U.S. to Host Russians for a Look at Democracy; Library of Congress Plan to Host 2,000 Officials Termed Unprecedented in Scope

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 20, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

About 2,000 local and national officials from Russia will visit the United States during August and September in a $10 million program to show them how American democracy and civil society work, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced in Moscow yesterday.

The effort, whose scope is apparently unprecedented, was first proposed 13 months ago by Billington, a scholar of Russian culture and history. He called for the U.S. government to bring "a genuinely large number of young Russians--the entire cohort of young leaders . . . especially from the provinces" to observe American life and ...

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