Geopolitics
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Geopolitics ⋆
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Border guards with Bill's MTV umbrella at the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Launch of the first MTV broadcast on Russian channels in 1993, Moscow, with the Pet Shop Boys
MTV Russia launch in 1998, marking the first time a Western music television network established a localized channel in Russia.
With Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in Beirut, Lebanon
Amongst the rubble in Beirut
Vilnius, Lithuania, 1990. The city was still occupied by elite Black Beret Russian troops. Inside the barricaded office of Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, he and Bill discussed bringing MTV to Lithuania—the first nation to break from the Soviet Union, taking an irrevocable step toward democracy. Bill presented him with a piece of the Berlin Wall.
At the "MTV" Magyar Televizio building in Budapest. Hungary, 1991
Bill and Marc Conneely at the Jewish ghetto memorial in Warsaw, Poland 1992.
Bill at the same memorial in Warsaw for March of the Living, April 2024.
Bill presents the MTV ‘Free Your Mind’ Award to Mikhail Gorbachev, December 2009
Bill Roedy honoring Stanislaw Petrov, a soldier from the Former Soviet Union, an 'unsung hero' who's decision on September 26th, 1983 not to retaliate against 5 US missiles launched into Russian airspace, potentially saved us all from a nuclear Holocaust. Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2013
Bill with President Gorbachev for the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9th 2014
Alex Roedy, Mikhail Gorbachev & Bill Roedy, Berlin, November 2014
(L to R) Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Sir Bob Geldof, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Bill Roedy
Bill with his section of the Berlin Wall at his London home
With President Bill Clinton at the biannual AIDs Conference in Vienna in 2010.
Many know this iconic photo but few know its ties to MTV... In 1996, during the first national Presidential election in Russia, Yeltsin modeled his campaign after the Choose or Lose MTV campaign to encourage youth voting in Russia (also known as Rock the Vote in the USA). Soon after the famous dance, Yeltsin survived a heart attack.
Bill in Afghanistan, 2007
With an Afghani soldier on the left, showing our preferred weapons.
Having tea with Afghan locals
Traditional Afghan lunch
Bill speaking at the UN General Assembly
Bill Roedy with Pentavalent vaccine which has been administered to 400 million children as of 2013 in Dar-es-Salaam, GAVI, Tanzania, November 2013
Little patient waiting for his Pentavalent vaccine, GAVI, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, November 2014
With healthcare worker outside Dar-Es-Salaam for GAVI, November 2013
Bill Roedy climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for HIV/AIDS awareness amfAR, April 2014
The Roedy family climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for HIV/AIDS awareness amfAR
With orphaned children during a visit to Mumbai, India in 2004.
Bill and Kofi Annan
Bill on a UNAIDS panel
Bill Roedy, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Chair of USMEP Thomas Pickering at our board meeting 25 October 2016
David Petraeus and Bill Roedy receiving Churchill fellowship. Fulton, Missouri – April 1st, 2017
Bill Roedy & Michael Chertoff, former head of United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Bill with Senator George Mitchell
Dean Reuben Brigety II, of Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University with Bill & Alex Roedy
Bill & David Petraeus - Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011 - November 9, 2012.
Bill & Dalai Lama
Meeting Israeli seeds in Sderot, Israeli/Gaza strip boarder town October 2014
Water recycling initiative in Jordan on the border with Syria, Seeds of Peace Trip to the Middle East, October 2014
Meeting Deputy Mayor of Sderot, overlooking Israel/Gaza strip, October 2014
At the Gaza border on a Seeds of Peace trip, 2014
The Churchill Fellows who were inducted Saturday, April 1, 2017
Jim Clancy, CNN International anchor and Bill Roedy at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin for the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9th 2014
UN Week in NYC with President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame & Amir Dossal, September 2014
Bill Roedy and Alex Roedy with President Bill Clinton
Alex Roedy, Desmond Tutu, Goldie Hawn, and Bill Roedy
With Mr MTV Condom (far right) on a boat in Robbin Island
UN week, Sept 2013, Michel Sidibé, Naomi Watts, Bill and Michel's Deputy CEO from Mexico, Luiz Loures
Bill Roedy and John McCain
Bill Roedy and Desmond Tutu
With Bono and Judy McGrath walking across the Pariser Platz to the Brandenburg Gate during the 2009 EMA's in Berlin.
With Bill Flanagan and U2 manager Paul McGuinness in Berlin as the band rehearses in the background.
Bill on the cover of Marker Week Israel, 2009
With Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in his Jerusalem office.
Alex and Bill with sister Mallory at the Vietnam Wall memorial after Bill’s speech honoring West Point class of 1970 and those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. October 10th 2015, Washington DC.
Churchill Memorabilia presented by Judy McGrath, Chairwoman and CEO of MTVN.
Bill receiving the Churchill Leadership Medal Award in June 2024