birthday celebration short and flee Georgia after his hotel was blockaded by protesters calling him a "Kremlin propagandist". Protesters pelted Pozner's entourage with eggs and were angry with his past statements, where in 2010, Pozner blamed Georgia for the situation that led to the Russo-Georgian War and said: "Georgia lost [Abkhazia] forever" and that it "will never be Georgia's territory again." The visit was permitted by the Georgian government, and Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili defended his government's decision to permit the visit, saying that Pozner had a negative test for COVID-19 on entry which was valid and that he did not appear to break any local laws aimed at opposing the Russian military occupation of the breakaway regions. Garibashvili blamed the National Movement and its supporters for the incident, calling the protests "actions that violated civilized norms and Georgian standards". Books References Notes External links // Yale University 1934 births American emigrants to the Soviet Union American male journalists American people of French descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent Communist Party of the Soviet Union members TV Rain Echo of Moscow radio presenters French emigrants to the Soviet Union French people of Russian-Jewish descent Journalists from New York City Living people People who emigrated to escape Nazism Russian journalists Russian male journalists Russian television personalities Soviet journalists Soviet television presenters Stuyvesant High School alumni Moscow State University alumni Soviet propagandists Russian atheists Russian restaurateurs