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...staff cut. Illarionov implies he had been under pressure to keep quiet. "I chose to resign instead," he tells TIME. His exit came as Moscow sparred with Ukraine over natural-gas prices. Illarionov told TIME last Saturday that he simply could not, as asked, take the role of a "propagandist" explaining Russia's position as a reflection of its claimed liberal economic policies. To Putin, what matters is that Russia's economy is growing at a robust 6%. But without Illarionov at Putin's side, Russia's commitment to free markets will look less encouraging to the West...
...last 48 hours things between Russia and Ukraine have been developing under the worst possible scenario on the gas issue-and not just the gas issue. This (gas) war was the last drop in my decision to resign. I was offered to take part in it as a propagandist who would explain why the price hike and everything else that is being done in our bilateral relations are liberal economic policies. However, the factors that led to this decision have nothing in common with liberal economic policies...
DIED. ALEKSANDR YAKOVLEV, 81, Communist-turned-democratic-reformer known as the "Godfather of Glasnost" for his role in formulating and promoting Mikhail Gorbachev's program of political liberalization in the Soviet Union in the 1980s; in Moscow. After rising through the ranks of the Communist Party as a propagandist and censor, Yakovlev embraced perestroika, or restructuring, and supported political competition, encouraged artists and freedom of the press, and repeatedly publicized abuses perpetrated during the Soviet...
...copiers. The Soviets even decorated the corridor walls with framed photographs of Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneva under the neatly stenciled label AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS. Soviet officials offered daily briefings for news-starved correspondents. "I welcome you with all my heart to this press center," said the grayhaired Soviet propagandist Albert Vlasov with perhaps a trifle too much earnestness...
...Four, the influential ring of radical Maoists, including Mao's wife Jiang Qing, behind the excesses of Mao's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution; on April 21, in an undisclosed location. When a politically threatened Mao started the revolution to cleanse the nation of "bourgeois remnants," Zhang, his trusted propagandist and deputy, led the effort. The ensuing terror, including the assault and jailing of legions of perceived enemies, ended in October 1976, a month after Mao's death, when Zhang and his comrades were arrested. He was later tried and sentenced to life imprisonment...