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2006 Year in
Review
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| January |
We receive New Year Greetings from Archangel Mayor Alexander
Donskoy with hope to "continue our successful cooperation in solving
problems and tasks for the sake of people of our cities". |
| February |
At our Annual Social Gathering, we heard from Sally Regan about
her Peace Corps duty in Ukraine and from Archangel's Tatiana
Vorobieva. |
| March |
Ten Committee members and guests attend a "Citizen Diplomacy
Summit" in Portland. The event is sponsored by Sister Cities
International and by the City of Portland. |
| April |
We participate in the first Internet Video Bridge with our
friends in Archangel; Portland radio station WLOB interviews
Archangel Assistant Mayor Sergey Namoylik on the air. Both events
are part of "America Week in Archangel". |
| May |
U.S. Magistrate Judge Margaret Kravchuk of
Bangor leads a four-member legal delegation to Archangel to focus on
judicial conduct and professional responsibility. |
| June |
Committee members attend local fundraiser for the Portland
Chamber Music Festival. The theme was on Portland's Four Sister
Cities. Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap leads a four person
legal delegation to Archangel to focus on local self-governance. |
| July |
A combined Rule of Law and Sister City delegation travels to the
Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to see old friends Dima,
Svetlana, Anna and Olga. |
| August |
Our Committee website hosts its 16,000th visitor (www.arkhangelsk.org)
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| September |
Committee member Matt Dunlap speaks at Adult Russian Day at
Colby College. We help the Maine Department of Transportation host
three Archangel AVTODOR transportation engineers. Committee members
particpate in a Waterville forum hosting medical professionals from
Kotlas. |
| October |
Committee members give a PowerPoint presentation on Solovki to
the Portland chapter of the AARP. |
| November |
Our Committee helps host a six person delegation of Archangel
Arbitrage and District Court Judges. |
| December |
We participate in the second Internet Video Bridge themed a
"Christmas Meeting of Friends". Plans for the third Bridge are made! |
2005 Year in
Review
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| January |
We exchange New Year's Greetings with Archangel Oblast and
Municipal governments. |
| February |
At our Annual Social Gathering, representatives from our
Committee, the Waterville Committee and the Portsmouth Committee
present plans for 2005; in addition, visiting students from. the
Archangel Region speak about home. |
| March |
Our Committee hosts the Archangel Rock Band "Blind Vandal",
including three musicians, an engineer and a manager. The Band
performs concerts in Maine and Massachusetts, is featured on WBLM
and WMPG radio stations, and is the subject of a large story in the
Portland Press Herald. |
| April |
Committee members join representatives from eight other U.S.
states at the Annual Rule of Law Conference in Boston. |
| May |
Committee and World War II Convoy Veteran
Donald Wampler joins over 100 British convoy veterans in Archangel
to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Victory Day. A Maine legal
delegation travels to Pskov (near Saint Petersburg) to participate
in a conference focusing on domestic violence & child protection. |
| June |
Committee members help the Maine Department of Transportation
host Archangel Traffic Safety Engineer Denis Kulizhnikov. |
| July |
Our Committee website records its 12,000th visitor (www.arkhangelsk.org) |
| August |
Committee members Dennis Marrotte and Jean
Souliere attend a conference of Northeastern American
communities with Russian sister cities in Saratoga Springs NY.
Other members attend official and social events in Portsmouth NH
relating to a visiting delgation from Severodvinsk and the 100th
Anniversary of the signing of the Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty.
Finally, member Linda Rennebu travels to Kotlas and Archangel
with the Waterville group.
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| September |
Our Committee helps host an eight member legal delegation from
Archangel which included Regional and Commercial Court Judges. |
| October |
We participate in an organizational meeting of Portland-area
international groups that are planning a "Citizen Summit" in 2006. |
| November |
We attend the Waterville/Kotlas Annual Meeting. |
| December |
Our Committee hosts a four person delegation from the Solovetsky
Islands in the White Sea northwest of the City of Archangel. The
delegation is led by Solovki Mayor Dmitri Lugovoy and Solovki Museum
Assistant Director Svetlana Lebedeva. Plans for a continuing
relationship are discussed. |
2004 Year in
Review
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| January |
The Chief Justice of Maine's Supreme Court praises the
Maine-Archangel judicial exchange program in her Annual Address to
the Maine Legislature. |
| February |
At our Annual Social Gathering, visiting students from
Severodvinsk and Archangel show photographs and speak of their
experiences here in Maine and New Hampshire. |
| March |
Committee members Dennis Marrotte, Neale Duffett and Marina
Trebukhina present lectures - to school children at the Waterville/Kotlas
Committee's Russian Sampler Day at Colby College in Waterville. |
| April |
Our Committee and the University of Maine School of Law host
four law professors from Archangel. Social events are held with
members of the Waterville and Portsmouth groups. Seven legal
professionals from Maine travel to Archangel and conduct an intense
3 day conference focusing on domestic violence. |
| May |
Committee
member Ray Pelletier guides a Federal Bankruptcy Judge and two
other bankruptcy lawyers to Archangel to work with the Archangel
Commercial Court. While there, Ray delivers money to the relief fund
for victims of the March 2004 apartment house explosion and also
delivers medical supplies to
Dr. Sosnin. |
| June |
We help host Kotlas Mayor Alexander Shashurin and his delegation
as they visit Waterville. Two engineers from the Maine D.O.T. visit
Archangel to work on new techniques regarding bridge and pavement
work. |
| July |
Our High School Exchange SubCommittee is up and running with
expanded materials on our website at www.arkhangelsk.org. |
| August |
Committee members attend the Annual Rule of Law
Conference in Boston; delegates from seven U.S. states attended.
|
| September |
Our High School Exchange Subcommittee organizes and staffs an
informational table at Falmouth High School Activities Night. |
| October |
Committee helps host two
separate delegations from Archangel: a seven person Legal
group focusing on domestic violence and an eight person legal group
focusing on bankruptcy law. A number
of enjoyable social events were held with each delegation. |
| November |
Committee member Masha Vorobieva visits Archangel and meets with
leaders of the Duma. In Maine, we attend the Waterville/Kotlas
Annual Meeting where the late Founder of their exchange Natalia
Kempers was honored and remembered. |
| December |
Our Committee website records its 10,000th visitor. |
2003 Year in
Review
|
| January |
Committee member Ray Pelletier guides Maine Legislators Matt
Dunlap and David Trahan ta Archangel for work with the Archangel
Duma. Ray also delivers money from our Committee to area,
Orphanages, and delivers medical supplies to Dr. Sosnin. |
| February |
At our Annual. Social Gathering, Maine. Legislator Matt Dunlap
shows video and speaks of his January trip to the Archangel Duma.
Members from the Waterville/Kotlas and Portsmouth/Severodvinsk
committees join us. |
| March |
Committee members Dennis Marrotte and Steve Cowpertwaite present
lectures to school children from all over Maine at Russian Sampler
Day at Colby College. This event is organized by the Waterville/Kotlas
committee. |
| April |
Committee member Carol-Lynn Rossel presents her photographs of
Russia with accompanying poetry at the University of Maine in
Augusta. |
| May |
Five Maine judges and lawyers visit Archangel and focus on
domestic violence issues. Committee members James and Janie Ghaffari
deliver clothing and supplies to Archangel orphanages. |
| June |
Our Committee website records its 5000th visitor. Two Maine
D.O.T. engineers visit with their counterparts in Archangel. |
| July |
Judges of Archangel’s newly created District Court system visit
Washington DC where they are hosted by the Library of Congress. |
| August |
The same nine Judges travel to Maine for a
week-long visit focusing on criminal justice and domestic violence
issues. They meet Governor Baldacci.
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| September |
Two engineers from the Archangel D.O.T. work on information
technology issues on a visit here with the Maine D. 0. T. |
| October |
Seven members of Maine's legal community visit Archangel as part
of the Rule of Law Program, focusing on jury trials, legal clinic
development, the establishment of a district court system there, and
on familiarization with the corrections system there. The delegation
also delivered humanitarian supplies to the Northern Clinical
Hospital and delivered money to the City and Regional Orphanages. |
| November |
The University of Maine School of Law hosts four Russian law
professors; they participate in election night activities and meet
Congressman Tom Allen and Governor-Elect John Baldacci. |
| December |
Committee members Ray Pelletier and Dennis Marrotte are guests
on a Saturday morning talk show on radio station WLOB. |
2002 Year in
Review
|
| January |
Committee members participate in the Annual Rule of Law
Conference in Boston; delegations from seven U.S. states attended. |
| February |
At our Annual Social Gathering, Dennis Marrotte and Jean
Souliere show slides of the November 2001 visit of convoy veteran
Boris Korotyaev to Maine, and help present an award to a former
shipyard worker: 86 year old Shirley Wilder. |
| March |
Archangel Duma Members Stanislov Vtori and Yuri Spiridonov
return to Russia after a week of intense work with the Maine House
of Representatives. |
| April |
Several judges and prosecutors from the Archangel Region attend
a special Rule of Law Conference in Vologda, Russia focusing on the
investigation and prosecution of complex economic crimes. |
| May |
Our Committee Website records its 3000th visitor. |
| June |
Committee member Steve Cowperthwaite delivers informational
materials to the Director of the Kenozero National Park in
Archangel; he also delivers assistance to Dr. Pavlov at the
Archangel City Orphanage. |
| July |
Committee member Ray Pelletier attends a Russian Business
Roundtable in Portland sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
Committee member and Federal Magistrate Judge Margaret Kravchuk
helped host a delegation of Archangel legal leaders in Washington
DC. |
| August |
Three Archangel judges, three prosecutors and
three defense lawyers from the Archangel Region visit Maine as
part of the Library of Congress "Open World" program. Their
visit-focuses on jury trials and oral advocacy skills.
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| September |
Committee members travel to Portsmouth NH to help greet visiting
Severodvinsk Mayor Alexander Beliaev. |
| October |
A Maine judge, prosecutor and law professor travel to Vologda
(halfway between Moscow and Archangel) and participate in an
advanced jury trial conference. |
| November |
Our Committee hosts three legal professionals from Archangel
with a $7,000 grant front the Library of Congress based "Open World
Program" through Sister Cities International. Duma member Ernest
Belokorovin, prosecutor Tatiana Yelsakova, and defense lawyer Evgeny
Kalinin focus on domestic violence and other legal and legislative
issues. |
| December |
Committee member Masha Vorobieva visits Archangel and meets with
Duma Chairman Vitali Fortygin and Duma member Ernest Belokorovin to
discuss future projects and exchanges. |
2001 Year in
Review
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| January |
At our Annual Meeting, Dennis Marrotte and Carol Lestock report
on their recent trip to Archangel and show slides of the new City
Orphanage. Members from the Portsmouth/Severodvinsk and
Waterville/Kotlas Connections also attend and give reports. |
| February |
The Legal Exchange Committee receive significant additional
funding for projects in 2001. |
| March |
A Maine Legal Delegation visits Archangel to conduct jury trial
training for Russian judges, lawyers, and law students. Maine
participants include a Superior Court Justice, three lawyers, and
two law professors. |
| April |
Our Committee raises money for the families of two sailors who
died when the submarine KURSK was lost in the Barents Sea. The
money is delivered directly to the two families in Archangel. |
| May |
Committee Co-Chair Carol Lestock is an honored guest at the
Russian Embassy in Washington DC at a reception for Archangel
Governor Anatoli Efremov. In Archangel, medical supplies from
Maine are delivered to Dr. Nikoli Sosnin. |
| June |
Committee member Daniel Glover visits Archangel and meets with
officials and veterans to plan the Convoy Veteran Exchange.
Additional medical supplies are delivered to Dr. Sosnin. |
| July |
Two separate Delegations from Archangel visit Maine at the same
time: a large Legal Delegation led by Archangel Oblast Duma
Chairman Vitali Fortygin and a smaller Transportation Delegation
led by Archangel Oblast Vice Governor Peter Orlov. Committee
members Daniel Glover and Dennis Marrotte organize a very
successful fundraising concert featuring chamber music by "Musica
Petropolitana" from Saint Petersburg; the funds will help the
Convoy Veterans Exchange. |
| August |
Maine World War II Arctic Convoy veteran Hugh
Stephens, his wife Elizabethand Committee guide Natasha Petrovsky
represent Maine and the United States. at the 60th
Anniversary Celebrations of the first Allied Convoy
into Archangel.
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| September |
A two person news crew from Archangel television Channel 6 visit
with Committee member Masha Vorobieva in New York City but are
unable to fly to Maine as planned because of the terrorist
attacks.A two person news crew from Archangel television Channel 6
visit with Committee member Masha Vorobieva in New York City but
are unable to fly to Maine as planned because of the terrorist
attacks. |
| October |
A Maine judge visits Archangel to work on establishing a website
for the publishing of Oblast Court decisions. |
| November |
Archangel Convoy Veteran Boris Korotyaev visits Maine and speaks
at the Liberty Ship Memorial Dedication and at the Veteran's Day
Parade. |
| December |
Two Maine legislators visit the Archangel Oblast Duma and share
experiences. |
2000
Year in Review
|
| January |
At our Annual Meeting, Dennis Marrotte and Alex
Norzow discuss their activities in Archangel when the
Humanitarian Aid container arrived in November, 1999. The
container cleared customs after they returned home. |
| February |
Our Committee co-sponsors Harvard Professor and
Russian expert Richard Pipes at a World Affairs Council Seminar. |
| March |
Some members attend the meeting of the Portsmouth/Severodvinsk
Connection where Linda Gunn is elected as their new President. |
| April |
Some members attend two public forums on current
Russian events sponsored by the Waterville/Kotlas Connection. |
| May |
Two Maine Law School professors conduct a
conference of four American and four Russian legal clinics in
Saint Petersburg, Russia. Two Archangel government officials
attend a legal seminar in Petrozavodst, Karelia on land transfer
and recording. Our Committee co-sponsors the dedication of the
World War II Arctic Convoy Memorial in Portland. |
| June |
Three people from the Maine Department of
Transportation visit Archangel and work with their counterparts
in the Archangel Regional Transportation Administration. This
continuing exchange is funded by the U.S. Highway Admin. |
| July |
Archangel Regional Deputy Governor Nikoli Malakov
visits Maine and meets with Committee members as well as
government and business leaders. Committee member Bob Willett
visit Archangel and meets with Pomor Vice-Rector Vladislav
Goldin to gather information about the Intervention for a book
that Bob is writing. |
| August |
Eight Judges from the Archangel Oblast are hosted
here by the Maine Law School and by the Federal and State
Judiciary. An engineer from the Archangel highway-department is
hosted by the Maine DOT and learns about municipal services and
bridge construction. |
| September |
Three American doctors from the CDC in Atlanta,
Georgia attend a World Health Organization Conference in
Archangel. A law professor and a judge from Maine visit
Archangel to work on a project designed to establish a system of
written legal precedent. |
| October |
Margarita Shengur, a teacher from Archangel School
Number 6, and her husband Valeri visit Maine and meet with
members of our Committee to discuss future. |
| November |
Committee leaders visit several organizations in
Archangel to discuss opportunities for future cooperation and
exchanges. Three people from Maine DOT visit Archangel and
sponsor a "Snow & Ice Control" Workshop. |
| December |
The Committee's improved website records its
1000th visitor! |
1999
Year in Review
|
| January |
Tom Keefe from the International Medical Equipment
Collaborative (IMEC), based in New Hampshire, addresses our Annual
Meeting about sending hospital and medical supplies to Russia. |
| February |
Committee member Dr. Alex Norzow visits Archangel to do
an initial assessment of the humanitarian needs of hospitals and
orphanages. |
| March |
Committee member Jim Jacobsen visits Archangel to
complete assessment. The Law School at Pomor University opens
its Legal Clinic to provide free legal services to those citizens in
need. |
| April |
Eleven Russian students and one teacher visit Maine for
the month. The host school is South Portland High School, and
the students participate in community service projects as well as
other events. Successful visits to Augusta, Boston and New York
were included. |
| May |
Nine government, education and business leaders from
Archangel visit Greater Portland for three days, an event made
possible by the Institute for Training and Development (ITD) in
Amherst, Massachusetts. |
| June |
Committee members Carol Lestock and Carol-Lynn Rossel
Waugh visit the Kenozero National Park in the Archangel Oblast. |
| July |
Our Committee Web-Site is established (yippee!).
Committee members begin many trips to IMEC in New Hampshire to clean
medical equipment and organize the humanitarian aid. In Maine,
committee members gather clothing and other donations for the
hospitals and orphanages. |
| August |
Our Legal Committee meets with our grantors in Vermont
to plan the Legal Exchanges for 2000. |
| September |
The forty foot humanitarian aid container is shipped
from IMEC. Special donation of appreciated stock allows us to
pay for ocean shipment; Hapag-Lloyd and Northern Shipping Company
provide us with reduced shipping costs as well. |
| October |
Our Committee is a founding member of the improved
International Relations Committee (IRC) at the Maine International
Trade Center. |
| November |
Committee members Alex Norzow and Dennis Marrotte visit
Archangel just as the Humanitarian aid container arrives there; they
work to make sure that there are no problems with customs and to
ensure proper planning for delivery of the materials. |
| December |
The contents of the container clear customs and are
delivered to three hospitals and three orphanages in Archangel,
Novodvinsk and Kotlas. The Pomor Legal Clinic serves its 300th
client. |
1998 Year in
Review
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| January |
An International Exhibition of Archangel Sister Cities is held in
Archangel by Mayor Balackshin; we send written greetings. |
| February |
Outgoing Maine high school students begin 7 weeks of cultural
education prior to going to Archangel for a month. |
| March |
Ten students and one teacher / chaperone arrive from Archangel for a
one month visit. Host school is Westbrook High School. One
student from Novodvinsk arrives to visit Rumford. |
| April |
Eight students and two chaperones from Maine arrive in Archangel for
one month visit. Host school is School #3. Chaperone Alex
Norzow visits orphanages in Archangel and Novodvinsk and delivers small
amount of supplies. Alex also visits hospitals in both cities and
delivers medical supplies. In Maine, the Russian students visit
Boston and Augusta. The student from Novodvinsk visits with
Rumford officials and formalizes official Sister City Relationship
between Rumford and Novodvinsk. |
| May |
Committee members take part in Maine International Trade Day,
sponsored by the Maine International Trade Center. Also, committee
members help in welcoming and hosting Project Harmony delegation from
Ukraine. |
| June |
Eleven Mainers travel to Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Archangel on
People-to-People Delegation. In Saint Petersburg, our delegation
takes part in Official Reception on board Maine Maritime Academy
Training Ship. |
| July |
Committee members host two master pianists from Saint Petersburg
Conservatory of Music. |
| August |
Committee member visits Kenozero and Pinega National Parks in
Archangel Region in order to further the relationship between these
Parks and the Rachel Carson National wildlife Refuge in Wells, Maine. |
| September |
USAID 3-member legal delegation to Archangel. The group teaches
classes, helps form a legal clinic for the poor, and delivers supplies
to hospitals and orphanages in Archangel and Novodvinsk. |
| October |
Archangel Chief Justice Mikhail Averin and two others visit Maine on
USAID legal delegation. Seven others from Archangel visit Maine as
People-to-People Delegation. Committee members also help host
Project Harmony Business Delegation from Archangel. |
| November |
Town of Long Island officially joins with the 13 other cities and
towns as part of the Russian Sister City Committee of Greater Portland. |
| December |
Humanitarian Committee formed to study sending significant amount of
aid to hospitals and orphanages in Archangel Region. |
1997 Year in
Review
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| January |
Student Teachers Olga Popova and Natasha Vishnakova arrive for 6
months of teaching and work in local schools. |
| February |
Committee members help in welcoming and hosting Project Harmony
delegation from Ukraine. Committee sends official congratulations
to newly elected Mayor of Archangel, Pavel Balackshin. |
| March |
The final USIA funded high school exchange starts with the arrival on
March 20 of 12 students from Archangel and the departure of 11 American
students. Also arriving from Archangel is Nastasha Pimonova who
will work on the E-mail / student newspaper project. Host school is Cape
Elizabeth HS. Russian students bring 500 dough dolls for sale here at
Christmas. |
| April |
High School exchange concludes. Exhibit of Dmitry Trubin &
Yevgeny Novasalov artwork opens at Davidson Gallery in Portland.
Committee members welcome and host 2nd Project Harmony delegation form
Ukraine. |
| May |
USAID 3-member legal delegation to Archangel. |
| June |
15 Americans travel to Archangel on People-to-People Delegation. |
| July |
Pomor Vice-Rector Goldin arrives for 8 weeks of teaching at USM.
Intern Vita Rudenko arrives for 8 weeks of instruction at Kersteen
accounting firm . UMaine Law School Professor Cluchey visits Archangel.
Archangel Duma official Yevgeny Uhin study law-drafting at USAID
Washington. Intern Slava Issaev arrives for 6 weeks of instruction
at Imageset Printing. |
| August |
Committee members staff "Bridging the World" booth at
Portland festival. Pomor Law School Dean Tatyana Zykina studies
for 2 weeks at USAID Washington/NYC |
| September |
Pomor Law School Dean Tatyana Zykina visits U. Maine Law School for
week.USAID 4-member legal delegation to Archangel. |
| October |
8 Russians travel to Maine-on People-to-People delegation.
Intern dentist Irina Varakina arrives for 4 weeks of learning in Maine /
Tufts. |
| November |
Committee members take part in public forum at Bangor Russian Weekend. |
| December |
Christmas craft and dough doll sales are excellent! |
1996 Year in
Review
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| January |
Bates College Professor James Richter speaks at our Annual
Meeting about the upcoming Russian presidential elections. |
| February |
Maine teacher Jean Souliere goes to teach at Archangel School
Number 21 for three months while Archangel teacher Nina Fedoseeva
comes to Gray-New Gloucester High School for the same period. The
recent photographic exhibition "Pearls of the Russian North" is
featured on MPBN's television show "True North". |
| March |
Archangel students and teachers arrive on the second year of the
federally funded high school exchange. |
| April |
A similar group of Maine students and chaperones arrive in
Archangel. |
| May |
Our Committee has a table at the Maine International Trade
Center's "World Trade Day" in Portland. |
| June |
Committee member Ann Munch leads' a delegation of twelve people
to Archangel, with an itinerary similar to last year's. Maine
artists Abby Huntoon and Elizabeth Margolis-Pineo are on the trip
and interact with their Archangel artistic counterparts. |
| July |
Our corporation changes official name to "The Greater
Portland-Russian Sister City Project". Several photographs taken by
Committee member Mason Smith go on display at Archangel's Mansion
House. |
| August |
We sell a significant amount of crafts at a craft sale in
Lewiston. |
| September |
Archangel student Katya Kuznetsova starts a full year of studies
at the University of Southern Maine. Our Committee meets with
several members of the Portsmouth/Severodvinsk Convection, a new
sister city group in Portsmouth NH. |
| October |
Alexander Pashovkin leads a 15 member delegation from Archangel
to Greater Portland; the delegation features artists Dmitri Trubin
and Evgeni Novoselov. Books donated by Deering High School, USM,
Annies' Book-Store,-and Cleaves County Law Library are shipped to
Pomor's English and Law Departments and to Archangel School Number
6. |
| November |
Three Committee members go to Archangel to specifically plan for
future youth initiatives. |
| December |
We participate in a fundraiser at the USM Music Department
entitled "Winter's Eve in Saint Petersburg". |
1995 Year in
Review
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| January |
At our Annual Meeting, member Mary Hall puts on a
photographic/musical program entitled "Northern Exposure - Russia"
which is based on her recent lengthy trip to the Region. |
| February |
Pomor Professor Tatiana Balandina comes to USM to study and
teach for the semester. Our Committee pairs with The Danforth Art
Gallery to present paintings of Tatiana Solodar, a 1990 immigrant
from Archangel. |
| March |
A small People-to-People Delegation to Russia includes Portland
Municipal Organist Ray Cornils who performs with Victor Ryakin in
Saint Petersburg and in Archangel. |
| April |
Pursuant to a grant from the U.S. Agency for International
Development, both Sister City Committees fully fund the High School
Exchange: students and teachers from Deering High School and
Archangel's School Number 6 are exchanged. |
| May |
Our Committee co-hosts "Rethinking Russia" at USM, a symposium
of five leading scholars on Russian business. |
| June |
Committee member Gail Pelletier leads a delegation of ten people
on a great trip to Saint Petersburg, Kizhi, Solovetsky Island,
Archangel and Moscow. The delegation hails the adventure as
"The Trip of a Lifetime". |
| July |
Our Committee enjoys another successful Rotary Craft Fair. |
| August |
Two Archangel High School students come for a year-long visit:
Lida Zamareva comes to Gray-New Gloucester High School and Natasha
Piminova comes to Deering High School. |
| September |
We sell $560 worth of crafts at the international festival "One
World Portland". |
| October |
Nineteen people from Archangel come to Maine on a
People-to-People Delegation led by Victoria Kamennaya and Vladimir
Berbenets. The Delegation presents a large Bird of Happiness to the
Portland Jetport. |
| November |
Committee members Mary Hall and Dennis Marrotte present 70
photographs collectively entitled "Pearls of the Russian North" at
the Portland Chamber of Commerce. |
| December |
We sell out half the house at the Portland Players performance
of "Ten Little Indians" in a youth exchange fundraiser. |
1994 Year in
Review
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| January |
Dr. Pavel Siderov leads a delegation of seven doctors from the
Archangel Medical Institute on a visit with their counterparts at
the Maine Medical Center in Portland. Noted Russian journalist
Vladimir Voina speaks about current Russian politics at our
Committee's Annual Meeting. |
| February |
Committee Co-Chair Ann Noyes speaks on "Maine & Russia: Cultural
Connections" at the Camden Conference focusing on the future of
Russia. |
| March |
Six Maine high school students and two chaperones leave for
study at Archangel
School Number 21. |
| April |
Deering High School in Portland hosts twelve students and two
teachers from Archangel. The Maine College of Art selects one youth
painting each from Greater Portland and Archangel for submission to
a Sister Cities International youth art contest. |
| May |
Committee member Fred Richardson attends the Sister Cities
International Conference in Moscow; he personally conveys
condolences to Lonnie Shutov, the son of the late Alexander Shutov. |
| June |
Committee members Carol Lynn Davis and Mason Smith lead a
delegation of eight Mainers on a People-to-People delegation to
Archangel. |
| July |
Committee members Carol Lestock and Nancy Trottier net $648 at
the big Rotary Craft Fair in Portland's Monument Square. |
| August |
Archangel World War II convoy veteran Valeri Kokovin and NSC
Vice-President Alexander Pashovkin arrive in Maine to
help celebrate the arrival of, Liberty Ship "Jeremiah O'Brien" into
the Port of Portland after it participated in D-Day commemorations
in France. |
| September |
The Committee has a fundraiser by showing the Russian movie
"Burnt by the Sun" at the "Movies" on Exchange Street in Portland. |
| October |
Nineteen people from Archangel tour New York City and visit
Greater Portland on a People-to-People Delegation. The group
includes Galina Komarova and Sergey Kochegarov of the Sister
City Committee, Pomor Professor Vladislav Goldin, and organist
Victor Ryakhin who gave a masterful recital on Portland's mighty
Kotzschmar Organ. |
| November |
A large exhibition of Russian and American photographs called
"Pearls of the Russian North" is held at Central Maine Power's
Augusta headquarters. |
| December |
The Committee nets $957 in craft sales at the Audubon Holiday
Bazaar. |
1993 Year in
Review
|
| January |
A large turnout of people attends our Committee's Annual Meeting
at the University of Southern Maine's Campus Center in Portland. |
| February |
Our Committee joins Sister Cities International. Several
Committee members gather to plan a cookbook of Northern Russia
recipes. |
| March |
The Archangel String Quartet comes to Maine and performs with
the Portland String Quartet in several venues, including Bates
College. The ASQ plays Hayden, Mozart and Borodin. |
| April |
Eleven Maine high school students and two chaperones spend the
month at Archangel's School Number 21. At the same time, twelve
students and two teachers from School Number 21 spend the month at
Gray-New Gloucester High School. |
| May |
Committee member Cushman Anthony personally delivers a cytoscope
to the Urology Department at the Archangel Children's Hospital, thus
fulfilling a request from the Archangel Public Safety Department. |
| June |
Eleven Mainers visit Archangel in late June and have the great
privilege of visiting the Solovetsy Islands in the White Sea. Each
of the municipalities of Greater Portland send official greetings to
Archangel on the 300th Anniversary of the Russian Marine. |
| July |
Committee members start taste testing recipes for the cookbook.
Craft sales are good at the large Portland Rotary Craft Show. Two
Committee members participate in the Camden Conference on
International Affairs. |
| August |
The Spoloki Camera Club opens a showing of photographs by Maine
photographers in the City of Kargopol. |
| September |
Photographs of Spoloki members Irina Deineko and Vladimir
Berbenets win awards at the Arthur Griffin Center for the
Photographic Arts in Winchester MA. |
| October |
Both Committees mourn the tragic and accidental death of
Alexander Shutov, Chair of the Sister City Committee in Archangel
and Vice-President of Archangel's Northern Shipping Company. |
| November |
The Committee's high-quality 143 page cookbook "Flavors of the
Russian North" is widely marketed for $9.95 per copy. |
| December |
Committee members entertain several crewmembers from an
Archangel-based merchant ship docked in Searsport, Maine. |
1992 Year in
Review
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| January |
With Russia in serious economic crisis, our Committee holds its
Annual Meeting and commits itself to a major humanitarian aid
program to provide food and medical supplies to Russia. The Portland
Rotary Club commits to being our partner in this huge project. |
| February |
The Portland String Quartet and Portland Press Herald
photographer Dave McDonald are in a group of nine Mainers who travel
to Archangel. The PSQ performs with the Archangel String Quartet. |
| March |
Archangel Pedigogical Institute (Pomor University) Professor
Nadia Vezshliotseva comes to USM to teach two community education
classes for the semester. After a large community effort, three
large ocean containers of food and medical supplies leave America
for Archangel; ocean transport is donated by Hapag-Lloyd and by
Archangel's Northern Shipping Company. |
| April |
Seven Maine high school students and two chaperones travel to
Archangel for the month, but due to Russia's economic crisis, no
Russian students come to Maine. |
| May |
After Committee members Fred Richardson and Ann Noyes travel to
Archangel to facilitate the arrival of the containers, they purchase
85 pieces of beautiful artwork and crafts from the Archangel Region
and load them into one of the emptied containers for the return trip
to Maine. The container also contains children's artwork and more
common crafts. |
| June |
A ten member People-to-People Delegation including WGAN
personality Jim Crocker travel to Archangel for City Day
festivities. Committee member Gary Davis participates in a bicycle
trek for peace from Leningrad to Archangel. |
| July |
Committee member Gail Pelletier organizes Committee craft sales
at the Annual Rotary Craft Fair and collects $2883 for funding
future high school exchanges. |
| August |
Portland Press Herald photographer Dave McDonald returns to
Archangel for more extensive exploration. |
| September |
The United States Internal Revenue Service issues its final and
permanent ruling that our Committee is a valid non-profit section
501(c)(3) corporation.- A huge art auction of the items brought back
in the container nets an amazing $ 21,746 for future high school
exchanges. The Portland Press Herald prints a full page of David
McDonald's photographs of Russia. |
| October |
Committee member Gail Pelletier nets $948 at the YMCA Craft Show
in Portland. |
| November |
A fourth Committee/Rotary medical container leaves for
Archangel. |
| December |
Committee members attend a meeting of all organizations in Maine
that have linkages with Russia and other nations in the Commonwealth
of Independent States. |
1991 Year in
Review
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| January |
Maine radio personality Jim Moran (WCLZ FM) returns from a week
of radio shows in Archangel and shares his impressions with our
Committee at the Annual Meeting. USM Professor Edna Ellis and
students Kathy Blenick and Rebecca Fredericks leave for a semester
at the Archangel Pedigogical Institute. |
| February |
A professor from the Archangel Institute of Economics and
Finance visits USM for three weeks. |
| March |
Committee members Dennis Marrotte, Ann Munch and Paul Petzholt
lead a delegation of nine Mainers to Archangel; they are treated to
a visit to historic Kargopol. |
| April |
Gray-New Gloucester High School hosts 12 students and two
chaperones from Archangel while a similar number of Mainers' visit
Archangel for a month. USM Professor Duke McKeil teaches at the
Archangel Institute of Economics and Finance for a month; he gets a
chance to visit Velsk in the southern part of the Archangel Region. |
| May |
A professor and three students return to Archangel after a
semester at USM. June - Twenty-six Mainers go to Archangel on a
People-to-People Delegation and enjoy City Day on the summer
solstice. |
| July |
A Committee fundraiser is held at Paul Petzholt's camp at
Sebago-Lake. Portland's Mad Horse Theater hosts the 17 member Victor
Panov Theater Group for two weeks of performances of "Requiem".
Although the play is in Russian, audiences are large and the
Portland Press Herald praises the work for its "hypnotic power
and vivid imagery". Also, six students and three adults travel to
Archangel for a summer camp program. |
| August |
Twelve students and three adults from Archangel come to Maine
for a summer camp program. The Portland Camera Club and the Spoloki
Camera Club put on a large display of photographs at South
Portland's Spring Point Festival. Finally, Southern Maine Technical
College student Mike Billings, who had traveled to Scotland to join
a crew of Russians on the 58 foot sailboat "Arkhangelsk" for the
long journey around Norway's North Cape, through the White Sea and
up the 'Northern Dvina River, arrived in Archangel in late August to
help commemorate the first arrival of Allied convoys into the port
in World War II. |
| September |
Archangel Regional Governor Victor Kostrimin and City mayor Alex
Ivanov join Greater Portlanders in Cincinnati for the
Soviet-American SCI Conference. |
| October |
A twenty-five member People-to-People Delegation from Archangel
visits Maine. |
| November |
Finance Professor Albert Smetanin teaches at USM for two weeks. |
| December |
Our Committee and the Portland Rotary Club meet to plan food aid
to Archangel. |
1990 Year in
Review
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| January |
University of Southern Maine professor Oliver Woshinsky and
Archangel Pedagogical Institute professor Victoria Kamennaya
exchange positions for the coming semester. |
| February |
A large package of books, photographs, letters and pins arrive
at Newfield's Line School from Archangel School Number 6. |
| March |
Twelve Maine High School students travel with two chaperones to
Archangel for the second annual month-long high school exchange.
They study at Archangel School Number 21 while 12 students and two
teachers from School Number 21 visit Maine and study at Portland
High School. |
| May |
Archangel's Spoloki Camera Club exhibits its first show of
photographs from the Portland Camera Club and committee member
Dennis Marrotte. |
| June |
Greater Portland sends a delegation of eight street theater
performers to Archangel's City Day. In addition, a large delegation
of 45 people from Archangel visit Greater Portland and focus on
historical, business and maritime themes. |
| July |
Fifteen students and two chaperones from Archangel visit Maine
for a summer camp program. |
| August |
Our Committee wins a Sister Cities International Community
Outreach Award for 1989; only 33 of 880 exchange programs are so
honored. |
| September |
The ten-member Chaika Fashion Theater visit Greater Portland and
put on several stunning shows. |
| October |
Archangel Pedagogical Institute professor Svetlana Guynutchinova
arrives at USM to teach for four weeks. The Portland Public Library
displays children's art from Archangel. |
| November |
The 24 member Jazz Group Archangel and Northern Russian Folk
Chorus tour southern Maine and perform at several locations; the
group is hosted primarily by Rex Davidson and his Jazz Band at
Dixfield High School. |
| December |
Maine radio personality Jim Moran (WCLZ FM) leaves for
Archangel. The Maine Sunday Telegram prints a full page of
photographs from Spoloki's Nicoli Chesnokov. |
1989 Year in
Review
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| April |
Archangel Mayor Stanislav Potemkin and Russian Sister City Chair
Alex Shutov lead a delegation of four from Archangel to Maine to
sign the second half of the formal Sister City agreement. This same
month, 10 high school students and 2 chaperones from Archangel visit
Greater Portland for nearly four weeks while 10 high school students
and 2 chaperones from Greater Portland visit Archangel for the same
period. |
| May |
Committee members Dan Glover, Fred Richardson and Duke McKeil
travel to Tashkent, Uzbekistan for the first meeting of Soviet and
American Sister Cities. |
| June |
Forty-seven Mainers travel to Archangel in the first
People-to-People Delegation. The delegation includes Maine chainsaw
artist Rodney Richard and Maine folksinger Anne Dodson who both
perform on the Dvina Embankment on City Day. |
| September |
Fifth-grade teacher Mike Berkowitz at the Line School in
Newfield, Maine starts pen-pal exchange with the students at
Archangel School Number 6. |
| October |
Rex Davidson leads the 24 member Dixfield Jazz Band to Archangel
where the group performs in many different venues. |
| December |
Fifth graders at the Line School and Archangel School Number 6
exchange Christmas cards. |
1988 Year in
Review
|
| January |
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service issues an advance interim
ruling that certifies the Greater Portland-Soviet Sister City
Project as a non-profit section 501(c)(3) corporation. |
| July |
The first Annual Meeting of the corporation authorizes and sends
a telex to the Mayor of the City of Archangel in northwest Russia
inviting the City to become the Sister City of Greater Portland. |
| August |
The Mayor of Archangel responds by telex and agrees to become
our Sister City. |
| November |
Founder Dan Glover and City of Westbrook Mayor Phil Spiller lead
a delegation of four Mainers to Archangel for the signing of the
first half of the formal Sister City agreement and calling for a
"permanent" relationship. |
| December |
The Westbrook American Journal newspaper is the first Maine
newspaper to endorse the project. |
1987 Year in
Review
|
| February |
The Organizing Committee of the Soviet Sister City
Committee of Greater Portland adopts its Mission Statement: "to
establish and maintain a Sister City relationship between Greater
Portland and a city in the Soviet Union" and "to gather knowledge,
develop understanding and promote peaceful interaction between our
two peoples". Dan Glover is the Founder of the project and initial
chair. |
| July |
The Organizing Committee incorporates as an official
Maine non-profit corporation under the corporate name "Greater
Portland-Soviet Sister City Project". |
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