16 October 2018
October 13th-15th, the annual Fort-Ross Dialogue Forum took place in San Francisco. The venue of the international forum was the Fort Ross California Historic Park, a settlement, which was founded by Russian merchants at the beginning of the 19th century. The Russian-American dialogue is aimed at improving bilateral relations in times of international tension.
The event was attended by the Russian Ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, California Governor Jerry Brown, the Governor of the Novgorod Region Andrey Nikitin, the Vice President of Transneft Mikhail Margelov and others.
A major international conference took place in the framework of the forum, during which the sides mulled over ways to restore friendly relations between their countries. A memorial Cross was unveiled and blessed at the cemetery in Fort Ross and a commemoration ceremony for Russian sailors was held at the Mare Island Naval Cemetery, in San Francisco.
MGIMO was represented at the event by Ekaterina Shebalina from the Department of Diplomacy and Artem Polyskalov student of the School of International Relations, who gave presentations on the history and current state of Russian-American relations and how academic diplomacy can help resolve conflicts.
— See the MGIMO web-site for more photos and russian version
