Yegor Yakovlev
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Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (March 14, 1930 - September 18, 2005) was one of the founders of Gorbachev and Yeltsin-style glasnost, and one of the most respected Russian journalists.
He graduated from Moscow's History and Archives Institute in 1954. In 1966, he became an editor-in-chief of the Sovietskaya Pechat journal which was later renamed 'Journalist'. In 1968, he continued his career in journalism as a special correspondent with the Izvestia newspaper. He worked in Prague for three years during that period, and returned there as a resident correspondent in 1985-1986. In August 1986, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Moscow News, which he turned from an English-language voice of Soviet propaganda into one of the most popular and widely read papers of the so-called time of perestroika and glasnost. In 1991-1992, he was the chairman of All-Soviet Television Company (VGTRK). In 1993, he became a publisher of Obschaya Gazeta which he sold in 2002. Yakovlev won several international awards, including John Paul II medal. He also authored several books.
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