Vladimir Pozner, the servant is by definition irresponsible, the responsibility of the owner

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Владимир Познер: раб по определению безответственен, за него отвечает хозяин

In the Russian press, on TV, there is probably no more award-winning journalist than Vladimir Pozner. In his 82 years (and another date to celebrate April fool’s day – April 1) he regularly goes on the air, asks his guests on the First channel tricky sometimes tactless questions. But do it with such ease and professionalism, not to answer them, few are solved. In its programs from 2008 to 2016 shared our innermost secrets policy (from Mikhail Gorbachev to Hillary Clinton), athletes and singers, billionaires and astronauts, designers, clergy, homosexuals and proponents of traditional values, favorites of the Russian women of glamour and beauty. Posner all know how to speak, to find for each your “key”. This man is capable of a leisurely conversation to keep the audience no less tenaciously than a Hollywood blockbuster. According to him, the collection lacks only the incumbent President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

Magic personality: he never was nor for power, nor against, he expresses the conventional position, do not earn points on the promoted subjects. He can barely make a recognizable person popular, having opened himself to him hitherto unknown horizons, to help to formulate, execute fragile idea. However, he, as the perfect interviewer never allows himself to outshine his counterpart, helps it to become a brighter, more powerful, more effective.

Origins

In the family of Vladimir Vladimirovich Posner is simply impossible to become an ordinary person.

His grandmother in the early twentieth century owned the famous all Saint Petersburg photography Anichkina bridge.

His father Vladimir Alexandrovich with his youth joined a new perspective to the art – cinema. When the audio tape took its first tentative steps on screen, he has already established himself as a talented sound engineer. Immediately after the Second world war, he even headed the film Studio MGM International, was part of the American kinoelity. After the incident in the US hunting Communists, he returned to the USSR and soon headed the creation of the film industry of the GDR. Thanks to his acquaintances and feverish activity of the Moscow film festival has become popular with Western bigwigs of the film business. Together with George and Said Konstantin Simonov, he created a “creative Experimental Studio”, which brought into the Treasury of the Russian movie “White sun of the desert”.

Among close relatives: uncle Vladimir – Russian and French writer, his father Solomon Vladimirovich – journalist and social activist, finally, brother Pavel Vladimirovich – orientalist, doctor of Sciences historically, the restaurateur.

First steps and first test

In good faith after studying for biology and soil faculty of Moscow state University, Vladimir Pozner found a job not related to their education. Top-quality translations from English into Russian, gave a good income. His works were praised by the great Russian poet and translator Samuil Marshak, who took him in literary secretaries.

One of the many familiar invited him, as a person, fluent in English and French, only what created in the Agency “Novosti”. So journalism and Vladimir Pozner have found each other. A career diplomat, who is allowed to communicate with foreigners, including those from capitalist countries, not out of choice – at 33 Posner joined the Communist party and was able to understand from the inside how a vicious and false system of values and practices of life of builders of communism. This opened him the way to the State Committee of radio broadcasting, where for many years Posner went on air in the UK and the USA.

From teleconference with Phil Donahue to “Posner” deep in the night

Personal acquaintance with the star of American television has allowed Vladimir Pozner to become a permanent leading TV bridges between studios that are located in Leningrad and Seattle. It was the first direct communication of ordinary people living on different continents. The most famous story from this period, as during the discussion of TV advertising (in the USSR it did not exist then!) a resident of the city on the Neva stated: “Well, the sex… the sex we have, and we categorically against it!”.

Career at Central television (“Sunday night with Vladimir Pozner”, “America with Vladimir Pozner”, “squaring the circle”) ended as suddenly as it had begun. Posner is leaving due to disputes with management. They say that the real reason for this are the regular denunciations of envious journalist to No. 1 on its “anti-Sovietism”.

More than half of the 90 Posner spent in the air, constantly being wound between the two continents: In the United States with Donahue, he hosted a weekly program “Pozner & Donahue”, in Moscow – “We”, “we”, “If”, “the masked Man”.

Finally back in the country in 1997, Pozner more than 10 years he was on the First channel “the Times”, which was replaced by the existing to this day the author’s program “Pozner”. His attempt to make more acute the program “Parfyonov and Pozner” on “the Rain” faced with the ultimatum of the guide: or official media, or the opposition. He took it for granted (prohibition of cooperation with competitors is a condition of contracts with journalists on many TV channels), but in the air, announced the ban to call in its programme of Alexei Navalny and several other individuals who can bring doubt in the mind of untroubled consumers Kremlin-controlled media.

Recent work of Posner on television: “Italy”, “German puzzle”, “England in General and in particular” with Ivan Urgant. The new year they told about the land of their forefathers Israel – “the Jewish happiness”.

“Rossi keeps me just work”

Vladimir Pozner is a citizen of 3 countries: Russia, France and the USA. Already only one it causes irritation to the average Russian citizen. Frank Posner’s statement that he is a staunch atheist (he believed that the adoption of Orthodoxy is the greatest tragedy of Russia), a supporter of euthanasia, the legalization of same-sex marriage, prostitution, and drug sales, popularity, he adds. Rather, he is popular, his face is familiar to everyone, but it is a symbol of what is now supposed to hate, despise, be considered a betrayal.

Posner adds fuel to the fire regularly taking talk about the difference between “freedom” and “will”. The last of which in Russia historically confused with the first one, from what actually happens and the rejection of democracy, liberalism, freedom of speech, of the Western way of life.

In Moscow on Malaya Dmitrovka been working School of television skill of Vladimir Pozner, where he shares with young journalists for its rich experience in the Russian and American media, teaches us about responsibility to the prepared material, ethics, submitting interesting current and retrospective material. To learn from the master – so to get a good start in international journalism.

Vladimir Pozner is the author of numerous books, including historical, autobiographical, which is a continuation of his television projects.

Awards, other evidence of public and professional recognition of Vladimir Pozner to list makes no sense: too many of them and such a colorful personality they are not.

Together with his brother Paul Vladimir Pozner has opened in Moscow on Ostrozhenka a French restaurant “Geraldine” (the name of their mothers).

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