Vladimir Vladimirovich Posner

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Posner
Posner in an interview with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March 2010

Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Posner ( Russian Владимир Владимирович Познер , English transcription Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner ; born April 1, 1934 in Paris ) is a French-born Russian - American journalist and presenter .

His mother was a native of France; his father Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Posner (1908–1975) was the son of a Jewish Russian refugee couple and came to France at the age of 14. In 1940 the family had to leave France before the approaching Nazis and emigrated to the USA. Posner senior ran into problems with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1946 because he was providing information to the Soviet secret service under the code name "Kallistrat". Posner Jr. said his father's secret service activities were evidenced by previously secret documents published in the United States in 1996. The family wanted to return to France, but Posner senior was forbidden as a Soviet agent. For this reason, the family emigrated to East Berlin in 1948 , and in 1952 they moved to the Soviet Union.

In 1958 Vladimir Posner Jr. graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Moscow's Lomonosov University . At first he earned his living as a translator of scientific texts from English into Russian and vice versa. A little later he worked as a secretary and translator for the well-known poet Samuil Marschak . In 1961 he started working for the APN news agency (now known as RIA Novosti ), initially in the KGB's department for disinformation . Until 1985 he hosted a program in English on state radio.

Posner became particularly well known to Soviet television viewers in the late 1980s when he hosted a series of talk shows in which Soviet and American participants discussed together and which therefore became known as Fernsehbrücken (Russian телемост ).

In 1991 Posner moved back to the United States, but returned to Moscow in 1997. In 2019 he also presented programs on the state TV broadcaster Perwy kanal .

In 2010 Posner criticized the Russian Orthodox Church for its aggressive interventions in education and politics.

Since 2014 he and his brother Pawel have owned the French brasserie Chez Géraldine in Moscow, which is named after his mother.

In 2017, he spoke out against the bad habit of calling Russia something special because such statements would transform the country from a European to a country on the African continent. When asked by the BBC what Putin wanted in three words in 2018, Posner said Putin wanted "to survive in his office, respect (from abroad) and a powerful country". After 18 years in power, Putin's honeymoon is over.

Posner has a daughter, the composer Katia Tchemberdji .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vladimir Pozner. "Yes uznal klitschku otza - Kallistrat". (online: Archive link ( Memento from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian))
  2. ↑ Interview with Vladimir Pozner , pbs 1999
  3. ↑ You are not afraid of robots - you are afraid of the living , Novaya Gazeta, April 18, 2019
  4. ↑ Posner Regards Adoption of Orthodoxy as One of Russia's Greatest Tragedies , Interfax, July 20
  5. ↑ Brasserie Chez Géraldine ( Russian ) Archived from the original on March 4, 2010. Retrieved on July 14, 2010.
  6. ↑ Pozner criticized the idea of ​​Russia's exclusivity , fedpress.ru, September 18, 2017
  7. ↑ What Does Putin Want? , BBC The Real Story, March 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Posner, Wladimir Wladimirowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Познер, Владимир Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian journalist and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris