John P. McDonough, Secretary of State ~ Brian R. Moe, Deputy Secretary of State
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A delegation of Russian municipal leaders spent 1 week in Rockville, Maryland learning from their Maryland
counterparts. ~ Click on photos for full size. |
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• 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
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• 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. |
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