Mark Pomar (Russian Institute ’76; Ph.D. Slavic Languages ’78) is interviewed by Ivan Tolstoy about his experiences as an exchange fellow in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. Pomar, former president of IREX and member of the Harriman National Advisory Council, has written a piece about academic exchanges with Russia for the Fall 2021 issue of Harriman Magazine. He is the author of the forthcoming book: Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books). In Russian.