Dear Friends of CCI,
We wish you a wonderful New Year in 2020!
Thank you for the year just passing when you have intellectually and spiritually supported CCI’s mission between our two nations, the U.S. and Russia. For you Americans who have provided multiple volunteer services we are so grateful… and especially those of you who have paid to travel on CCI’s investigative trips to Russia to determine for yourselves, your colleagues and networks, what is currrently happening across Russia and the world (which is not in our mainstream media).
A special acknowledgement to our Russian Experts in Moscow: President Mikhail Gorbachev & Pavel Palazhhchenko, Vladimir Pozner, Vladimir Kozin, Andrey Kortunov, Christopher Weafer, Dmitri Babich, Alexander Korobko, Pavel Velikov, the OrthoClinic physicians, all of whom have given of their time, shared their points of view and answered the many questions of our traveling Americans.
Deep gratitudes to you Russian citizens who in 2019 hosted unknown Americans in your cities and homes and most importantly helped our U.S. travelers to experience and understand Russian culture, mentality and hospitality. A huge thanks to all of you volunteers in Moscow, Barnaul, Belgorod, Chelyabinsk, Simferopol, Yalta, Sebastapol, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Kungur, Orenburg, Perm, Torzok, Tula, Tver, Ufa and St.Petersburg!
May our 2019 efforts to bring knowledge, understanding, Peace and Goodwill between our leaders begin showing evidences of Hope and Success in the coming year!!!
The warmest of wishes from us to you in 2020!!!
Sharon Tennison
President and Founder (since 1983)
Center for Citizen Initiatives