Talk:Jackson–Vanik amendment

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Update needed?

• Congress upgrades trade status with Ukraine: Repeals Cold War era restrictions

I've read that Jews have traditionally been considered a national rather than religious minority in Russia, thus the wording of the first sentence would seem to be slightly misleading: "…emigration, especially of refuseniks, Jews, and other religious minorities." (in terms of the word "other")

Perhaps someone with more expertise could comment? Historian932 (talk) 00:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• That is correct. 178.177.98.152 (talk) 20:18, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I find this sentence, in the section pertaining to effects of J-V, to be rather odd: "The number of exit visas declined after the passing of the amendment, as the USSR felt the external pressure was harming its credibility." If the Soviet Union felt that the pressure was "harming its credibility," then it makes no sense that their response to the amendment was to deny exit visas increasingly.

So there are two outcomes possible:

1) The Soviets increased the number of exit visas because their credibility was being harmed internationally (due to the J-V amendment, among other things). 2) The Soviets decreased the number of exit visas despite the fact that their credibility was being harmed internationally.

But the sentence as it stands is illogical. Isoruku (talk) 16:15, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed; also tagged as unreferenced section .-M.Altenmann >t 16:45, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article misses a coherent explanation how the amendment was acting after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. -M.Altenmann >t 17:54, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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