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President’s Report, November 15, 2005
Dear CCI Friends and new readers, This month, CCI is extraordinarily busy with the largest PEP fall session ever. At the moment we have ten PEP delegations of Russian entrepreneurs active in twelve...
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President’s Report, January 1, 2006
Dear Friends of CCI, Please join us in celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Productivity Enhancement Program! Ten years ago today, PEP’s funding from the U.S. Department of State became official. We...
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President’s Report, May 19, 2006
Dear Friends of CCI, My apologies for the months that have elapsed since my last letter on this site. It’s been a period of 24/7 activity, and there was only time for the most urgent of tasks, many of...
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Addendum, May 19, 2006
Addendum: Perspectives on Russia and the US-Russia Relationship What do we see as we travel around Russia, talking to entrepreneurs, theirparents, their children, journalists, bureaucrats, physicians,...
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President’s Report, June 1, 2006
Dear CCI friends, It’s 5 am, and I’m en route to Moscow after a visit to Kazan, a lovely 1000-year-old city deep in the heart of Western Russia. It took much persuasion to get me here this year, mainly...
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President’s Report, June 4, 2006
Dear CCI friends, Amid sensationalized and politicized reporting on Russia and US-Russia relations today, it’s a breath of fresh air to read the Kennan Institute report below where four scholars,...
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President’s Report, June 12, 2006
Dear CCI friends, In outlying Russian cities, CCI has no representatives. Somehow or another Russia’s entrepreneurs learn about and apply for PEP, then interview in the nearest CCI office. One such...
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President’s Report, June 14, 2006
Dear CCI friends, A SUV arrived in Yaroslavl to transport us to Rybinsk where two PEP alumni in their 40s: 1) Alexander Ivanov, Commercial Director of manufacturing company, Fobos, PEP #206, 2001,...
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President’s Report, June 18, 2006
Dear CCI and PEP Supporters, Yesterday was a historic day for Russian Rotarians – RI District 2220, the first purely Russian-led, Rotary District was been born. It includes all of Western Russia and...
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President’s Report, April 8, 2007
Dear CCI Supporters: We just saw off four bus loads of Russian entrepreneurs on their way to Dulles Airport to catch Aeroflot back to Moscow, and afterward to their home cities across all time zones in...
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