Dear Community of CCI Friends,

Following the February 2016 trip to St. Petersburg, Moscow and Volgograd, I took time out to restore my energy systems––they were near depleted from the past year of travel and 70-hour work weeks. Next was to re-examine how to best use CCI’s resources in the coming months. And last, to determine what was behind my totally unexpected and bizarre “pick-up” and detainment during the Volgograd Rotary meeting on February 18th––and to assure my Visa status for future travel in Russia.

In this April 2016 President’s Report, I want to share with you the extreme seriousness of the current situation between Washington and Moscow. It has been an extraordinarily dangerous game of international wits and high stakes since the beginnings of the Maidan protests in 2014. Yet U.S.mainstream media have provided little coverage of the grave standoff between the two nuclear Superpowers.   [Continue Reading]