Yegor Yakovlev | |
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 Yegor Yakovlev during an interview on Echo Moskvy radio | |
| Born | March 14, 1930 |
| Died | September 18, 2005 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (Russian: Егор Владимирович Яковлев; 14 March 1930 – 18 September 2005) was one of the founders of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin's policy of glasnost, and one of the most respected Russian journalists.[1]
Yegor Yakovlev 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.
In 1981 he narrated the documentary "Rabotat khorosho vsegda trudno" which covered the Volzhsky Automobile Plant in Russia.[2] Yakovlev 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 era 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 the John Paul II medal. He also authored several books. His son Vladimir is also a journalist; he is a founder and an editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Newspaper, the first Russian daily business-oriented newspaper.[3]
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- ^ Ostrovsky, Arkady (2017-07-04). The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-399-56417-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "Rabotat khorosho vsegda trudno". IMDB. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ^ "Владимир Егорович Яковлев. Биографическая справка". RIA Novosti (in Russian). 28 October 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
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