Pravda Presses Will Roll Again

MOSCOW — The former Communist Party newspaper Pravda will resume publication today, less than a month after soaring costs stopped its presses, Pravda’s editor in chief announced Monday.

The newspaper will appear on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and will contain four to six pages, Gennady Seleznov said. He said he is hopeful that a recently acquired bank loan will last Pravda the rest of the year.

Pravda, which means truth, was founded by V. I. Lenin in 1912. As a daily, it was the most authoritative newspaper in the former Soviet Union and had a circulation of 13 million in the 1970s. But the paper steadily lost readers amid the collapse of communism and the Soviet state and was forced to close in March because of the high newsprint costs under Russia’s market reforms.