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...point the proceedings were interrupted by a spicy dispute involving the weekly magazine Ogonyok, which has emerged as one of the staunchest supporters of glasnost -- and one of the most daring probers of its limits. Shortly before the conference convened, the newspaper had alleged that several unnamed delegates from the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan were guilty of accepting bribes. When the conference's credentials chairman said it would take time to subject the charges to official investigation, there were shouts for Ogonyok Editor Vitali Korotich to substantiate them himself. Korotich gamely came to the podium and explained that...
...which enraged rank-and-file members harangued party bosses because a final delegate list did not include those who had received the most votes in the secret ballot. "Party leaders who came to the meeting . . . went through some unpleasant moments," Pravda reported. In another case, the weekly magazine Ogonyok delighted its readers with a scathing satire on the back-room politics surrounding the selection of the archconservative Anatoli Ivanov, editor of the youth journal Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard). Seasoned Communist politicians have found themselves forced to campaign for delegate seats, most for the first time in their careers...
Notwithstanding his reformist image, Gorbachev in the end may find he prefers the Kluyevs of conventional party practice over more fiery pro- perestroika candidates. At a meeting attended by Gorbachev to choose Moscow's delegation two weeks ago, Ivanov was confirmed as a delegate despite the Ogonyok attack, while the passionate playwright Gelman was not. There and elsewhere Gorbachev has shown a well-tuned instinct for the safe middle ground. When he dumped Yeltsin, the pro-perestroika Moscow party boss, from the Politburo earlier this year, Gorbachev was protecting one flank. When he later chastised Yegor Ligachev, a Politburo member...
Gorbachev's idea of glasnost stops well short of Western-style artistic and journalistic freedom. Nonetheless, the policy has gone further than anyone would have predicted even a few years ago, winning Gorbachev the enthusiastic approval of intellectuals. Says Vitali Korotich, editor of Ogonyok, an illustrated weekly that has published hard-hitting articles about social problems as well as anthologies of long-suppressed poetry: "This is an evening of dancing in a society that has never danced...
...there was little surprise last week when reports surfaced in the West that Ligachev had publicly attacked glasnost yet again. According to the New York Times, Ligachev, 66, made a stinging speech at a recent gathering of Soviet journalists. He condemned the weekly magazine Ogonyok, which has been critical of the Soviet status quo. He denounced the weekly paper Moscow News for publishing an obituary of Viktor Nekrasov, a Soviet writer who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1972 and later emigrated to the West. Ligachev publicly rebuked the paper's editor, Yegor Yakovlev, for printing the tribute over...