Boris Kanevsky, a 38-year-old Soviet Jewish mathematician was sentenced on January 21 by a Moscow court to five, years of internal exile on the charge that he circulated “fabrications known to be false which defame the Soviet state and social system,” it was reported today by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Kanevsky, a refusenik and the first Jew to be sentenced in the new year, reportedly accumulated statistical data on anti-Semitism in Soviet institutions of higher education in a treatise entitled “Intellectual Suicide.” His studies disclosed that special admission examinations, comprised of unusually difficult problems, were administered to Jewish students seeking entry into Moscow’s prestigious institutions, among them, the Moscow State University.
Kanevsky’s sentencing raises to 13 the number of Jewish Prisoners of Conscience who are serving prison labor camp or internal exile terms, the Conference reported.
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