Trial of propagandist N. Brox-Sokolov in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. July 10, 1968. Court chairperson Zoya Yakovleva (center) during a hearing on the case of Venezuelan Nicholas Brox-Sokolov, a member of the opposition political organization of Russian emigration, the People's Labor Union of Russian Solidarists, accused of anti-Soviet propaganda. The case of N. Brox-Sokolov was part of the political trial against samizdat activists in the USSR A. I. Ginzburg, Yu. T. Galanskov, A. A. Dobrovolsky and V. I. Lashkova, who published the collection "White Book" in defense of Soviet writers A. D. Sinyavsky and Yu. M. Daniel, who were serving sentences for publishing their works abroad. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS