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- WORLD, Page 43World NotesRUSSIAEnd of the Party Line?
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- Time was when an editorial frown in Pravda could destroy the
- career of a party apparatchik or send a dissident to jail. But
- the demise of the Communist Party following last August's coup
- and the rising cost of newsprint today have put the squeeze on
- the former party newspaper. With its circulation down from 12
- million to 1.3 million, Pravda announced last week that it will
- henceforth appear only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. It
- may go out of business altogether in April.
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- Founded in 1912 by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Pravda was
- closed three times by Czar Nicholas, and again by Alexander
- Kerensky in 1917. The once proud party organ last week lamented,
- with fine irony, the "planned economic strangulation of free,
- independent media."
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