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Deputy Civil Aviation Minister Ivan Vasin told the government newspaper Izvestia that the hijacking was the most dramatic he could recall in his long career...
Perhaps the greatest surprise has been the turnaround in the once gray and stilted Izvestia. The official government newspaper is selling 8 million copies a day, up from 6.7 million two years ago, thanks to its transformation under Editor Ivan Laptev into a lively collage of reporting and commentary. "For Soviet readers, Izvestia is the most interesting newspaper around," says Ogonyok's Biryukov. In early August the paper published an interview with a military officer whose duty it is to push the launch button at a nuclear missile center. Never before had a Soviet publication reported in such detail...
Despite the well-publicized efforts of a few pioneering journals, most Soviet reporters are quite cautious. Pravda, possibly because it is the party's official voice, is still timid and dreary. Provincial editors remain largely untouched by glasnost, rarely daring to emulate the investigative journalism of papers such as Izvestia...
...paper's ebullient journalists sometimes seem to get a little ahead of their sources. At a recent press conference, an Izvestia reporter rose to challenge a Deputy Foreign Minister's comment that there had been an increase in emigration for the purpose of bringing together families. Why, asked the reporter, are more of these families "not being reunited on Soviet territory instead of abroad?" Grumbled an abashed minister: "I would have thought we could expect a more convenient question from a representative of Izvestia...
...making season in Moscow, and unhappy housewives find themselves in a jam. There is no shortage of strawberries or currants. What is in scant supply is granulated sugar. As it turns out, authorities are rationing sugar, but not because they have initiated an offensive against tooth decay. According to Izvestia, Soviet officials are convinced that citizens are getting around the recent crackdown on vodka by making moonshine at home, with sugar as a prime ingredient. Caught between low supplies and high demands, the Soviet housewife can hardly be blamed if her mood lately has been less than sweet -- especially...