Claim: In the mid-1980's Rafael Grugman conducted interviews with diplomats and military and political figures and then became the first editor of a Jewish newspaper "Ha-Meletz", holding many different job titles during his career.
Evidence: Rafael Abramovich Grugman (Russian: Рафаэль Абрамович Гругман; born 16 October 1948) is a Russian writer, journalist, engineer, programmer and college educator. In the mid-1980s, during the years of social and political reforms in the USSR, known as the Perestroika, he again becomes a journalist, publishing his work in leading newspapers in Odessa, and conducted interviews with diplomats and military and political figures. He was the first editor of a Jewish newspaper "Ha-Meletz" (Russian: "Ха-Мелиц"), published in Odessa after the collapse of the USSR.