Russia - Sharansky returns to KGB prison

(30 Jan 1997) T/I: 10:23:42


The former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, now Israeli Trade and Commerce Minister, on Thursday visited the infamous Lefortovo KGB prison where he was been held in the Soviet era.

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA 30/1:
ws Israeli Trade and Commerce minister Natan Sharansky walks out of
Lefortovo prison ;
ca photographs ;
Sharansky walks out of prison with his wife
cu Sharansky and wife walk pushed by Russian guards and surrounded by camera crews ;
pan sign reads : "Lefortovo street" ;
ws Sharansky surrounded by journalists giving an improptu press conference
cu Sharansky SOT in English : " It wasn't painful because I feel that that is the place - the prison and the punishing cell - where I got my most important victory. I was very proud to show this place to my wife ca open air press conference;
cu Sharansky SOT in Russian : "Of course I was not waiting for any apology. The regime I fought with does not exist any more. The people who backed it then have lost and even if some of them are still on duty in some organisation, they lost in the big way ;
ws building of jewish school ;
cu sign reads : "national jewish school" ;
ws Sharansky speaks to children in a class room ;
cu Sharansky ;
cu Sharansky's wife ;
ms Sharansky speaks to children ;
two girls listening ;
cu girl listening ;
ms Sharansky looking at a child working on a computer ;
ms Sharansky talking with children and loosing his yarmolka ;
ms David's star on a wall.

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