A quarter century ago, as the Soviet Union lurched toward dissolution, one of the people chronicling its fall was Russian journalist Artyom Borovik. His television show Vzglyad — which mocked Mikhail Gorbachev’s government — was watched by as many as 100 million people a week.
Fluent in English — the result of a childhood spent in New York with his Soviet diplomat father — Artyom also had a large following in the West. He was energetic, engaging, crusading in his beliefs — and despairing about his country’s future even as he applauded ongoing changes. “Russians,” he once said, “talk about how …read more
Source: iPolitics
