WHO ARE YOU, MR. POSNER - interview with Nikolay PIVNENKO March 25, 2015 -------------------------------------------------- FULL VERSION HERE: YT: • WHO ARE YOU, MR. POSNER - full version... DZ: Journalist and TV presenter Vladimir Pozner was born on April 1, 1934 in Paris to Vladimir Pozner, a Jewish emigrant from the USSR, and Geraldine Lutten, a Frenchwoman. After the occupation of France by Nazi troops, the family moved to the United States. In 1943, the father of the future TV presenter received Soviet citizenship and began collaborating with Soviet intelligence. The Posners were forced to leave the United States after the onset of the McCarthy era and the excessive attention the FBI was paying to them, but France refused to let Pozner Sr. into the country. As a result, the family moved first to the Soviet occupation zone in Germany, and in 1952 to Moscow. Vladimir Pozner attended school in the United States and East Germany. After moving to Moscow, he entered the biology and soil science department of Moscow State University (at first he was refused admission because of his “questionable” biography, but was eventually accepted thanks to his father’s connections). After graduating, Pozner earned money by translating scientific publications and was the literary secretary of the poet Samuil Marshak. In 1961, he got a job at the Novosti Press Agency, and in 1970, he moved to the Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting, becoming a commentator on the radio broadcasting to the United States and England. Pozner gained fame as a TV presenter at the beginning of perestroika, when teleconferences began to be organized between the Soviet Union and the United States. On these programs, the hosts and guests in studios in the United States and Moscow communicated via satellite and discussed current issues. It was on one of these teleconferences that the now famous phrase was uttered that there is no sex in the USSR. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Pozner continued to work in television. In 2008, his program "Pozner" was aired on Channel One - a weekly long interview with politicians, scientists, athletes, public figures and artists. After the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the program stopped airing, but its closure was not announced. Vladimir Pozner was married three times. He lived with his first wife Valentina Chembreji, the daughter of a famous Soviet composer, from 1957 to 1967. In 1961, the couple had a daughter, Ekaterina. His second wife was journalist Ekaterina Orlova. They did not have children together, but Pozner raised his wife's son from her first marriage, Pyotr. The couple divorced in 2005. The reason for the breakup was Pozner's meeting with promoter and businesswoman Nadezhda Solovey, with whom he still lives. Pozner was diagnosed with cancer twice. At the age of 59, he was diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer, and at the age of 80, with rectal cancer. Both times, he managed to overcome the disease. Now Pozner is an ambassador for the international program "Together Against Cancer". The XXI CENTURY MEDIA project within the framework of ONLINETV.RU MORE PROGRAMS WITH NIKOLAI PIVNENKO: ALEXANDER FILIPPENKO - LIFE AS A TEXT - • ALEXANDER FILIPPENKO - LIFE AS A TEXT... IRINA KHAKAMADA - Results of 2017 - • Irina KHAKAMADA FULL VERSION - Int... EVGENY SATANOVSKY - 2018 (2 hours 53 minutes) - • WHO IS EVGENY SATANOVSKY - premier... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #pivnenko #npivnenko #позьнер #pozner