Russian poet and dissident who was sentenced to seven years in a labour camp by the Soviet authorities and found refuge in the UK in the 1980sEarly on the morning of 10 October 1986, Igor Gerashchenko, the husband of the dissident Soviet poet Irina Ratushinskaya, phoned Keston College, the centre for the study of religion in communist countries then based at Keston, in Kent. “Irina is free,” he told us: relayed to the BBC and thence to the world, this news upstaged the event for which the media had been waiting – the opening of the Reykjavik summit between the …read more
Source: The Guardian
