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RUSSIAN and U.S. politicians, diplomats, business figures, and scholars gathered in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, on May 21-22, 2018, for a conference that was part of Fort Ross Dialogue, a project involving annual international conferences on Russian-American relations. The 2018 conference was overseen by the Russian Foreign Ministry's Interdepartmental Working Group for Preserving Russian Historical and Cultural Heritage in the United States. The group was set up in 2017 as a consultative body in the coordination of efforts to strengthen Russian-American cultural ties and in organizing support for the conservation of Russia-related memorial and cultural sites in the United States.
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