Sputnik (magazine)

{{Short description|Soviet magazine (1967–1991)}}

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Sputnik ({{langx|ru|Спутник}}) was a Soviet magazine published from 1967 until 1991 by the Soviet press agency Novosti in several languages, targeted at both Eastern Bloc countries and Western nations. It was intended to be a Soviet equivalent to Reader's Digest, publishing news stories excerpted from the Soviet press in a similar size and paper.

Although already censored by the Soviet government, Sputnik was at times censored by the governments of countries at odds with the Kremlin as the magazine's editors were replaced with pro-Reform editors during glasnost, the most noted examples being East Germany in November 1988{{cite journal

|author=Laura Bradley|title=Challenging Censorship through Creativity: Responses to the Ban on Sputnik in the GDR|jstor=10.5699/modelangrevi.108.2.0519|journal=The Modern Language Review|date=April 2013|volume=108|issue=2|pages=519–538 |doi=10.5699/modelangrevi.108.2.0519 |s2cid=161074050 |url=https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/challenging-censorship-through-creativity(37807b1e-1813-436a-940c-fcf68bef4f15).html |hdl=20.500.11820/37807b1e-1813-436a-940c-fcf68bef4f15|hdl-access=free}} and Cuba in 1989.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-week-the-iron-curtain-began-to-be-torn-apart-1808996.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=25 October 2009|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-week-the-iron-curtain-began-to-be-torn-apart-1808996.html|archive-date=24 May 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=The week the Iron Curtain began to be torn apart|location=London|issn=0951-9467|oclc=185201487

|quote=In addition, the authorities yesterday lifted a ban on Sputnik, a Soviet magazine banned in the country last year because of its radical tone.|access-date=12 July 2012}}