Yegor Yakovlev

For the Russian ice hockey player, see Egor Yakovlev.

Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (Russian: Егор Владимирович Яковлев; 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.^[1]

Yegor Yakovlev
Yegor Yakovlev during an interview on Echo Moskvy radio
Born	(1930-03-14)March 14, 1930
Died	September 18, 2005(2005-09-18) (aged 75)
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Journalist

Yegor Yakovlev graduated from Moscow'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 correspondent with the Izvestia newspaper.

In 1981 he narrated the documentary "Rabotat khorosho vsegda trudno" which covered the Volzhsky Automobile Plant in Russia.^[2] Yakovlev 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 [ru] (VGTRK). In 1993, he became a publisher of Obschaya Gazeta which he sold in 2002. Yakovlev won several international awards, including the John Paul II medal. He also authored several books. His son Vladimir is also a journalist; he is a founder and an editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Newspaper, the first Russian daily business-oriented newspaper.^[3]