John P. McDonough, Secretary of State     ~     Brian R. Moe, Deputy Secretary of State

Leningrad Region/City of St. Petersburg, Russia
A delegation of Russian municipal leaders spent 1 week in Rockville, Maryland learning from their Maryland counterparts. ~ Click on photos for full size.
• Our Russian friends enjoy our balmy November weather. Posing from left to right are Tatyana Smolina, Konstantin Polnov, Marina Timofeyeva, Vladimir Dernov, German Tereshkin, and Aleksey Koltzov.

Click to read “Russian leaders ‘impressed' with American municipal government” by Nathan Carrick, staff writer at Gazette.net

• Tatyana Smolina, the delegation’s facilitator, and Gene Counihan, Chair of the Maryland Leningrad Sister State Program’s Local and State Government Committee, pose together in the Embassy of the Russian Federation.