Alexander Maryasin, a leading Riga Jewish activist, has received an exit visa, according to Action for Soviet Jewry, a Boston group. Maryasin had been refused on the grounds he held “secrets” from his work as a vice-director of a factory, a post from which he was dismissed in 1971 because he “gave his daughter a bad education” by applying to leave for Israel.
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