Valery Senderov, a non-Jewish Moscow mathematician who helped compile statistical proof of the exclusion of Jews from institutions of higher learning in the USSR, was sentenced to 12 years’ punishment today, the maximum term for “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda,” it was reported by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.
Senderov, 37, will serve seven years in a labor camp and five years in internal exile. His Jewish colleague in the research effort, Boris Kanevsky, was sentenced to five years’ banishment in Siberia a month-and-a-half ago.
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