Boris Kolendarov, a 21-year-old Leningrad refusnik and unofficial Hebrew teacher, was arrested March 8, evidently on an accusation of “draft evasion,” the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry has learned. He had been dismissed from the Polytechnical Institute when he sought to emigrate.
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