News
05.18.2010
"0yster River
HS renews high school exchange with Severodvinsk"
English Gymnasia #14 in
Severodvinsk, the only one of its kind in the city, has only had one
exchange with Oyster River HS and Portsmouth HS under State Dept.
Grant '01-'03.
In March of
'09 students from this school made a special visit to Oyster
River HS lead by our friends Katya Boikova and Lyudmila
Ermolina. The visit was a final goodwill gesture by out-going Mayor
Alexander Beliaev who secured funding for the trip. But we
thought that was the end of it since ORHS was about to start a new
exchange with a school in Novgorod and Portsmouth HS expressed
disinterest.
05.16.2010
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05.12.2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Alex Herlihy
(603) 997 6742
alexherlihy@comcast.net
Gulag to Tribal ‘Stans
Two Local
Authors to Discuss New Books
PORTSMOUTH, NH – Two Seacoast authors will discuss neglected
aspects of 20th century Russian history – the impact of
Stalin’s Gulag and the influence of tribalism – at a forum Monday
May 24, 6:30 PM in the Levenson Room of the Portsmouth Library.
The program is organized by the Portsmouth/Severodvinsk Connection (
In “Violence, Veils and Bloodlines: Reporting from War Zones,”
veteran foreign correspondent Louis J. Salome of Portsmouth looks at
how perceptions of self, family and tribe affect world conflicts,
including the former Soviet Union states of Central Asia. The book,
published this spring by McFarland, is “a delightful and insightful
guide (by) one of the best of a dwindling breed of adventurous
foreign correspondents,” according to Doug Struck, a formerly
Washington Post and Baltimore
Sun correspondent.
The book is enriched by Salome’s understanding of tribalism under
his own roof.
"Children of the Gulag,” by
Published this year by Yale University Press, the book was
co-authored by Semyon Vilensky, a Gulag survivor and member of
The Portsmouth/Severodvinsk Connection, united by the large
submarine shipyards in both cites, was established in 1994 at the
urging of Greenpeace, with the hope that citizen to citizen contact
could help resolve some of the post-Cold War issues. More than 180
09.06.2009
PSC to host it's second Open World delegation
The PSC will host its second Open World delegation funded by the
Library of Congress from Oct 10-18. Five Russian environmentalists
and one facilitator from the Severodvinsk and Archangelsk region
will visit the Portsmouth and surrounding areas to learn about
recycling, waste disposal, nuclear waste issues and many other
environmental efforts in this region. If interested in meeting and
talking to them, contact the PSC by writing -
alexherlihy@comcast.net
06.28.2008
Portsmouth
delegation
to
visit
70th
anniversary of Severodvinsk,
Russia
Plans are almost complete for the visit of our delegation of five
members to Severodvinsk in July to help celebrate the city's 70th
anniversary. The group will leave July 21st arriving in Severodvinsk
on the 23rd (the official celebration takes place July 25-27)
They leave Severodvinsk on the July, 30th by train for St.
Petersburg where they will stay until they return home on Aug. 4th.
After that point we will organize a party to hear about their visit
and see their pictures.
The delegation consists of:
Lou Salome - Veteran newspaper reporter, who covered the Soviet Union.
Betsy Kimball - Russian speaker and traveler and educator.
Roland Goodbody - UNH special collections archivist, actor and host of
WUNH's Ceili show.
Nicloe Kimball - Who visited Severodvinsk twice in 2001 and 2003 under
the student exchange.
Paul Josephson
- Who you all know and who helped the group with the travel plans.
06.28.2008
Pending visit from
students & teachers of Severodvinsk, Russia
Looking to the future, we can expect a
visit sponsored by the Severodvinsk city goverment and some business
people of a group of 8 students and 2 teachers next spring for ten
days; they will be staying with hosts from Oyster River HS in
Durham, Lee and Madbury, but will be spending a lot of time in
Portsmouth.
06.28.2008
PSC applies for
second "Open Word" grant!
As for Open World program, we will be
applying for a grant again to host a delegation next year, possibly
environmentalists.
