The Boundaries of EC Competition Law: The Scope of Article 81

At the same time, we also inform you that, in accordance with the above-mentioned article, the right to demand from the authorities of the Federal Service of Security the data about the nature of the received information in regard to that person is available only to the person himself, whose guilt in committing a crime was not proved according to the procedures established by law. A. V. Tsarenko Deputy Chief It is not much of a consolation for Volodya and Masha to be told now by the KGB that VolodyaБЂ™s sentence to five years of exile was illegal. Volodya has decided to pursue the matter of his KGB files and will address his request directly to President Boris Yeltsin. There is no mention in the letter about LeonidБЂ™s request to see the KGB files on his grandfather, the Old Bolshevik, Solomon Slepak. I consider, too, my fascination with VolodyaБЂ™s story, the way it held me in its grasp for years after its proximate appeal evaporated. Why did interest linger? What was there about it that was so beguiling? Perhaps the writer as amanuensis, as one watching from the sidelines and recording in safety the savage struggles of the activist, and wishing he had that courage, that boldness, to plunge into the foulness of existence, engage its cruelties, chance the scars of flesh and mind, face the possibility of annihilation? The individual who crosses the boundary from bystander to activist and hazards his or her life to change the world-an eternal mystery how that choice is made, that moment of crossing, the wonder of that transfiguration ...»