Valeriu (Vladimir) Saharneanu was born on 3 August 1952 in Cuizăuca, Rezina District, where he completed his elementary studies (1959–1969).
[citation needed] He attended also courses in Romania (1993), Berlin (1995), Brussels (1996), Paris (1998), Thessaloniki (1999), Strasbourg (2002), Cairo (2004), Norway (2005), the United States (2006).
[citation needed] During the 1994 parliamentary election, Saharneanu was attacked at the entrance of the building where he lived and was sick for three months.
[citation needed] On 25 January 2004, at a meeting of an opposition party in Chişinău, officials restricted journalistic activities.
[citation needed] As president of the Moldovan Journalists Union, Saharneanu gave a speech at the meeting on the necessity to defend media independence and freedoms.