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What is a refusenik?

What is a refusenik? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Soviet Union, slang, historical) One of the Jewish citizens of the former Soviet Union who were refused permission to emigrate.
  2. (colloquial) A person characterized by a particular refusal (especially one related to human rights).
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You do not have to be a UKIP refusenik to recognise that these tensions are becoming intolerable.
The director of Aish HaTorah's Russian Program is Rabbi Eliyahu Essas, a former refusenik from the Soviet Union.
I envy my refusenik friends their steadfast commitments to stay in, and contentment in doing so.
Goodman worked out of New York where he and Myrna Shinbaum would gather up-to-date data about each refusenik in its files and disseminate the details.
Among us is the former Soviet refusenik, Natan Sharansky, who is now Israel's Minister for Diaspora Affairs.
But others echo concerns elsewhere in the EU about his potential as a refusenik.

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