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Article: OBITUARY : Vladislav Listyev

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March 3, 1995
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Vladislav Listyev, assassinated outside his flat in central Moscow on Wednesday, had just been appointed by Boris Yeltsin, the Russian President, executive director of the partially privatised Russian Public Television, due to replace Ostankino television (Channel One) in April. He was also well known throughout the former Soviet Union as a television host from his current affairs talk show and his appearances on the pioneering show Vzglyad ("Glance") of the late 1980s.

Listyev was born in 1956 and studied at Moscow State University, specialising in international journalism (he spoke French, Spanish and Hungarian). In 1982 after performing military service he joined All-Union Radio in ...

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