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Show Moscow journalist to speak to Bountiful Chamber of Commerce on to study the language in college. col-lege. He graduated from the School of Journalism at Moscow State University. The Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce feels fortunate to have Nakoryakov to speak to the members, as well as any of the public who would be interested to attend. He will speak about events leading up to the breakup of the USSR and will provide his overview of what may happen in the near future. The luncheon meeting will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 1 2 noon in the Pine Room of the Servus Drug, 55 North Main, Bountiful. Michael Nakoryakov, a Moscow journalist, will be the speaker at the Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce monthly membership meeting. Nakoryakov, a senior editor with the Novosti Press Agency in Moscow, Russia, recently joined the staff of the Salt Lake Tribune as a columnist for a period of one year. He is assigned as-signed to the communities team on the city desk and will cover a variety of issues. In Moscow, Nakoryakov worked with Novosti, a feature syndicate that provided stories to the foreign press for 11 years. During his years with the agency he interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev Gor-bachev before he became general gen-eral secretary, and recently did a story on Wadim Bakatim, the new chairman of the KGB. He has covered stories in Czechoslovakia and Washington, Washing-ton, D.C. I Nakoryakov last visited the United States in 1989, when he spoke on the "New Europe" at the University of Idaho symposium. sym-posium. He began his journalism career 14 years ago with the Olympic Panorama, a glossy Soviet magazine devoted to the Olympic games. He first learned English in high school and went MICHAEL NAKORYAKOV |