Vitaly Korotich is former editor of Ogonyok, or Little Flame, magazine, which helped revolutionize Russian journalism in the 1980s by printing articles about the grim realities of everyday existence under communism.
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Later he became a photographer for Ogonyok, a Soviet newsmagazine.
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But in the late 1980s, the magazine Ogonyok, in the heyday of Gorbachevian glasnost, ran an article suggesting that there were more than 800, 000 of them in the Soviet Union.