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...Kremlin official appointed by Gorbachev to tumble from grace, a milestone that at first seemed to point to a setback in the Soviet leader's own political standing. But two days after Yeltsin's downfall, in a display of glasnost unprecedented even in the Gorbachev era, the party paper Pravda ran a detailed account of the sacking. Starting on the front page and occupying the entire 16-column spread of the second and third pages, the story left no doubt that Gorbachev not only acquiesced in the political assassination of his protege but took the lead in arranging...
...introduction to the book, acclaimed Soviet writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko describes first meeting Turbina when she was eight and being very impressed with her poetry. The newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" first published her work...
...representative of democracy, Voice should stand not on one side of an issue but above it, there by allowing listenerers to make up their own minds. By choosing sides, Voice becomes a rhetorical device. Reduced to this level, it is really no different from Pravda...
...policy has also led to squabbles within the official press. Last month, for example, Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard) attacked Ogonyok and Sovietskaya Kultura (Soviet Culture) for their liberal leanings. The two journals shot back with equally harsh words for Molodaya Gvardiya's out-of-date views. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, intervened with a commentary calling the articles "rude" and a warning that scores should not be settled in print...
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...