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What also distinguishes this issue is the unprecedented involvement of Soviet journalists and writers. We asked Vitali Korotich, editor of Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, to write about the pitfalls of the new Soviet journalism. Mikhail Zhvanetsky, one the country's most popular and outspoken comedians, penned a monologue for Show Business. Yuri Shchekochikhin, who works for Literaturnaya Gazeta, co-wrote a piece examining perestroika in the provinces. The Books section features an excerpt from The Place of the Skull, the latest novel by one of Gorbachev's favorite authors, Chingiz Aitmatov. Andrei Sinyavsky, an emigre writer who spent...
Many popular contenders failed to get past the electoral-district gatherings. Vitali Korotich, editor of the popular weekly magazine Ogonyok, walked out of a seven-hour session in Pravda's House of Culture, charging that the delegates had been stacked and that the meeting was being manipulated by the chairman. Two weeks ago, Andrei Sakharov withdrew his candidacy by publishing a short announcement in a Moscow newspaper saying he would run only as a representative of the Academy of Sciences, which turned him down as a candidate last month...
...members of the U.S. Congress are overpaid at $89,500 a year? Irate that their salaries may go up to $135,000? Then Mikhail Gorbachev may be your idea of the perfect public servant. For the first time, the Soviet leader's pay has been revealed: according to Vitali Korotich, editor of the weekly Ogonyok, Gorbachev receives 1,500 rubles a month, or $30,000 a year...
...other hand, Gorbachev makes about seven times the average Soviet wage. (George Bush, at $200,000, makes ten times the average annual American income.) And don't forget the perks: a limousine, a Moscow apartment, a dacha, hand-delivered groceries. Korotich also disclosed that Gorbachev donated $600,000 in foreign royalties from his book Perestroika, to the Communist Party. Are you listening, Jim Wright...
...gathering called two weeks ago to nominate Vitali Korotich, editor of the pro-glasnost weekly Ogonyok, the candidate's backers fell into a fistfight with members of the ultra-right nationalist group Pamyat. Arriving at the rescheduled meeting last week, supporters of the Ogonyok editor found that militiamen had sealed the hall. Fearing that right-wingers were trying to exclude them from the meeting, Korotich supporters broke down a fence and stormed the building...