The Glasnost Meeting (glasnost rally, "meeting of openness", Russian: Ми́тинг гла́сности ) was the first spontaneous public political demonstration in the Soviet Union after the Second World War.
 It took place in Moscow on 5 December 1965 as a response to the trial of writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel.
 The demonstration is considered to mark the beginning of a movement for civil rights in the Soviet Union.
The Sinyavsky–Daniel trial (Russian: Проце́сс Синя́вского и Даниэ́ля ) was a trial against Russian writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel which took place in Moscow in February 1966.
 Sinyavsky and Daniel were convicted under the offense of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda for publishing their satirical writings abroad.
 They were sentenced to seven and five years in strict regime labor camps, respectively.
Yunost (Russian: Ю́ность , "Youth") is a Russian language literary magazine created in 1955 in Moscow (initially as a USSR Union of Writers' organ) by Valentin Kataev, its first editor-in-chief, who was fired in 1961 for publishing Vasily Aksyonov's "Ticket to the Stars".
 In "Yunost", which appealed to the young intellectual readership and contained an impressive poetry section, were premiered some significant, occasionally controversial (from the Soviet censorship's point of view) works of Anna Akhmatova, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava, Nikolay Rubtsov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrey Voznesensky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Boris Vasilyev, Andrei Molchanov, Rimma Kazakova, Mikhail Zadornov, Fazil Iskander, Vasily Aksyonov, Anatoly Gladilin, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Grigory Gorin, Nikolay Leonov and others.
 In 1980s, circulation of the magazine was more that 3 million copies.
 Since 1991 "Yunost" is an independently published journal.
Alexander Ivanovich Vvedensky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Введе́нский ; 1904–1941) was a Russian poet and dramatist with formidable influence on "unofficial" and avant-garde art during and after the times of the Soviet Union.
 Vvedensky is widely considered (among contemporary Russian writers and literary scholars) as one of the most original and important authors to write in Russian in the early Soviet period.
 He is placed on par with writers such as Andrei Platonov for innovation in the language.
 Vvedensky considered his own poetry "a critique of reason more powerful than Kant's."
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Shcherbakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Щербако́в ; 1901 – 10 May 1945), was a founding member of the Soviet Writers' Union, along with Maxim Gorky.
 Following the latter's death in 1936, Shcherbakov was transferred from his role as First Secretary to the lower role of Second Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee where he reported to Andrei Zhdanov.
 He was also a notable critic of Ivan Gronsky.
 He became First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Party Committee in 1938, a post he held until his death.
The Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage (1990-2007) was an annual literary prize established in the Soviet Union by the "Writers in Support of Perestroika" association (also known as the "Aprel" (April) association) in October 1990.
 It ceased to exist in 2007 when the "Aprel" Association was wound up.
Igor Markovich Yefimov or Igor Efimov (Russian: И́горь Ма́ркович Ефи́мов; born August 8, 1937, Moscow) is an American (since 1978) philosopher, writer and publisher of Russian origin.
 Some of his works were published under the pen name Andrei Moscovit.
 Together with , Sergei Dovlatov, , and , he founded the Leningrad writers' group "City Dwellers" (Russian "Gorozhane"), whose works circulated in samizdat.
 He is a founder of Hermitage Publishers, publisher of works by such writers as Sergei Dovlatov.
William James "Will" Durant ( ; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American writer, historian, and philosopher.
 He is best known for "The Story of Civilization", 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975.
 He was earlier noted for "The Story of Philosophy" (1926), described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy".
Andrei Lupan (15 February 1912, Mihuleni - 24 August 1992, Chişinău) was a writer, politician, and chairman of Moldovan Writers' Union (1946–1955; 1958–1961).
Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov (Russian: Андре́й Гео́ргиевич Би́тов , born Leningrad, 27 May 1937) is a prominent Russian writer.

Question: Are Andrei Bitov and Will Durant both writers?
Answer: yes