Editing Glasnost (section)

===The dissidents===
On 5 December 1965 the [[Glasnost meeting|Glasnost rally]] took place in Moscow, considered to be a key event in the emergence of the Soviet civil rights movement.<ref>Peter Reddaway, Uncensored Russia, 1972, "The Case of Sinyavsky and Daniel", pp. 61-71</ref> Protesters at [[Pushkin Square]] led by [[Alexander Yesenin-Volpin]] demanded access to the closed trial of [[Yuli Daniel|Yuly Daniel]] and [[Andrei Sinyavsky]]. The protestors made specific requests for "glasnost", herein referring to the specific admission of the public, independent observers and foreign journalists, to the trial that had been legislated in the then newly issued RSFSR Code of Criminal Procedure. Article 111 of the Code stated that, with a few specified exceptions, judicial hearings in the USSR should be held in public.

Such protests against closed trials continued throughout the post-Stalin era. [[Andrei Sakharov]], for example, did not travel to Oslo to receive his [[Nobel Peace Prize]] due to his public protest outside a Vilnius court building demanding access to the 1976 trial of [[Sergei Kovalev]], an editor of the ''[[Chronicle of Current Events]]'' and prominent rights activist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chronicle-of-current-events.com/2016/03/07/38-2-before-the-trials-of-kovalyov-and-tverdokhlebov/|title=Before the Trials of Kovalyov and Tverdokhlebov, March-October 1975 (38.2)|date=7 March 2016}}</ref>