Mostovoy, USSR media chief Berlin 1989

09/11/09 16:57 CET

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Euronews talks to pre-perestrika USSR media veteran Vyacheslav Mostovoy about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Today he is Vice-President of TV-Centre, one of the Russian Federation channels. In 1989 he was the Soviet TV & Radio bureau chief in the GDR and West-Berlin, and would later be awarded Russia’s Order of Honour for his services.

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