Viktor Afanasyev (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Viktor Afanasyev (politician)

Russian philosopher

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1922

Place of Birth: Aktanysh, Russia

Date of Death: 10-Apr-1994

Profession: military personnel, politician, journalist, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev (Russian: ??´???? ?????´?????? ?????´????; 18 November 1922 – 10 April 1994) was a Soviet public figure, remembered for his work as a philosophy academic, politician, and news editor.
Afanasyev was editor-in-chief (1974-1975) of the journal Kommunist and deputy editor (1968–1974) and editor-in-chief (1976–1989) of Pravda. Moderately critical of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and still more so of rising independent politician Boris Yeltsin in his capacity as editor, Afanasyev was dismissed from his high position at Pravda after a period of falling circulation and a negative official reaction to the newspaper's highlighting Boris Yeltsin's troubles with alcohol during the Gorbachev administration in 1989 and spent the remaining half-decade of his life working for the national Academy of Sciences in Moscow.