Former president of the former USSR, leader of the United Social Democratic Party of Russia Mikhail Gorbachev (left) and his daughter Irina (second from left) take part in the civil burial service held for the late editor-in-chief of Moskovskie Novosti, journalist and writer Egor Yakovlev in the Central Clinical Hospital, Moscow.
Photo: Ilya Pitalev
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Egor Yakovlev Renders Last Service of Friend
Yesterday it was the day to say final farewell to Egor Yakovlev, the late editor-in-chief of Moskovskie Novosti, prominent journalist and writer of Russia.
There were lots of people in the mourning hall of the Central Clinical Hospital Wednesday - the old guard of business and political elite of Russia was willing to take part in the civil burial service for Egor Yakovlev. As if concluded an armistice, the friends, children, businessmen, journalists, ministers, both current and former, the former president and today's deputies of the parliament were standing near the coffin, coming back to the mid-1980’s, when it was only the beginning. Bringing them together was the last service of a mate offered by Egor.
Some of them took the floor yesterday, some mentioned the last days were not easy for Egor. Many were just lost in recollection. It was journalist Yury Rost, who managed, perhaps, better than others, to verbalize what had actually happened to Egor Yakovlev. Rost recalled how Egor used to spoil relations with people only to revive them later on. His last undertaking was to mar relations with the life and he had no time to restore them, as simple as that.
The bones of Egor Yakovlev will be laid in Novodevichie cemetery.
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