Word: literatunaya
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...with the advent of perestroika in recent years, the nature of Vessenski's profession in the Soviet Union is changing. As a high-ranking editor of the influential newspaper Literatunaya Gazeta, Vessenski has been on the cutting edge of the country's drive towards openness...
...government] let Literatunaya Gazeta become a valve to let off steam for the boiling intellectuals," Vessenski says of his newspaper, which is owned by the independent and influential Union of Writers. "The newspaper had the right not only to criticize the case but also the system," he says...
...turning point came, Vessenski says, when the newspaper printed an interview about a decade ago with the Rev. Billy Graham, the ardent anti-Communist religious leader. The editor-in-chief of Literatunaya Gazeta was the friend of a member of the Soviet Central Committee, Vessenski says, and thus was able to secure approval for the piece...
Following Literatunaya Gazeta's lead, other papers began to follow suit by printing articles with stinging attacks on the Soviet structure, Vessenski says, eventually making such previously unprecedented criticism commonplace...
After that initial journalistic venture, Vessenski began working at Literatunaya Gazeta, covering disarmament as well as world churches and their contribution to the peace movement. In 1983, he returned for five years to South America, where he was a correspondent in Argentina...
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