from just perch at radio moscow to his talent for simultaneous translation george was an observer of the world changed the world came to george it was often through sports where there was no politics i also did mainly my work yet radio moscow at that time was translating and as a recorder and interviewing people in russian and translating him. into english. and. there was a lot of public focus on the. track and field meet between deactivates of the united states and the soviet union. and there was. great interest in the east track and field nice especially in the long distance runners. because everyone was cheering for the american team who supported the americans and everyone cheering for the soviet long. 1000 that nicki stadium at the one of these. track and field meets between the u.s. soviet athletes there was. a long distance race going on in the in the stadium i was in the on the ground in the center on the grass field on the track was around there and. it was very hot that day one of the american athletes fainted while he was on the track and he fell down and. the officials wh

russian sounding and that's where how we end up in radio moscow later on when we finished studying at institute . we managed to get a job there. i translated interpreted in the kremlin crew shot of lenin brashness saying gone i didn't translate your but. because he never would finish his sentence since never. but i have voiced him even at the r t. 3 or 4 times. you saw i was voicing him and he waved to me. and i waved back at him and then we had translated yeltsin in the kremlin and even song he sang. a very eloquent speaker never i never translated and drop of. our younger guys i never translated in a 1000000 was something atrocious. he didn't know what he was talking about the translator can translate only what he understands. that's the basic and that's the bottom line you can translate only what you understand. odds no team no crowd. no shots. actually helps because. well it's track no 1st. points your thirst for action. you cannot be bold with the yeah you like. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll

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the untold story of moscow's efforts to win the space race by putting a man on the moon. next. crime fighters. africa's most successful radio drama series continues to all of us odes are available online course you can share and disco song w africa's facebook page and other social media platforms for a crime fighter to me now. pictures of moscow's moon rocket images that were to be among the soviet union's most closely guarded state secrets. and pictures of cars minot's training for a moon landing in the so-called star city near moscow the soviet union was determined to beat the united states. in the race to put a man on the moon a race that would cost russian and american lives. the russians had always set the pace but in the end they ultimately lost the 20th century's most prestigious race was. opened in 1957 baikonur cosmodrome was moscow's gateway to the stars. after the launch of several sputnik satellites and unmanned moon probes in the late 1950 s. the whole world assumed that the soviets would also be using baikonur to send cosmonauts to the moon. there were certainly concrete plans but nothing was leaked there were

. >> reporter: vladimir pozner in moscow made the first of what would be many appearances on "nightline" as a radiontator. >> i do not agree with what you call an invasion. i'm very happy to have the opportunity to argue our viewpoint. >> reporter: he was an effective apologist for the kremlin. these days, still based in moscow, pozner is an independent voice with a highly popular national television program on public affairs. you talked to a lot of the thinkers and policy-makers in russia. >> yes, i do. reporter: if you were to synthesize their attitude toward the united states and how it has changed over the last few years, what would you say? >> it's kind of lost its idealism that was so important to the rest of the world and to this country, especially to those who wanted freedom back in the day, you and i used to speak to dissonance and there, the generation that followed. there's a feeling that somehow america has gotten off the track that made it america and made it so attractive to the rest of the world. >> the view of the united states has changed quite sharply in the era of president trum