送交者: 田牛 于 2005-1-31, 12:16:24:
Pravda backed the Communist hard-liners who plotted the failed August 1991 coup, a stand that cost it the support of both the public and the government of Russian president Boris Yeltsin. Pravda was no longer required reading for anyone. The collapse of the USSR later in 1991 meant an end to the subsidies to which Soviet media had grown accustomed. The Communist Party was banned and its properties, including those controlled by Pravda, were confiscated. Pravda was purchased in 1992 by two Greek businessmen who thereafter invested millions of dollars in the paper. Nevertheless, Pravda’s circulation plummeted to 200,000 and publication was suspended several times before the owners shut it down on July 30, 1996. The Greek owners began sending subscribers a more modern weekly tabloid, called Pravda Pyat (Pravda Five). Some staff members of the old Pravda began to publish another newspaper, unofficially funded by the new Communist Party, with the name Pravda. Another group of staff members published a rival newspaper, also called Pravda. In November 1998 a Moscow court ordered the second Pravda to change its name, and it took the name Slovo (The Word).