Word: izvestia
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Nixon's speech was a ringing retort to Soviet internal propaganda that the exhibition was not typical of U.S. life. Expecting that his speech' would reach millions of Russians (it was printed in both Pravda and Izvestia), Nixon had thrown away the State Department's proposed drafts and written his own text to take advantage of the richest propaganda opportunity the Soviet government had ever handed a U.S. official...
...South Pacific Post" jungle newspaper, and particularly in reference to its smokable qualities, I would like to point out that two other very prominent newspapers have been even more widely smoked. During the war years in Europe, the conquering Russian soldiers rolled their "makhorka" in Pravda or Izvestia...
...Tweedledum and Tweedledee of Soviet journalism-Izvestia (Information), the official daily of the government, and Pravda (Truth), the official daily of the Communist Party-are so packed with pap and propaganda that a few editors have discreetly hinted recently that the two dailies are incredible bores (TIME, June 1). Last week brought a sign that the government had at last decided to print some news that is fit to be read. Named as the new managing editor of Izvestia: round-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, garrulous and gregarious as his father-in-law, who happens to be Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev...
...Adzhubei refused to answer tough questions from American newsmen about Russia, but generally radiated good will, quipped as he made a small wager at a Reno gambling table: "I probably shouldn't do this-I might make a million." (He didn't.) As editorial boss of Izvestia (circ. 1,800,000). Adzhubei may some day give the monolithic Pravda (5,560,000) a run for its kopecks...
...most Russians go to their mailbox or wait patiently in the midmorning kiosk queue for a copy of Pravda or Izvestia. Readers write the papers thousands of letters every week, usually complaining against some service or some minor bureaucrat. They have a private joke which has become a national truism: "In Pravda there is no information, in Izvestia there is no truth." At day's end, by long tradition, the reader hands his paper over to the neighbor on bathroom duty in the cooperative apartment house. Then, by almost unanimous agreement, Pravda and Izvestia come into their own: torn...