More Soviet Dissidents Are Being Freed, Sources Say : Soviets to OK More Exits, Dissidents Say

The Soviet Union, which earlier this week freed dissident Anatoly Shcharansky in an East-West prisoner exchange, has begun to allow the departure of other opponents of the regime, dissident sources said today.

Two Jewish dissident brothers from the republic of Georgia said in a telephone interview that they had been informed earlier in the day by local authorities that their exit visas would be granted soon.

Meanwhile in Frankfurt, West Germany, officials of the IGFM international refugee society said three Soviet dissidents, members of an outlawed group aimed at improving relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, were expected in Vienna within 24 hours after having been allowed to emigrate.

The officials named the three as Nikolai Shramov and Alexei Luskinov, and his wife, Olga.

Although the couple had never been imprisoned, Shramov, a 22-year-old journalism student barred from attending classes, was jailed several times, IGFM said.

In their telephone conversation, Isai Goldshtein, 46, a computer scientist, and his brother Grigori, 55, a mathematician, said they expected to be given final clearance to leave by the end of next month, after the coming 27th Soviet Communist Party Congress.

The two, who first sought permission to emigrate in 1971, said the breakthrough for them came after a personal approach to the Kremlin on their behalf by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who met Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev here last week.

The brothers are members of a banned group called “Phantom,” set up 18 months ago by Georgian Jews barred from emigrating.