Word: ogonyok
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...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...
...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...
...rise to a crescendo of grumbling that has become grist for news reports calling attention to the shortage of consumer goods. Public debate has also offered hints of divisiveness at the top. Last week Pravda published a letter, penned by six influential conservative writers, that attacked the weekly magazine Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, for abusing the new openness by distorting history. The letter could not have appeared in the Communist Party daily without support from some top-ranking party members...
...story "would not be lost to history." Last July, after Mikhail Gorbachev praised Khrushchev and the Soviet press began to rehabilitate the former leader's reputation, the editors of TIME encouraged Sergei to write about his father. In October the first of four installments appeared in the Soviet weekly Ogonyok...
...when numbed citizens queued for news of arrested relatives. Once a crude weapon of repression, it now functions as a sophisticated instrument of state control, both at home and abroad. But despite the change of image, the KGB still inspires fear and loathing. As a letter in the magazine Ogonyok put it last August, "The time has come to lift the curtain of secrecy from the KGB's activities -- otherwise how can it be controlled by a society that knows nothing about...