A Chronicle of Current Events (Russian: Khronika tekushchikh sobytiy) was a landmark samizdat periodical in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union, first appearing in April 1968 and quickly becoming the primary voice of the Soviet human rights movement both domestically and abroad. Over its 15-year run, the newsletter meticulously documented state repression, covering 424 political trials in which all 753 defendants were convicted (with zero acquittals) and reporting on 164 individuals who were forcibly declared insane and confined to psychiatric hospitals. Despite relentless KGB harassment, more than 60 issues were circulated between 1968 and 1983, though one issue was confiscated and the final edition (No. 64) only reached readers in August 1983, with issue No. 65 never going into circulation. The publication was founded by a group including poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya, writer Ilya Gabay, and physicist Pavel Litvinov, who were inspired by earlier samizdat works like Anatoly Marchenko's My Testimony and the letters of imprisoned writers Yuli Daniel and Andrey Sinyavsky. Initially titled Human Rights Year in the Soviet Union (for its first five issues), it drew on the model of earlier bulletins from repressed groups, such as the Crimean Tatar newsletter, to create a broader, regular chronicle of civil rights violations. The Chronicle stands as a vital historical record of dissent, offering an uncensored account of the struggle for justice in an era of pervasive state control.