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| − | The '''Chicago Center for US-USSR Relations and Exchanges'''... | + | The '''Chicago Center for US-USSR Relations and Exchanges''' is the sponsor of the sister city program between Chicago, USA and Kiev, USSR. |
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| + | ==About== | ||
| + | In an article by [[Marianna Liss] in [[The Ukranian Weekly]], published on August 9, 1987, the involvement of the Center with the Chicago/Kiev sister city project was discussed: | ||
| + | :''"The international sister city movement seeks to bring about world harmony through trade and cultural exchanges between towns of diverse countries. Ironically, the effort to make Chicago and Kiev into sister cities has become controversial. Both the Jewish and Ukrainian communities have been highly critical of the program which is sponsored by the Chicago Center for US-USSR Relations and Exchanges, aimed at bringing the two municipalities together. Officials in Kiev, on the other hand, ahve been eager to court Chicago. One Kievan bureaucrat admitted that Chicago would be a feather in their cap."''<ref>[http://www.scribd.com/doc/16320153/The-Ukrainian-Weekly-198732 Ukrainian Weekly, page 9]</ref> | ||
==Board of Directors== | ==Board of Directors== | ||
Revision as of 04:17, 20 April 2010
The Chicago Center for US-USSR Relations and Exchanges is the sponsor of the sister city program between Chicago, USA and Kiev, USSR.
About
In an article by [[Marianna Liss] in The Ukranian Weekly, published on August 9, 1987, the involvement of the Center with the Chicago/Kiev sister city project was discussed:
- "The international sister city movement seeks to bring about world harmony through trade and cultural exchanges between towns of diverse countries. Ironically, the effort to make Chicago and Kiev into sister cities has become controversial. Both the Jewish and Ukrainian communities have been highly critical of the program which is sponsored by the Chicago Center for US-USSR Relations and Exchanges, aimed at bringing the two municipalities together. Officials in Kiev, on the other hand, ahve been eager to court Chicago. One Kievan bureaucrat admitted that Chicago would be a feather in their cap."[1]
Board of Directors
As at May 13, 1988, the following served on the Board of Directors of the Center:[2]
External links
References
- ↑ Ukrainian Weekly, page 9
- ↑ Letter from Richard Cooper of CCUURE to Rose Jennings and Buzz Palmer, May 13, 1988