June 1, 1969

Efim Slavinsky, a translator, a graduate of Leningrad University, was arrested by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The search was carried out on charges under two articles of the Criminal Code - "drug trafficking" and "maintenance of a drug smoking den". Slavinsky himself was taken away from the house shortly after the start of the search; his wife, confused and frightened, signed the protocol after the search without making any protest. Meanwhile, in addition to boxes and vials of old medicines, in addition to a small amount of powder, identified by the searchers as "" marijuana ", 65 books without an inventory, immersed in a paper bag and sealed, a number of papers, notebooks, a diary, were confiscated from SLAVINSKY. all without description, in the same bag. What can go missing from these bags, and more importantly, what can get into them? But this is a violation that readers of the Chronicle have encountered more than once. This is reported by the Chronicle of Current Events in issue 8 of June 30, 1969.