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''Moscow News'' is , who proposed in March 2006 to buy back 100% of '' France Soir '' shares 1 .


HISTORY

It was originally founded by American Socialist Anne-Louisa Strong and approved by Joseph Stalin 1930 as an international newspaper with the purpose of Propagandizing its foreign audience. The original paper was published in many languages, including French , Spanish and Arabic .

The paper was shut down in 1949 after its editor-in-chief, Mikhail Borodin , was arrested and died in the Gulag . It continued publication in January 4 , 1956 , but under hard control of the Communist Party .

At the onset of Perestroika , the freeing of the press gave it the opportunity to openly address the democratic processes. Under Mikhail Gorbachev , ''Moscow News'' became one of the first papers to experiment with Glasnost . In this incarnation its readership grew dramatically to one million copies per week.

Under Putin , and suffering from declining sales, ''Moscow News'' was bought by Mikhail Khodorkovsky , one of Russia's Oligarchs and owner of Yukos . Khodorovsky hired Yevgeny Kiselyov, an outspoken Liberal journalist.

''Moscow News'' has had numerous other owners, and as such has never considered itself an instrument of any particular governmental group. Ogonyok , International Book , and the All-Union Society Of Cultural Ties With Foreign Countries among others have controlled the newspaper at one time or another.


REFERENCES

  • Baker, Peter and Susan Glasser. ''Kremlin Rising.'' Scribner: New York, 2005. p287.




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