* One of the leading ‘New Thinkers’ on foreign policy within Gorbachev’s team, Andrey Grachev, tried in vain to find an editor of a daily newspaper willing to publish a rebuttal of the Andreyeva article. Only Yegor Yakovlev, editor of the weekly Moskovskie novosti, was ready for battle. When Grachev attempted to persuade the editor of Izvestiya, Ivan Laptev, who had a liberal reputation, to publish a reply to the Andreyeva assault on the reform process, Laptev responded: ‘No, we are powerless against Ligachev.’ See Andrey Grachev, Kremlevskaya khronika (Eksmo, Moscow, 1994), p. 126.