Yegor Yakovlev, 75, the journalist whose weekly newspaper broke one taboo after another in the era of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost, or openness, campaign, died Sunday after a long illness, Ekho Moskvy radio reported.
Yakovlev was editor in chief of the Moscow News, one of the liveliest voices of the late Soviet years and a fierce opponent of censorship. He went on to edit the Obshchaya Gazeta, or Common Newspaper, which championed freedom of speech and liberal values.
