Vladimir Posner

Vladimir Vladimirovich Posner (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Познер; born April 1, 1934 in Paris ) is a Russian journalist and presenter, who is best known for his advocacy of the views of the Soviet Union during the Cold War in the West.

His mother was a native of France; his father, Vladimir Alexandrovich Posner (1908-1975) was the son of a Jewish refugee couple from Russia and came to France at age 14. 1940, the family had before the advancing Nazis left France and emigrated to the United States. 1946 got Posner senior serious problems with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as it provided the Soviet secret under the code name " Kallistrat " information. Posner junior According to the intelligence activities of his father were detected by previously undisclosed documents that were published in 1996 in the U.S.. Posner intend to return to France, but it was banned as a senior Posner Soviet agents. For this reason, emigrated in 1948 Posner to East Berlin in 1952 they moved to the Soviet Union.

1958, Vladimir Posner junior from the biological faculty of the Moscow State University. 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 famous poet Samuil Marshak. In 1961 he began working for the news agency APN (now known as RIA Novosti ) on. Until 1985, he hosted the national radio a broadcast in English.

The Soviet television viewers particularly known Posner was in the late 1980s when he hosted a series of talk shows in which Soviet and U.S. participants have jointly discussed and therefore as a television bridges (Russian телемост ) were known.

1991 Posner drew back to the U.S., but returned in 1997 to Moscow. Today, he hosts two shows in the state-owned TV channel Perwy.

Posner has a daughter, the composer Katia Tchemberdji.