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...Vitali Ignatenko vividly remembers the day four years ago when the lives of Soviet journalists changed dramatically. Soon after taking office, Mikhail Gorbachev displayed his new style by delivering a speech live on Soviet television. "We realized that we had reached a new period," Ignatenko recalls. "It was the first step into the era of glasnost...
...editor in chief of the Soviet foreign affairs weekly New Times, Ignatenko, 48, has since taken many steps into that new era. Three months ago, for example, the magazine (circ. 600,000) published the first Soviet press interview ever with Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa...
Last fall World editor Jim Kelly spent two weeks in the Soviet Union as a guest of New Times. We recently reciprocated by inviting Ignatenko to visit TIME's U.S. operation. As it turned out, we asked him nearly as many questions about his job as he asked about how an American newsmagazine is put together. We learned, for example, that Ignatenko has a telephone in his office that connects him directly to top officials -- and vice versa. "Gorbachev personally hasn't phoned me," Ignatenko says, "but he knows all the editors on a first-name basis and meets with...
Pravda's vitriol was aimed at Kombinat, the organization that oversees cleanup and safety maintenance at Chernobyl. Workers were scolded for drunkenness, thievery and inadequate discipline, while Kombinat officials were criticized for nepotism and negligence. The newspaper said that Kombinat Director Yevgeni Ignatenko had been reprimanded and had left his post...