Кеңес диссидені және эмиграцияға рұқсат алмай қалған Эдуард Кузнецов

Soviet dissident and refusenik

Edward Samoilovich Kuznetsov (Эдуа́рд Само́йлович Кузнецо́в, ; born 29 January 1939) is a Soviet Israeli dissident, refusenik, journalist, and writer. One of the leaders of the 1970 Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair, Kuznetsov's case drew international attention following his death sentence. As a result of global protests, his sentence was commuted to fifteen years' imprisonment. Dymshits was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States, and he subsequently made aliyah to Israel. Throughout the 1980s, Kuznetsov participated in the operations of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty before beginning the publication of the Russian language Vesti in 1992. Kuznetsov is also a writer, having written three novels (two of which were written during his prison sentence and smuggled out of the country).

Kuznetsov was born in 1939. He studied at the philosophy department of Moscow State University. While at university, Kuznetsov became involved with the first unsanctioned samizdat (self published) magazines. In 1958 61, he co edited the underground literary journals Sintaksis and Boomerang, and helped compile the samizdat poetry anthology Phoenix. His case "opened the doors of emigration to thousands of Soviet Jews." In the 1970s, Kuznetsov shared a prison cell with Danylo Shumuk for five years. In 1979, he and four other dissidents (Dymshits, Baptist preacher Georgi Vins, samizdat writer Alexander Ginzburg, and Ukrainian nationalist Valentyn Moroz) were exchanged for two Soviet spies arrested in the United States. In 2005, Kuznetsov participated in "They Chose Freedom", a four part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement. He currently lives in Jerusalem, Israel and is a board member of the Gratitude Fund, an organisation supplying financial aid to former Soviet dissidents.