Sad news

Nikolay Pavlovich Krivomazov, a close friend of mine and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Soviet and the Russian press, passed away. I got acquainted with him long ago, when I went to school, to the secondary school no.1 in Irkutsk, together with his children Misha and Jenya. Nikolay Pavlovich Krivomazov was a journalist of a world scale. I learnt a lot from him, we were close friends for a long time, we lived through hard times together, through the beginning of 1990s, a terrible period in every respect. Nikolay Pavlovich’s decease is a great loss and a hard blow for everyone who knew him. Last year, which seems so close, he wrote an article about me for “Komsomolskaya Pravda”…