New Director Named for Tass News Agency
From Reuters
MOSCOW —
Leonid P. Kravchenko, first deputy chairman of the state television and radio committee for the past three years, has been appointed director-general of the official news agency Tass, the agency said Friday.
Kravchenko, 50, was editor in chief of the building industry newspaper Stroitelnaya Gazeta from 1975 to 1980 and later of the trade union daily Trud, Tass said.
He replaces Sergei A. Losev, who died in October.
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