The book that I just quoted from, the one I had bookmarked for passages about Alexander Zimin, was given to me by two remarkable people: an American, Jeremy Azrael, Executive Director of RAND, and his perennial secretary Miriam Levin. |
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Thinking of Jeremy, I cannot help but show you several more photos from the Forums over the years. I present them to you for no reason but the pleasure of remembering these meetings and looking once again at these likable faces. These are Igor Yurgens, Alexei Mordashov, Kakha Bendukhidze. |
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Remembering the businessmen that I got to know at RAND, at the Managing Bureau of RSPP, and at the sessions of Premier’s office Business Council (and those participants rather overlap), it seems to me that many of them belong to the ranks of the greatest and worthiest people that I’ve met on my already-long life journey. Although, as with all living and active people, they’re no angels. |
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Speaking about Kakha, in my archive I found photographs of later events associated with him, which I would like to show you here. |
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Later came the shameful anti-Georgian campaign. It was even more stupid and angry than the ones against America and Estonia. Air travel halted to and from Tbilisi. I saw Kakha less and less often… Georgian wines are gone from Moscow… |
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In November, 2007 I got to be present at the pompous first session of the Russian World Fund in a new (for me) building – the palace of the Intellectual Center and Fundamental Library at Moscow State University. |