On 17 September 1982 Ratushinskaya was arrested and accused of anti-Soviet agitation for writing and circulating her collections of verse . Between 1 and 3 March 1983 , she was tried in Kiev and convicted of " agitation carried on for the purpose of subverting or weakening the Soviet regime " ( Article 62 ) . Ratushinskaya received the maximum sentence of seven years in a strict-regime labor camp , followed by five years of internal exile . After being imprisoned three and a half years , including one year in solitary confinement in an unheated cell while temperatures fell to minus 40C in the winter , she was released on 9 October 1986 , on the eve of the summit in Reykjavík , Iceland between President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
summit in Reykjavík
Reykjavík Summit
Irina Ratushinskaya