Joe Adamov was a journalist and presenter on Radio Moscow and its successor the Voice of Russia for over sixty years. Although of Armenian descent, he was born in Batumi, Georgia. During most of his career he was a resident of Moscow, Russia. His death was reported on Voice of Russia's English-language news bulletins on 2005-12-20 although neither these bulletins nor the obituary on their website gave an exact date of death. Wikipedia
Well, we got off the phone, and I called NBC news and said that I was calling for Joe Adamov in Moscow, and they gave me Bob Abernathy's number, and we spoke several times! www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/6422/joe1.html
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