Dear CCI Friends, If there is any month that seems appropriate to discuss ‘things of the spirit,’ it is December, since Christmas, Hanukkah and other spiritual traditions are clumped together in this month. I’d like to share with you my evolving thoughts on Russian Orthodoxy, in addition to a CCI YouTube below that we recently […]
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Dear Friends, You may be asking, “How does CCI find all of these Russian people to host Americans in cities and regions across Russia?” It’s very simple. Between 1988 and 2008, we brought more than 8,000 Russians to American cities. They came on various CCI trips: from simple citizen diplomacy to more sophisticated programs such as […]
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Dear CCI Friends, To those of you who have participated directly in our face-to-face diplomacy both across Russia and here in our American cities, we are so grateful to you. Also, many thanks to those of you who have become informal educators, resending CCI’s educational emails to your colleagues, friends and families. We greatly appreciate […]
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Dear CCI Friends, We are sending belated reports from our travelers who visited Russia’s regions this past September. Relatively few Americans have visited the city of Irkutsk, Siberia which is 4,200 kilometers or 2,260 miles due east from Moscow. Russia is approximately 6,000 miles wide. Irkutsk was settled in 1661 as a Cossack community. Following […]
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Dear CCI Friends, Enjoy this report from lovely Krasnodar in the south of Russia. In September, our CCI travelers Pamela Tetarenko and Bill Headley visited the region for four days. In this short writing, they will become wonderful reporters for you to vicariously enjoy this city and its warm people. Sharon Tennison Center for Citizen […]
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Dear Friends of CCI, We present you three videos below of Dr.Vladimir Kozin, lead expert at the Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, regarding weapons of mass destruction and what must be done to prevent their use on civilian populations again. He urges that in order to ensure the existence of our […]
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Dear CCI Friends, I want to share with you my favorite young news journalist in Moscow, Dmitri (Dima) Babich. He is one of our “CCI Experts.” I’ve known Dima a long, long time. He is very fond of America, speaks flawless English and always finds something light-hearted to say regardless of how difficult the situation is between Washington, […]
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Dear Friends of CCI, We’ve sent out quite a lot of information about our September 2018 trip to Russia. It was a “first-of-its-kind” trip. It exceeded our original goals––and it whets our intentions to be more daring with 2019’s diplomacy efforts! Thankfully, we were able to get six of our 25 travelers together in the […]
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Dear CCI Friends, Politico issued a dire warning on February 1 from reputable American specialists who were central to tamping down the Nuclear Arms Race in the 1980s. Will their message get out to mainstream Americans this time? And will the current Congress be willing to address this frightening issue? It’s up to people like […]
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Despite everything, it is still in our power to avoid nuclear confrontation. February 14, 2019 By Mikhail Gorbachev Kirill Zykov / Moskva News Agency The fate of the INF treaty has politicians and ordinary people worried on every continent. I am also concerned, and not only because I signed that treaty with former U.S. President […]
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Dear CCI Friends, At last a decades-long traditional U.S.-oriented Russia analyst and professor, Dr. Angela Stent, is admitting to second thoughts about America’s policies toward Russia, including what Russia hoped for and needed after the USSR imploded. She also gives Putin a break from the norm of demonizing, and sees him as a leader who […]
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Dear CCI Friends, The dramatic and dangerous deterioration in relations between the U.S. and Russia demands that we all take unprecedented actions in 2019. It requires that citizens find unusual ways to educate and break through the mire of political actions and inaction to create new initiatives. CCI led the way in U.S.-USSR relations in […]
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Dear CCI Friends, I need your assistance! This is about CCI’s September Citizen Diplomacy Trip to Russia. We hope for a 100 member delegation. Consider traveling with us on this “one-of-a-kind” trip. It will be CCI’s most intensive diplomacy effort ever. Travelers will meet with and question a dozen Russian Experts in Moscow including Mikhail Gorbachev […]
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Dear CCI Friends, America’s VIP elders, those most closely involved with nuclear weapons in the past, are speaking out with great concern and great clarity today. Read below. Will the current U.S. government and Congress listen … or will they continue with their reckless manner of avoiding the truth and putting us all in jeopardy? […]
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Dear CCI Followers, Our 2019 Mega-Diplomacy Trip to Russia for September 1 – 17 is in the planning phase––It’s exciting! If you haven’t signed up, please do so. It will be the most extensive exploratory trip ever taken to Russia by American citizens–and the last CCI trip of its genre and scope. Become a Citizen Diplomat, […]
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Dear CCI Readers, We need more realists, particularly those in positions of name recognition. We need them to pledge to promote “realism” among and for us all, particularly when a Nuclear War hangs in the balance. Too often, Democrats and Republicans alike, support politics-as-usual and even worse, write dissing commentary for those who promote realism. In […]
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Friends, Today we sit at the juncture of another Nuclear War crisis — this time few Americans are even discussing it amongst themselves. Life is going on as though our lives and our planet are blessed with some sort of perpetuity. Study the article below and ponder … Are we like lemmings wandering off to […]
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CCI Friends, Some of you began flooding me last week with a Daily Beast article (a publication I’ve never read). Apparently, the Beast identified three of us who purportedly gave contributions to Tulsi Gabbard for the 2020 election. Out of all of the millions who are interested in and may have contributed to this candidate, how could […]
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Friends, The risks of turning our planet into an inferno increases by the day. Meanwhile leading newspapers and channels carry endless squabbles between Democrats and Republicans, 2020 candidates, anything but the “elephant in the room.” Why are we Americans not reacting with alarm as we did in the 1980s when the first nuclear stand-off rocked our […]
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The Baltimore Sun By Doug Mallouk June 10, 2019 Has the current tide of hysteria against all things Russian risen to the point that European and American policymakers are now attempting an Orwellian rewrite of the history of World War II? This is no mere academic matter of misrepresenting the past but has life-and-death importance […]
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