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The Friendship Society of Washington, DC
The Friendship Society of Washington, D.C. will begin to send to its friends and aquaintainces new information about places, items, and people who we as friends would recommend to other friends as worthwhile items of information that may be useful for some people or their friends. Placing an ad on The Friendship Pages is tax-deductible and is used directly to help support the Friendship Society. The Friendship Society is International in nature, many of our members are from all over the world.
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Non-Profit Announcements:
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The Eurasia Center
presents:
Avoiding a New Cold War:
Managing US-Russian Relations
A Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bomber flew over a U.S. military base on Guam last Wednesday, renewing operations from the Cold War...
At The EURASIA CENTER
1800 Connecticut Avenue, NW 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20009
Wednesday
August 22nd from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
The Eurasia Center is arranging this important foreign policy seminar and reception for those people interested in the US-Russian Relations. Give the current state of relations between Russia and America, this relationship is one of the most important foreign policy relationship which will determine the future of our world.
Dr. Harley Balzer, Georgetown University, Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs and an Associate Faculty Member of the Department of History at Georgetown University. From 1987 to August 1991 he served as Director of the University's Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. He is currently completing work on three major projects. One is a comparative analysis of Russian and Chinese integration with the global economy. The second, focusing on current Russian political conditions, is tentatively titled "Russia's Democratic Dilemmas: Putin, Population and Petroleum." The third deals with financing higher education in The Russian Empire, the USSR, and the Russian Federation, with the working title "State-Private Partnerships in Russian Higher Education: Historical Models and Current Policy."
Dr. Gerard Janco, Founder and President of the Eurasia Center. He is an expert in Eurasian affairs, founded The Eurasia Center in 1988 as The Center for Soviet-American Relations. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the name was changed to The Center for American-Eurasian Studies and Relations. Dr. Janco is a credentialed expert in international security and political affairs having earned a double Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and the University of Geneva, Switzerland, has a Masters Degree in National Security Studies from George Washington University. He has worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the United States Congress, at the United States Institute of Peace, and for the Atlantic Council of the United States.
An official from the Embassy of the Russian Federation has been invited to discuss these important issues as well.
We welcome those who wish to come and discuss perhaps the most important foreign policy relationship of our time. The presentation will be followed by a caviar reception with drinks and all the flavors from these regions.
with drinks and Russian Traditional Caviar hor d'oeuvres
Sponored by: ZVODKA Zhitomirska Vodka
Men $15, Women $10, Couples $20, Members $10
Please try to RSVP to eurasiaevents@aol.com
(entrance donation is tax-deductible)
For those interested in volunteering for the Friendship Society events or if you have other friends who may be interested in our events, please email the information to friendsocietydc@aol.com or to have a friend be placed on our list.
If you are interested in Donating a Car for charitable purposes, please consider donating your car to the Eurasia Center. We are in need a car to use for non-profit purposes and can give you a tax-deductible write-off for the full blue-book value of the car. Please email to eurasiacenter1@cs.com any offers or questions you may have.
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