ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Wednesday, February 26, 1997 TAG: 9702260079
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: PARIS
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Writer Andrei Sinyavsky, jailed by the Soviet Union in 1966 after a celebrated political trial for publishing his works abroad, died Tuesday at his exile home outside Paris. He was 71 and had suffered a long illness.
In the Moscow trial, Sinyavsky was sentenced to seven years' hard labor for distributing writings critical of the totalitarian state. He was stripped of his Soviet citizenship.
His friend, Yuli Daniel, was tried with him and also found guilty of writing ``anti-Soviet propaganda.'' Daniel, who was sentenced to five years hard labor, served the term and died in 1988.
Sinyavsky was released from labor camp about 15 months early in 1971. He was allowed to leave the Soviet Union and settled in France with his wife, Mariya Rozanova. The Soviet Union restored his citizenship in the late 1980s.
- Associated Press
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