Our History

• Sponsored fourteen highly ranked young tennis players from Northern California to the Russian Far East to compete with their counterparts in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok.

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• Conducted a leadership conference at Esalen, Big Sur, California, that developed alternative scenarios for the future of Russian-American relations.

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• Initiated a program with Lindisfarne Press to publish English language editions of major Russian philosophers, including Solovyov, Berdyaev and Bulgakov. Nine volumes in this series were eventually published with the help of a generous grant from Laurance Rockefeller.

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• Participated in the Forbes Management Forum of Management and Policy in San Diego, California. Vladimir Pozner, Mark Garber, Jay Ogilvy and Dulce Murphy participated in a panel discussion with several hundred business leaders about Russian-American relations and “Russia: America’s Blind Spot,” the title of Pozner’s speech.

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• Established the Library of Psychological Literature at Moscow State University and began collecting psychology books and journals from American psychologists to form the basis of this much needed educational partnership in psychology.