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Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner
Владимир Познер
Birth at
1 April 1934
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner was born on April 1, 1934 in Paris in the family of a Frenchwoman Geraldine Lutin and a Jewish emigrant from Russia Vladimir Pozner. Vladimir’s childhood and youth passed between two countries – France and the United States. Due to the deterioration of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union after the war, the Posner family wanted to settle in France, but then the head of the family was denied entry. The way out of the situation was to move to Berlin,
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner was born on April 1, 1934 in Paris in the family of a Frenchwoman Geraldine Lutin and a Jewish emigrant from Russia Vladimir Pozner. Vladimir’s childhood and youth passed between two countries – France and the United States. Due to the deterioration of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union after the war, the Posner family wanted to settle in France, but then the head of the family was denied entry. The way out of the situation was to move to Berlin, where Posner Sr. received a position in the company Sovexportfilm. And in 1952 the family moved to Moscow.
In 1958, Vladimir Pozner graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in human physiology and took up scientific English-Russian translations. A year later he worked as literary secretary for the poet Samuel Marshak. Since 1961 he worked as a senior editor of the press agency “Novosti”, in 1970 he served as a commentator on the State Teleradio of the USSR.
Vladimir became known to the Soviet population thanks to teleconferences with the United States, which he led with Phil Donahue since 1985. Thanks to the success of teleconferences, Posner becomes a political observer and begins his career on Central Television. But already in 1991, Vladimir received an invitation to work in the United States with Donahue and left the CT, despite his popularity in the country.
From 1994 to 2008 he headed the Academy of Russian Television.
In the spring of 2008, Vladimir Pozner together with
One-story America" On Channel One. After that, the book “One-Story America” was published. Pozner-Urgant also made serial travel films.
Tour de France and "Their Italy."
Vladimir is married three times, seriously interested in baseball and tennis. Together with his brother, he opened a French restaurant in Moscow named after his mother.
He is the winner of numerous awards, including two TEFFI in 1998 and 2001.