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...DIED, ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV, 81, ally in President Mikhail Gorbachev's democratic reform and restructuring of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s; in Moscow. Badly wounded fighting with the Red Army in 1943, Yakovlev joined the Communist Party and rose quickly, serving as acting head of propaganda from 1965 until his increasingly liberal views saw him sidelined as Soviet ambassador to Canada in 1972. Gorbachev met Yakovlev there in 1983 and recalled him as a trusted collaborator, later promoting him to the Politburo. Together the pair set about the reform process described by Yakovlev as "trying to dismantle...
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...
...American intermediate-range missiles only succeeded in fostering greater NATO coherence and determination. The new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has shown a lighter touch. He has skillfully postured as peacemaker and portrayed the Americans as warmongers. His appointments also reflect a preoccupation with p.r.: new Propaganda Chief Alexander Yakovlev became thoroughly familiar with Western ways during ten years as Ambassador to Canada, and new Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze is an ebullient backslapper...
...capital flight quadrupled last year, to $9.4 billion. But for now, Western companies seem eager to keep on buying, and it's not hard to see why. Many are lured by the stellar performance of such companies as Eldorado, founded a decade ago by two brothers, Igor and Oleg Yakovlev. The company says its sales jumped 83% last year alone, to $2.5 billion. With numbers like that, Russia may well be a risk worth taking. --With reporting by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...Western companies seem eager to keep on buying, and it's not hard to see why. Eldorado, which was founded a decade ago by two brothers, Igor and Oleg Yakovlev, has been growing at a phenomenal rate. The company says its sales jumped by 83% last year alone, to $2.5 billion. With numbers like that unreachable in any other emerging market outside of China, Russia may well be a risk worth taking...