Yevgeny Levich, the 27-year-old Moscow astrophysicist, has been released from a military camp in Siberia and his parents have been told to pick him up, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported. Levich was taken into custody last May after the entire family applied for exit visas. He received two draft deferments on grounds of illness and had been seriously ill in prison.
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