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Fri, Jun 01 - Thu, Aug 30 2018

Russia America Unity,

Moscow, Russian Federation Moscow, Russian Federation

  • About the event

    With relations between the United States and Russia at an all-time low, "citizen diplomacy" is needed now more than ever. This entails citizens from opposing countries traveling to those countries to meet with other citizens and officials to discuss problems and ideas for possible solutions. This has the added benefit of showing both sides that we are all human beings regardless of political conflicts.

    The Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI) has been helping Russian and American citizens (and even Mikhail Gorbachev) to meet since the 1980s. Now that a new Cold War is brewing with potentially catastrophic consequences, CCI is bringing back their citizen diplomacy program. This summer they will be making multiple trips to Russia with US citizens to conduct these meetings. Although the more famous sites in Russia are on the itinerary, this is strictly an investigative trip, not tourism.

    I have been fortunate enough to have dated a Russian woman and corresponded with many people from that vast country and I know them to be warm, friendly people who do not understand why our countries are becoming increasingly hostile. They are just as frightened of this situation as we are. I have since been studying Russian history and culture and joined CCI as a member in the hopes of traveling with them to Russia as a citizen diplomat while we still have a chance to turn this disastrous course around.

    The trip will be an expensive one, around $4,000 per person so that is what I am hoping to raise in order to be able to participate and use my voice to do my part for peace. While there I will be your eyes and ears on the ground. If you have any questions, concerns or messages of goodwill for the Russian people, I can pass those along for you. All of our meetings will be recorded and posted on the CCI website. I am also a writer and will be writing and speaking on my experience and the matter of US/Russia relations. Donors will receive my personal thanks in these presentations. The exact dates for the summer trips are not known but all money donated will be given to CCI to cover my expenses.

    Why should you sponsor?

    The future of our country, our children and very likely our planet depends on peaceful relations between the United States and Russia. As important as these trips have always been they are even more critical now than ever. We must all do what we can to ensure that we have a future.

    I studied bears in Alaska independently for many years and worked with them as a trainer at an orphaned cub sanctuary. That inspired me to start writing on the subject of human/bear coexistence and those writing skills will serve me well in tackling the importance of this subject, which I plan to do an extensive amount of writing on. I have written a book titled "Where the Bear Walks", an educational blog by the same name, and half a dozen articles so I do have writing skill and experience.


    Chris Nunnally

    I was born and raised in rural Alabama but struck out for Alaska and Montana at the first opportunity. There I developed an interest in bears, trained grizzlies in captivity, became an independent naturalist and started writing on the subject. In the course of these adventures I dated a Russian woman who got me hooked on Russian culture, history and food and set me off on my new path.

    In my free time I enjoy hiking, camping, electronic music, craft beer and world cinema.

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I will be your eyes and ears on the ground in Russia. Any questions or concerns (or messages of goodwill from the US to the Russian people) I will be there to offer for you. The meetings will be documented and posted on the CCI website. I will also be writing and speaking about the trip and the importance of good relations between the US and Russia and will personally thank each of you in these presentations. If there are any other package suggestions you may have or prefer, please feel free to ask.

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