Developed a project with Abamedia on its Historical Reflections media project, which includes film interviews with major contributors to Russian and Russian-American oral histories and archival research that will eventually become part of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Co-sponsored the third annual Track Two Benefit Conference with the Global Business Network (GBN), a worldwide organization that specializes in futures research and scenario planning. Our program was titled “Futures For Russia.” Representatives from Ford Motor Company, Cargill, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Saudi Aramco, Fannie Mae, and Texaco attended the meeting. Economist Abel Aganbegyan, technology entrepreneur Igor Kulgan, Russian writer and journalist Viktor Erofeyev and sociologist Manuel Castells presented up-to-the minute reports on the situation in Russia.

Co-sponsored the Ballet Beyond Borders project with the Russian Cultural Fund in Moscow. Leading Russian and American dancers of the San Francisco Ballet toured the former Soviet Union, performing in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Donetsk, Ufa, Kiev, L’viv, Alma Ata, Tallin and Vilnius