boguslavsky, now in Israel, was sentenced to three years at the second Leningrad trial in May, 1971 for publicly denouncing the mass arrests of “refusenik” Jews on June 15, 1970.
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