Sisters in Moscow refuge strike to win emigration

By With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Karla Vallance

January 7, 1982

Moscow

Two religious fundamentalists who have been living in the US Embassy for more than three years are on hunger strike to highlight their demands to emigrate from the Soviet Union.

Augustina and Lydua Vashchenko have been taking only tea and fruit juice since Dec. 28.