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Hi Friends,
The last day of our most recent trip to Russia has come. CCI contributor Ted McIntire traveled with me on this trip, in which we interviewed CCI alumni about their experiences since their training and learned their thoughts about things currently going on in their country, as well as about the current relations between our two countries.
Between Feb 4 and 19, we traveled to three cities: St. Petersburg, Moscow and Volgograd.
From: Sharon in St. Petersburg
February 5, 2016
Dear Friends,
I’ve vowed to look for the positive side of international news these days with the ever-present belief that “It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
Walking down the runway to board the Finnair plane at JFK airport, I was pleased to see that Finnair still provides a table of newspapers before entering the plane — a treat that few other airlines offer these days. I picked up the 3 February 2016 edition of the New York Times.
On June 2, 2015 we 20 American travelers split into groups of four and traveled by metros or taxis with student guides to different parts of Moscow. Our videographer Mel Van Dusen, Merlin Miller, organizer of a new political party from Tennessee, Charles Heberle, retired military who worked at the Pentagon and NATO and I went to see an old acquaintance with whom I’d kept up for over 30 years.
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Huffington Post – July 28, 2015
After traveling to Russia for more than 30 years as a “citizen diplomat,” Sharon Tennison isn’t buying the war propaganda intended to demonize Putin and cast us back into a Cold War. Originally a nurse in San Francisco, she has traveled in Russia more extensively than most citizens of that country, taking fellow Americans there to see for themselves, finding future entrepreneurs to bring to the US on scouting trips, spreading the idea of Rotary International, speaking widely in both countries, writing an astonishing memoir called The Power of Impossible Ideas.