Aganyok - Aganyok

...It was published 365 days a year in 44 cities, including Moscow, and had a circulation of about 10.2 million copies (1983), making it one of the world's largest newspapers and one of the most important newspapers, along with the government-run newspaper Izvestia. Its publisher, the Pravda Publishing House, was the oldest publishing house belonging to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and in addition to Pravda, it published newspapers such as Komsomolskaya Pravda and Rural Life, theoretical magazines such as Problems of Philosophy and Problems of History, and general magazines such as Krokodil and Ogonyok, making it a powerful presence among Soviet publishing houses. However, in the late 1980s, during the perestroika process, Pravda's circulation decreased, and after the failure of the conservative coup in August 1991, it was suspended. At the end of the same month, it broke with the Communist Party and resumed publication as a centrist newspaper, but was suspended in March 1992 due to financial difficulties. ...

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…年中無休でモスクワなど44都市で発行され，発行部数は約1020万部(1983)と，世界最大の新聞の一つとなり，政府機関紙の《イズベスチヤ》と並んで最重要な新聞とされた。発行所の〈プラウダ出版所〉は，ソ連共産党に属する最も古い出版所であり，《プラウダ》のほか，《コムソモールスカヤ・プラウダ》《農村生活》などの新聞，《哲学の諸問題》《歴史学の諸問題》などの理論雑誌，一般誌の《クロコディル》《アガニョクOgonyok》などを刊行し，ソ連の出版所のなかでも有力な存在となっていた。　しかし1980年代後半，ペレストロイカの過程で《プラウダ》は部数も減少し，91年8月の保守派クーデタ失敗後に発行停止処分を受け，同月末に共産党と訣別して中道新聞として再刊したが，92年3月経営難のため休刊。…

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