Vladimir Posner - Shows

Shows

For many years during the Cold War, Vladimir Posner delivered the nightly "Radio Moscow News and Commentary" program on the North America Service with his signature greeting, "Thank you and good evening".

Pozner was the host of several shows on Russian TV, among them the US-Soviet space bridges, "Mi" (translated "Us"), "Vremya i Mi" ("The Time and Us"), "Voskresnyi Vecher s Vladimirom Poznerom" ("Sunday Night with Vladimir Pozner"), "Chelovek v maske" ("A Man in the Mask"), "Vremena" ("Times"). Most of these followed a talk show format, with varying numbers of guests and varying degree and manner of audience participation.

Since 2004 Pozner has been contributing his time as the host of "Vremya Zhyt' !" ("A time to live!"), a series of talk shows about the problem of HIV/AIDS. The programs are produced and broadcast by regional television stations and focus on addressing the local challenges that exist in different parts of Russia.

In the documentary film "Lugovoy, pervy podozrevaemy" about Andrey Lugovoy, suspected to be the killer of Alexandre Litvinenko, Pozner makes important statements, such as: KGB-agents were took for heroes in the Soviet Union, like James Bond in England (http://video.yandex.ru/users/doskado6/view/185/#).

In 2008 Pozner, with Ivan Urgant and Brian Kahn, released "Odnoetazhnaya Amerika" ("One-Storied America"), a 16 episode travel documentary based on the 1937 book "Little Golden America" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgenyi Petrov.

Pozner and Urgent also collaborated on a subsequent project, "Tour de France", set to air in the fall of 2010.

Today (2010) he hosts an eponymous interview show "Pozner" on Russia's Channel One Pozner asked his guests questions on behalf of Mr. Sineboka - to the "Arab spring." Questions from Sineboka - perhaps questions of Posner's (self-censorship).

He has a lively and unconstrained style of hosting, often firing poignant off-the-cuff remarks at his guests. He frequently comments on how this or that political or economic decision, presently at issue in his show, could affect the common people of Russia.