Dear All:

Here is my report on the recent trip to Moscow.

As usual, the best news comes at the end, as a reward for your patience.

These are some of the highlights, as there were many more meetings 
and discussions that we hope will lead one day to getting new 
supporters.

My trip had three main goals.

1. Open the office of our Foundation in Moscow

2. Search for high level government support of the project

3. Raise funds

On the way to Moscow I stopped in Seattle at the invitation of John 
Schmidt, Director, Cooperative Programs and Business Development 
Russia/CIS for the Boeing Corporation.
He set a series of meetings for me there. They included Foundation 
for Russian-American Economic Cooperation (Program Manager Robbyn 
Kistler),
World Association for Children and Parents (Director for Child 
Assistance Angela Christensen) and Attorney At Law William T.Robinson.

During that sunny day in Seattle (!) I finally met Mitchell Mann, 
Senior Marketing Analyst of the Commercial Airplanes Group at the 
Boeing Corporation. He was the person who did due diligence to our 
Foundation last July and gave us his positive verdict. I am happy to 
report that Mitch agreed to join our International Advisory 
Board!!!!! This gives me true peace of mind to say nothing of our 
future donors! Mitch is a wonderful addition to our Board!
My sincere thanks to John for sparing a whole day from his busy 
schedule to accompany me to all the meetings. I really felt that we 
have got a true friend in Boeing!

1. Office in Moscow.
As you may remember the decision to open the office was taken last 
September and with your help I was able to prepare the main necessary 
documents  to start the long and painful process. Our representative 
there, the young, bright and charming Natasha Tavdumadze, did most of 
the job making sure we are on the right track. Finally 13 documents 
have been gathered, translated, notarized and submitted to the legal 
agency "Bazalt" that will take care of putting us through all the 
necessary hurdles of the process. We hope by the end of December to 
open the office in Moscow and a bank account in Vnesheconombank.

2. Government Support
The Blue prints of the future Rehabilitation Center for Children with 
Cancer and Blood Diseases in Vladivostok have been done and we paid 
for putting them together (30 people from Petersstroi worked for 4 
months, it cost us $113,000 i.e. 7% of the total Center construction 
cost of $1.5 mln). The time came to present them to the Government 
offices and seek  their support.
At the wise suggestion of our International Board Member Leonid 
Slutski and another Board member Alexander Rumyantsev, Natasha and I 
paid the following visits.

a. Federal Assembly (equivalent ofthe US Senate)
a1. Senator V.Medvedeva - Chair, Commission on International 
Technical and Humanitarian  Cooperation.

a2. Senator V.Sudarenkov - Vice-President, Parliamentary Assembly of 
the Council of Europe

a3. Senator V.Shudegov - Chairman, Committee for Science, Culture, 
Education, Public Health and Ecology

We found very sincere approval of our project and were given very 
encouraging resolutions  in written form from the senators. They 
promised their  support when the official documents will hit the 
floor of the Senate in order to include the project in the Federal 
financing program.

b. the State Duma (equivalent of Congress)
b1. Congressman N.Gerasimenko - Chairman, Committee for Health Care

b2. Congressman D.Rogozin - Chairman, Committee on International Affairs

I am happy to report that the Duma echoed the words of the Senate.

c. Ministry of Health
c1. Mr.Yu.Shevchenko - Minister. He asked many precise questions and 
showed real interest in many details of the project. His main concern 
was functioning of the Center after its construction. The Minister 
blessd the project and expressed his wish to join our International 
Advisory board. We are proud of this new member!

c2. Dr.S.Furgal- Director, Department of International Cooperation at 
the Ministry was also present at this meeting. He is now our main 
contact person at the Ministry.

d. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
d1. Mr. A.Fedotov - Deputy Minister, Personnel Divistion.
We discussed possible ways to attract sponsors who can contribute to 
our project. Mr. Fedotov is always very creative and very eager to 
help. He strongly believes in the succes of our endeavour.

d2. Mr.A.Losyukov - Deputy Minister, Asia Division .
He is our main help at the Ministry in Moscow in getting sponsors 
from Asia-Pacific countries (Korea, Japan, New Zealand). Always very 
supportive, he  responds to all our suggestions and ideas and 
actively participates in their implementation.

d3. Igor Ivanov  - Minister of Foreign Affairs (equivalent of the 
Secretary of State) signed a letter adressed to me expressing his 
sincere support of the Foundation efforts to build the Center in 
Vladivostok by uniting all the people of good will. This is a great 
honor for our Foundation that a man of his statue follows the 
development of our project and expresses his support for its 
implementation.

d4. Mr.A.Ivanov - Director, Bureau of Asia-Pacific Regional Issues.
We recieved great support from Alexander Ivanov, lots of good ideas 
how to find sponsors among his Board members and strong desire to do 
the project together.

3. Raise funds.

a. American Chamber of Commerce

a1. Mr.A.B.Somers - President. This meeting was kindly organized by 
the Vice President of Boeing S.Kravchenko. Andrew Somers impressed me 
as a very warm and caring person, wise and friendly. He immediately 
took an interest in our project and agreed to help set an office call 
with the U.S. Ambassador A.Vershbow that indeed took place next week. 
Mr.Somers accompanied me to the meeting and gave a very vafourable 
introduction to our Foundation and the Center in Vladivostok. We hope 
that the office call with the Ambassador will bring us new friends 
who will be willing to assist us. My very special thanks to Andrew 
Somers for being so generous with his time and for his sincerety and 
willingness to help. We hope for a long friendship with him.

a2. Mrs. S.Ovanesova - Legislative Advisor.
Indeed Svetlana gave us many excellent suggestions and she also 
invited us to a monthly get together of the members of the Chamber at 
the  Marriott Hotel and introduced us to some of them during that 
evening.

b. Vnesheconombank
We had a meeting with the Head of the Protocol Department 
Mr.K.Kuplyakov. Before that Mr.N.Kosov, the Deputy Chairman of the 
Board  confirmed the intent of the bank to donate  $200,000 in his 
telephone conversation with Mr.Yu.Popov, our Board member from the 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Later the secretary of Mr.N.Kosov gave 
us the name of the contact person who will be working with Natasha 
Tavdumadze to set the necessary arangements for opening the bank 
account in their bank where the donation will be transfered.

c. Embassy of the Republic of Korea
We had a very good meeting with Ambassador Chung Tae-ik who is one of 
our most devoted friends in Moscow. He made quite a few introductions 
to Korean companies for us in Moscow. Our first office call with the 
Ambassador was made possible last August thanks to Deputy Minister of 
Foreign Affairs A.Losyukov. Ambassador Chung is a very interesting 
person, lively and undertaking. He promised me to do anything he 
could to make our project a success. The world will be a happier 
place if only there will be more people like Ambassador Chung.

d. Samsung Electronics
Mr.Don-Joo Lee - Director General. He was very aware of the project 
as he had already recieved a letter about it from the Russian 
Ambassador in Seoul T.Ramishvili, who is our great supporter and my 
letters to the Headquarters of the corporation. He also heard of the 
Center from the Samsung representative in Vladivostok and the Consul 
General of the Republic of Korea there.
Mr. Don-Joo Lee promised financial support from Samsung Electronics 
as well as in-kind donations to the Center once it is built. The 
meeting was very warm and encouraging.

e. Escada
I wrote a letter to the President of Escada Mr.Wolfgang Ley with the 
description of the project and the neccessary documents explaining 
the details.  A famous TV jounalist Oksana Pushkina who is a Good 
Will Ambassador  of Escada in Russia kindly agreed to pass the letter 
to the President. We hope to hear from them soon.

f. LG Electronics
This was a very moving meeting. Mr.Byon - President of LG Electronics 
in Russia and CIS gave us outstanding news. The company decided to 
donate to Children of Russia $50,000 for the project in Vladivostok 
and $50,000 have been collected by the employees of the company in 
Korea and Russia to help the construction of the Center. This special 
kind of donation can not be recieved without tears of immense 
gratitude!
We are planning a ceremony of recieving the check from the top people 
of LG Electronics at the Russian Embassy in Seoul. Russian Ambassador 
to the Republic of Korea T.Ramishvili was also moved by this gesture 
and offered the use of the Embassy for the ceremony.

While in Moscow Natasha Tavdumadze and I had several very good 
working meetings with  the Social Innnovations  Foundation, its Vice 
President Artur Rean. We signed an Agreement on Cooperation as 
partners with the goal to work together in helping Russian children. 
We value this friendship and hope for many years of fruitful work 
together.

We finalized the agreement with FBK (Finance and Banking Consultants) 
that was signed by both Partners of the company, Elena Proskurnya and 
Sergei Shapiguzov. According to the agreement FBK will be executing 
auditing functions to make sure the donated funds were used as 
intended. We are very grateful to the staff of the company for 
working hard with us to make this agreement a reality.

We had meetings with our International Advisory Board members Yuri 
Popov, Gennadi Gerasimov, Leonid Slutsky, Alexander Rumyantsev and 
Eleonora Mitofanova.

We were fortunate that Dr.L.Minkina from Vladivostok was in Moscow at 
that time, so we had a chance to brief her on the developments and 
also to hear her report on the situation in Vladivostok.

Our friendship with the UN Information Center in Moscow continues and 
is getting stronger. Its Director Alexander Gorelik is a very 
engaging person with interesting ideas, initiative and good heart.

We spent quite a bit of time putting together a new bilingual 
brochure of Children of Russia. Great help has been provided to us by 
Gennadi Gerasimov and my artist friend there Slava Davidov. We are 
confident this is going to be a very nice and professional new 
brochure.

Fashion designer Natasha Drigant opened her own Fashion house in 
Moscow and impressed us with quite a talent in haute couture. She is 
still working on the next summer collection based on the lively 
drawings on the children from Vladivostok.

Our new incoming Vice-President Steen Winther suggested that while in 
Moscow I meet with his brother Henrick, who is the manager of several 
chains of affordable restaurants (like Friday's) in Moscow. Natasha 
and I met Henrick and his lovely wife Julia and were pleasantly 
surprised how perfect his russian was. He is quite  an accomplished 
and serious businessman (a member of the American Chamber of Commerce 
Board), loves Russia and its people, very creative in his 
undertakings and both of them have big hearts.
We hope this first meeting is the beginning of a long friendship with 
many encounters to come. Thank you, Steen!

One of the greatest artists and sculpturors of Russia Zurab Tsereteli 
agreed to donate one of his angel sculptures for our Center. It will 
be installed after the completion of the Center in front of the 
Parents Home, our children will get their own Guardian Angel.

We had a very interesting encounter with the Miss Russia Enterprise, 
its President N.Kostin and its Vice President Marina. They offered 
Miss Russia Svetlana Koroleva to be the face and promoter of our 
Foundation in general and of the project in Vladivostok in 
particular. We still have to figure out how we can go about it, but 
it was a very generous and sincere offer. If you have any 
suggestions, please let us know.

This ends my long report and I hope it will provoke new initiatives 
from all of you that will bring us a series of new donations to 
ensure the successful construction of our Center.

Aloha,

natasha