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02/23/2024

Super-psyched to have found and purchased this mid-to late 1960s Soviet propaganda newsstand advertisement. As many of you know, I collect newspaper newsstand paperweights, signs, newspaper vendor aprons, etc., and picking up this rare and important (to me!) sign was a real coup. Here is the history of this Soviet propaganda newspaper from Wikipedia:

The Soviet Weekly was a propagandistic newspaper, published from 1942 until 1991, that gave news of the Soviet Union in English. Its stated aim was "to assist in the development of British-Soviet friendship by providing an objective picture of Soviet life and opinion."

Published by Sovinformburo, the Press Department of the Soviet Union, at the Soviet Embassy in Britain, its first edition (as the Soviet War News Weekly) appeared in 1942 (the year after the German invasion led to the USSR becoming an ally of the UK). The final issue was that of 5 December 1991, three weeks before the Soviet Union was dissolved.

Issued on Thursdays and offering "an up-to-the-minute and authentic picture of the USSR", it had a modest cover price (6d, or two and a half pence, in 1967), but most issues were distributed free. In 1946, the weekly print-run was 75,000.

One of its early editors was the screenwriter, novelist and (later) pagan, Stewart Farrar (1916-2000). Mary Rosser-Hicks (1937-2010), the future chief executive of the Peoples Printing Press socialist daily the Morning Star, worked for the paper until 1975, as did South African anti-apartheid activist Shanthie Naidoo during the early 1970s.

Soviet and Russian photographer Yuriy Abramochkin worked in Soviet Weekly for almost 40 years.

In popular culture
The comedian and writer Alexei Sayle has described how this was the newspaper his Communist parents read during his upbringing in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s.

As a child growing up in Glasgow, Graham McTavish, who played Dougal MacKenzie in the TV adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, recounts surprise in learning no other child's family had Soviet Weekly delivered.

01/21/2024

Singer Associates Public Relations San Francisco specializes in complex real estate, litigation and corporate communication issues. Here is a news story that points out the missteps by the proposed California Forever real estate development in Solano County from our perspective.

Nearly every step from the company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has met resistance, and California Forever has responded by picking fights.

12/17/2023

12/16/2023

A very nice piece about the blossoming and renaissance of Emeryville (where we have our Singer Associates Public Relations East Bay office)

Known first for its debauchery and then as a retail hub, Emeryville is undergoing a "renaissance." Here's what to do on your visit.

11/22/2023

Happy Thanksgiving to all from Singer Associates Public Relations San Francisco

02/03/2023

We are honored to announce that Singer Associates Public Relations San Francisco and founder Sam Singer have been named to the San Francisco Business Times List of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential Business Leaders in San Francisco. The paper wrote today: "Sam Singer is the Bay Area’s undisputed crisis PR counselor of choice, an almost automatic go-to for corporations or high-profile individuals who find themselves in awkward, difficult-to-justify or downright indefensible spots. When Chevron faced a $19 billion lawsuit for alleged environmental damage to Ecuador, when a tiger got loose at San Francisco zoo and killed someone, when a startup CEO faced trial for domestic violence, they traveled the same route toward reputational redemption: They called Sam. Dozens of others have likewise been beneficiaries of Singer’s vigorous and tireless advocacy for his clients, calling on his alternate talents for persuasion and pressure. Not for nothing has the proud Bay Area native, former journalist and political consultant been dubbed “The Fixer.” Singer Associates Public Relations San Francisco

Oh yes we did: Presenting the San Francisco Business Times' list of most powerful business people in the Bay Area. Enjoy. Share. Debate.

12/27/2022

Disgraced and disbarred attorney Steve Donziger--found responsible for fraud and bribery in the Chevron Ecuador case--joins Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes in 2022 "Hall of Shame"

Steven Donziger says he has no regrets amid a lengthy legal battle with Chevron that has won him support from Democrats in Congress who have pushed for his release from detention.   To support…

12/21/2022

Singer Associates Public Relations San Francisco is honored to assist Holy Names University during its difficult transition. A great school, a wonderful institution.

Holy Names University to close, but students have the option to continue studies at Dominican University of California

12/13/2022

Sending Season’s Greetings to our families, friends, clients and community for a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and a blessed Kwanzaa from your friends at Singer Associates Public Relations San Francisco

12/13/2022

A very sweet story about Singer Associates Public Relations Firm alum Catherine McDonnell and her husband NBA star Pau Gasol

NBA legend Pau Gasol and his wife Catherine McDonnell recently welcomed their second child and first son to their family.