Journalist Career
After graduating from Moscow State University in 1956, Otto Latsis began working in a local newspaper, "Soviet Sakhalin". His subsequent work at the newspaper "Экономическая Газета" (The Economic Gazette), began build Latsis' reputation as a prominent journalist. At the end of the Khrushchev Thaw, he worked at Izvestia, where he advocated for the loosening of censorship and sought to make the newspaper popular among the intelligentsia.
His liberal views proved unpopular with authorities. Latsis was sent into a so-called "exile of honour", that is, to work in a place where he would not have a platform to spread his ideas. He worked in Prague for a magazine called "Problems of Peace and Socialism", later at the Moscow Institute of the Economy of the World Social System.
From 1987 to 1991 he returned to occupy an important position in the Soviet magazine "Communist"—in theory, a magazine intended to be a vehicle for promulgating communist propaganda, but which under Latsis spread the idea of perestroika.
After 1991, he returned to work at Izvestia. In 1997, because of a conflict with its new management, he left it to found his own newspaper, "New Izvestia." He subsequently moved to "Russkii Kurier," and lastly, to "Moskovskiye Novosti."
Latsis also wrote and presented papers at academic symposia.
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