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...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 Communist Party objections, saying it was unacceptable for a story to be published simply because of an "editor's personal decision." Yakovlev, who was in the audience, reportedly stood up and defended the article, an action that would have been unthinkable several years...
Whatever workers and bureaucrats may think, Gorbachev's glasnost has been greeted with an almost giddy euphoria by the intelligentsia. Says Yegor Yakovlev, editor of the innovative Moscow News: "We are hurrying, as if walking on hot coals. We want to show, print and stage all the things that were buried for decades as quickly as possible. We want to do it overnight...
...claim to be. Gorbachev has called for reducing conventional arms to a level of "reasonable sufficiency." Said he: "In the European building, every apartment is entitled to protect itself against burglars, but only in such a way as not to demolish the next-door apartment." His top propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev, is even more forceful about cutting conventional forces. "We are prepared for the most radical steps along these lines," he told New Perspectives Quarterly, a California-based political journal. Encouraging words -- but in more than 13 years of negotiations with the West over mutual troop reductions, the Soviets have...
That exile came to an abrupt end when Yakovlev organized a 1983 Canadian visit for Gorbachev, who was then party secretary in charge of agriculture. Shortly afterward, Yakovlev returned to the Soviet capital as head of a think tank and later as chief of the propaganda department. A collateral duty was advising Gorbachev on the handling of the press and the arts. In that capacity, Yakovlev whipped up support for glasnost and deserves much of the credit for Gorbachev's current high standing among Soviet intellectuals...
...Yakovlev is also regarded as the behind-the-scenes choreographer of the successful Mikhail and Raisa road show. He accompanied the Gorbachevs on their first official foreign trip -- to London in 1984 -- and then to Geneva and Reykjavik. The payoff has been measurable. "Look what has been happening in West European attitudes toward the Soviet Union," said a diplomatic specialist on Soviet propaganda. "The opinion polls tell you why Yakovlev was promoted...