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He graduated from Moscow"s History and Archives Institute in 1954.
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Jegor Yakovlev
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Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (Яковлев, Егор Владимирович. 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. 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 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.
He also authored several books
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