Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (Russian: Егор Владимирович Яковлев; 14 March 1930 – 18 September 2005) was one of the founders of Mikhail Gorbachev and

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

's policy of '' glasnost'', and one of the most respected

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s. He graduated from

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'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

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with the ''

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'' newspaper. He worked in

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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

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, 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

John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

medal. He also authored several books. His son

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is also a journalist; he is a founder and an editor-in-chief of the '' Kommersant Newspaper'', the first Russian daily business-oriented newspaper.

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1930 births 2005 deaths Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) 20th-century Russian journalists {{Russia-journalist-stub