1948. Nathan Scharansky was born
65 years ago, on January 20, 1948, Anatoly (Nathan) Scheransky, a Soviet dissident, who became a deputy of the Knesset and Minister in Donetsk, was born in Donetsk. In the USSR, Scharansky was an active participant in the movement of Jewish-Owls and became one of the founders of the Moscow group to monitor the observance of Helsinki agreements in the field of human rights. In 1978, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison on a falsified charges of espionage.