Dina Kaminskaya
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Dina Isaakovna Kaminskaya (13 January 1919, Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine - 7 July 2006, Falls Church, Virginia) was a lawyer and human rights activist in the Soviet Union, forced to emigrate in 1977 to avoid arrest. She and her husband moved to the United States.
The writer Yuli Daniel engaged Kaminskaya as his lawyer when, in December 1965, he was prosecuted with Andrei Sinyavsky, but the state refused to allow her to speak up in court on his behalf. She went on to defend - as far as the Soviet authorities would let her in a legal system designed as an instrument of Soviet power - Vladimir Bukovsky in 1967. She also defended Yuri Galanskov (who would die in a Soviet labour camp), Anatoli Marchenko (who would also die in camp), Larisa Bogoraz and Pavel Litvinov, and the Crimean Tatar activist Mustafa Jemilev.
Kaminskaya was prevented from defending Bukovsky in his 1971 trial and Sergei Kovalyov in 1975. In 1977, after being stripped of her licence to practise as a lawyer, she was barred from defending Anatoli Shcharansky.
Singer Yuly Kim estimated the efforts and honesty of Dina Kaminskaya and very few other defensors who insisted that there is no any cryminal element in actions of their clients accised in the anti-soviet propaganda.[1]
Kaminskaya's book Final Judgment: my life as a Soviet defense attorney, was published in English in 1982 [2]
Kaminskaya was married to Konstantin Simis, and they had one son, Dimitri K. Simes.
The recent publication [3] qualifies Dina Kaminskaya and Sofia Kallistratova as "stars of advocature".
[edit] References
- ^ Yuly Kim. Advocat"s wals. (in Russian) Ю.Ким. Адвокатский вальс. http://www.memo.ru/library/books/sw/chapt18.htm
- ^ Final Judgment: My Life as a Soviet Defense Attorney by Dina Kaminskaya. Michigan Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 4, 1984 Survey of Books Relating to the Law (Feb., 1984), pp. 902-905 doi:10.2307/1288692 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-2234(198402)82%3A4%3C902%3AFJMLAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
- ^ Stars of Advocature (ЗВЕЗДЫ АДВОКАТУРЫ), Newspaper "Ежедневные НОВОСТИ", Владивосток (in Russian), http://novosti.vl.ru/?f=ag&t=000818ag03
[edit] More references
- Joe Holley.Dina Kaminskaya; Lawyer Defended Soviet Dissidents. Washington Post, Saturday, July 15, 2006; Page B06; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401598.html http://www.nixonfoundation.org/index.php?src=news&prid=134&category=News%2C%20Reviews%20%26%20Commentary
- PATRICIA BLAKE. Verdict on Soviet Justice. (May. 02, 1983) Reprinted by Time, Sunday, May 17. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953848,00.html
- Moscow Helsinki Group (Public Group of the Assistance of the Implementation of Helsinki Accords in the USSR, Moscow Group “Helsinki”), http://www.mhg.ru/english/18E49C2
- Giganty i Charodei Slova. Russkie Sudebnye Oratory Vtoroi Poloviny XIX. Nachala XX Veka by V. I. Smolyarchuk
Final Judgement. My Life as a Soviet Defence Lawyer by Dina Kaminskaya Zapiski Advokata by Dina Kaminskaya Author(s) of Review: Rene Beermann Soviet Studies, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Oct., 1985), pp. 561-563 http://www.mhg.ru/english/18E49C2
- Felix Corley. Dina Kaminskaya, Lawyer to Soviet dissidents. "The independent", 03 August 2006, http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1211267.ece
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