Krasnaya Zvezda
Красная звезда | |
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description | Soviet / Russian military newspaper |
First edition | 1924 |
Frequency of publication | daily (Tue – Sat) |
Sold edition | 70,000 copies |
(1998) | |
Web link | redstar.ru |
Article archive | six months retrospectively |
ZDB | 895303-x |
Krasnaja Swesda ( Russian Красная звезда , Red Star ) is an originally Soviet military newspaper. It was founded on January 1, 1924. Today it is the central body of the Russian Ministry of Defense .
In 1939 Major General Yevgeny Boltin (1900–1981) was appointed editor-in-chief, from 1955 Lieutenant General Nikolai Makejew (1911–1988) was editor-in-chief, who was deposed by Gorbachev in 1985 after thirty years in office .
During the German-Soviet War, the following wrote for the newspaper as war reporters : Michail Scholochow , Alexei Tolstoy , Konstantin Simonow , Andrei Platonow , Wassili Grossman and Ilja Ehrenburg .
Web links
- Official website (russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Volume 4. Routledge, London 1998, p. 677.
- ^ Yale Richmond: Practicing public diplomacy: a Cold War odyssey . Berghahn Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-8454-5475-3 , pp. 82-83.