Stuart Loory

He grew up in Dover, New Jersey, where his parents, Harry and Eve Loory, owned a large furniture store.

After three years at the Newark News, he received a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1958, and did postgraduate work in Vienna, Austria.

In 1980, he joined the staff of Turner Broadcasting Systems' Cable News Network (as managing editor of the Washington bureau, 1980–82; Moscow bureau chief, 1983–86; senior correspondent, 1986; executive producer, 1987–90; editor-in-chief of CNN World Report, 1990–91; vice-president of CNN, 1990–95; executive vice-president, Turner International Broadcasting, Russia, 1993–97).

In the mid-1990s, Stuart met Nina Kudriavtseva while hosting Ted Turner and Jane Fonda in the Czar's Box at Bolshoi Theatre.

Nina travels to Moscow many times a year to visit her family there from a previous marriage, and as artistic director of Benois De La Danse, the international ballet awards.