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...Brokaw -- were in attendance. Also along were Washington heavyweights like ABC's Sam Donaldson and a morning anchor from each network: Today's Bryant Gumbel, Good Morning, America's Charles Gibson and CBS This Morning's Kathleen Sullivan. The networks built temporary studios on a balcony at the Rossiya Hotel. Soviet officials even lighted up the onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square every night for the cameras...
Gorbachev was clearly irritated when, just as he was leaving for a state visit to Yugoslavia last month, the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya carried a sharp attack on glasnost. According to persistent but unconfirmed reports, he concluded that Ligachev was behind the attack and reacted by stripping him of some of his powers over the Soviet press and television. Those powers were reportedly shifted to one of the Soviet leader's strongest backers in the Politburo, Alexander Yakovlev, 64. However, the Soviet leadership showed no sign of strain at the end of last week when Ligachev appeared with Gorbachev and other...
When the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya published a letter six weeks ago defending Stalin's rule and suggesting that glasnost was leading to "ideological mishmash," suspicion immediately fell on Ligachev as the instigator, if not the author. (The letter was ostensibly written by a Leningrad chemistry teacher...
...weeks the provocative letter remained unanswered. Then, on April 5, Pravda blasted back in a full-page editorial that reverberated throughout the | country. The broadside denounced Sovetskaya Rossiya for printing a "manifesto for anti-perestroika forces" and accused reform opponents of "old thinking." Western diplomats and Soviet sources said the editorial bore the style and rhetoric of Politburo Member Yakovlev, who is credited with being the architect of glasnost. Recognizing that it was outgunned, Sovetskaya Rossiya reprinted the Pravda editorial in full the next...
...Under those conditions, the only decision that could be taken was to render the criminals harmless," Sovietskaya Rossiya said...