International Partnership Festival Caps Six-Year Program
From July 17-18, the USAID-supported Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation (FRAEC), hosted its final International Partnership Festival, marking the end of a USAID-funded six-year program to support U.S.-Russian and Russian-Russian non-commercial partnership projects addressing a broad range of social and economic issues in the Russian Far East.
Held in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the festival was attended by partner organizations from the Magadan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin, Buryatia and Moscow regions. U.S. participants represented the West Coast cities of Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco. The event provided opportunities for partners to network and to share project results with each other and the public. The International Partnership Festival demonstrated the broad range of U.S. Government assistance programs active in the Russian Far East, including programs addressing local governance, maternal and child health and the City Links Alaska partnership program.
The event was supported by both U.S. and Russian officials, including Tom Armbruster, in-coming Consul General in Vladivostok, Vadim Rokotov of the Sakhalin Region Administration and Andrei Lobkin, Mayor of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The partners pledged to continue working together and, with FRAEC's assistance, to support the network of 127 U.S. and Russian organizations established under the program.
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| Participants at the International Partnership Festival |
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