Our History

• Sponsored a summer salon in Moscow at the Kapitsa Dacha (country house) that continued work on the Historical Reflections Project and the Memorial Library of Psychological Literature.

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• Held meetings, during the summer, at the Institute of Polio-Myelitis in Moscow to help further our work to improve vaccine production and distribution in Russia. Prior to those meetings we hosted Professor Sergei Drozdov, the Director of the Moscow Institute in Washington DC, and had meetings sponsored by the Center for Disease Control and the Sabin Institute at Sabin’s headquarters at Georgetown University.

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• Began collaboration with the Institute of Psychology and Psychotherapy to bring a psychologist to Berkeley, California to join the staff at Berkeley Mental Health (BMH) for a program set up especially for the exchange of information about the delivery of public mental health services in the United States. The psychologist Alexander Zinchenko spent almost a year doing clinical training there in order to incorporate his knowledge into a similar program for the development of public mental health services in Russia.

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• Sponsored the second annual Track Two Benefit Conference. The theme was “Russia in Crisis,” held in Pebble Beach, California. The conference re-emphasized and strengthened our sense of joint commitment. Well known economist, Abel Aganbegyan, and political scientist Alexander Tsipko gave us up-to date information on the financial collapse in Russia that occurred just days after our return from Moscow.

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• Began discussions with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University to archive our years of work with the former Republics of the USSR.