Eduard Kuznetsov, who has died aged 85, was the main leader of a group of Soviet Jewish refuseniks who, in 1970, plotted to hijack a small charter flight from an airport near Leningrad and escape to ...

(credit: Yehoshua Halevi/Getty Images) On Sunday, a forgotten hero from a different battle – the battle to free Soviet Jewry – passed away at the age of 85: Eduard Kuznetsov. He was one of 16 ...

The international outcry meant he was only sentenced to 15 years in the gulag for having tried to hijack a charter flight to escape the USSR Eduard Kuznetsov, who has died aged 85, was the main ...