An employee of the Ovir office in Moscow has informed Dr. Benjamin Levich that an exit visa has once more been denied him for “regime considerations.” for knowing alleged secrets, according to reports reaching the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. (NCSJ).
Levich, who is the highest ranking Soviet scientist to apply to emigrate to Israel, said he faces an “impenetrable wall of arbitrariness and dead silence.” When Levich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, first applied to emigrate in 1972 he lost his posts with an institute, five scientific committees, two editorial boards and the chair he held at Moscow State University.
At the same time, the NCSJ reported that Moscow activist Ilya Levina, who had been under surveillance prior to the recently aborted Moscow Symposium on Jewish Culture, has been sentenced to 15 days for “hooliganism.”
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