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Media Titans' Lasting Legacy.(Obituary)
(From The Moscow Times)
In the space of just 10 days this month the Russian media community was shaken by the loss of four of its leading lights. Semyon Levin, the well-known television graphic designer, died on Sept. 11. Yury Zapol, head of Video International, passed away two days later. On Sept. 18, Yegor Yakovlev, best known as the editor of the newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti during the perestroika era, died in a hospital after a long illness, and then show business producer Yury Aizenshpis died on Sept. 21. The many obituaries rightly hailed each of these men as the founding father of an entire sphere of the media industry.
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