U.S. - Russia Business Summit

The Russian-American business summit. Barack Obama's first official visit to Russia. Presidents acted: Russia - Dmitry Medvedev and the USA - Barack Obama. In the performances of the head of both states, in particular, have thanked the Russian-American business community for the invitation to a forum, and also have expressed firm confidence of fast Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. The Russian funds «Eurasias» and «New Eurasia» which council includes the vice-president of the Russian union of industrialists and businessmen Igor Jurgens, with assistance of the Washington Center of strategic and international researches (CSIS) became the organizer of a meeting. Among invited from the Russian side – a remedial society «Memorial», regional НКО «from Ural Mountains and the Volga region», with American, besides other, – remedial groups Human Rights First, Freedom House and parent organization HRW. At first meetings five working lexical sets have been held: «Human rights and legality », «the Press and new mass-media» , «Public health services» , «Social development» and «the Youth policy». Also questions of accessible habitation and environment protection were brought up. In the second day of work «the general wide forum» on which there were presidents has taken place. Legal experts and representatives of other organizations of a civil society have prepared the recommendations for this time to heads of the states.