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- <text id=92TT0545>
- <title>
- Mar. 16, 1992: World Notes:Russia
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 16, 1992 Jay Leno
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- RUSSIA
- End of the Party Line?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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