Oldest Russian language paper in America marka centenary jubilee.

NEW YORK , April 19 (Itar-Tass) - America's oldest Russian language
newspaper - New Russian Word - is marking its centenary anniversary on
Monday.
The jubilee celebrations will begin with a reception at the New York
City Council. The City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will present an
honorary diploma to the newspaper's editorial board.
The celebration will continue at the United Nations headquarters where
the World Association of Russian Press will give a reception in honor of
New Russian Word. Representatives of American and Russian political and
business elite, diplomats and public figures are expected to be present at
the reception.
Kyotaka Anasaka, the U.N. deputy secretary general for public
information, Valery Vainberg, the editor-in-chief and publisher of New
Russian Word, Senator Charles Schumer, Denis Molchanov, the director of
department for culture and education at the government of Moscow, Russia's
Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak and members of the House of
Representatives of the U.S. Congress will address the gathering.
The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, has declared April 19 to be
Day of "New Russian Word".
The editorial board of the New York Times, which maintains partnership
relations with New Russian Word, has congratulated the newspaper on its
centenary anniversary. Greetings have also come from members of the New
York City Council, the New York State Assembly, American and Russian
media, public organizations and readers.
In connection with the centenary anniversary, Moscow and New York will
host an exhibition of the New Russian Word's front pages; roundtable
meetings will be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the
leaders of Russian and American media. Other political and cultural events
will be held in the course of 2010.
The New Russian Word is the most readable Russian language edition in
the United States and is the most influential newspaper among Russians
living abroad. The newspaper was founded in 1910. Valery Vainberg, the
editor-in-chief and publisher of New Russian Word, has been with the
newspaper for 45 years.
"I am happy to be part of history. The newspaper has given me an
opportunity to meet many outstanding people of the world and of the
century," Vainberg wrote in the jubilee edition. These people include
George Bush, Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.
The editor-in-chief believes that a wide range of interests has helped
New Russian Word to survive over ten decades. According to Vainberg, the
newspaper has always been staunchly anti-communist.
"We fought for human rights, defended those who were persecuted for
their faith and belief and served the interests of emigration. We've never
incited racial or religious hatred. The newspaper's role is to unite
rather than divide, and this has always been our underlying principle,"
Vainberg wrote.
He described his newspaper as the only surviving textbook on Russian
history, which expressed an independent opinion, not imposed by the
Communists and was independent from the Soviet Union.
The newspaper was founded in 1910. The topics covered by the newspaper
over the past decades included reports about the 1917 Revolution and the
Civil War, the signing of the Russian-German non-aggression pact, Germany'
invasion of Russia and Germany's capitulation and surrender to the allied
troops, the U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yuri Gagarin'
s space flight.
The jubilee edition of New Russian Word has published a selection of
Nobel lectures by Russian writers Ivan Bunin (1933) and Alexander
Solzhenitsyn (1970), poet Joseph Brodsky (1987), scientist Andrei Sakharov
(1975) and the ex-Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev (1990). It is
noteworthy that Bunin, Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky wrote articles for New
Russian Word.
Another selection of articles titled "Defectors" tells about the fates
of Stalin's daughter Svetlana, figure skaters Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg
Protopopov, musician and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife,
opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, and a disgraced general, Pyotr
Grigorenko.
The newspaper keeps pace with the development of new technologies. It
uses new methods of pagination, printing and delivery of newspaper copies
to 44,000 subscribers in the United States. In 1995, the New Russian Word
opened its website which has 50,000 visitors every day. Last September the
newspaper launched its electronic version that can be sent to subscribers
by e-mail, to cell phones and computers.
Last April the newspaper became a weekly publications. The New
Russian Word published a special supplement in Russian jointly with the
New York Times. Nevertheless, its chief editor wants to resume the
newspaper's daily publication.

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