Vladimir Pavlovich Dunayev is a Soviet international journalist, political observer for Central Television and All-Union Radio, and screenwriter. Laureate of the State Prize (1976). Graduated from the International Law Faculty of MGIMO. During his studies, he worked for large-circulation newspapers and on the radio. In 1951-1963, he worked in the international department of the Trud newspaper. Since 1963, he has been a commentator at Gosteleradio. Political observer for Central Television and All-Union Radio, worked as a correspondent in Great Britain and the USA. He taught at the Department of International Journalism at MGIMO. He is the author of the name of the news program Vremya. Author of numerous reports from different countries of the world, one of the hosts of the programs Segodnya v mire and International Panorama. Screenwriter and presenter of documentaries on international topics. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. In the last years of his life, he was a correspondent for Central Television in the USA. He died in Washington as a result of a heart attack. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo Cemetery.
