For the past year, Ogonyok has been under the editorial guidance of Viktor Loshak, longtime editor of Moskovskiye Novosti and the 2002 winner of the best editor award from the Union of Journalists.
Loshak was a natural to head Ogonyok: He was esteemed and well-connected, and brought with him a talented team of writers and editors.
In one year alone, Ogonyok's readership grew nationally from 236,900 to 362,000, and almost tripled in Moscow, according to a recent tally by TNS Gallup Media.
Nowadays, the market in sensations is so competitive that Ogonyok's reporting is less distinctive, but in the first years of glasnost, the magazine was often the target of abuse from hard-liners and resistance from the party, which was officially the publisher.
In July 1990, staff members announced plans to establish Ogonyok as legally independent, although it continued to be printed by the party publishing house on a contract basis.
Ogonyok's letters column continued to be one of the country's best&emdash;a weekly cri de coeur from the cogs in the Soviet machine.
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