On July, 25-29, 2007 Kazan with working trip was visited by the preceptor in Slavic languages and East European studies at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA) Сurt F. Woolhiser, accompanied by student intern from Harvard Robert Jellinek.

The goal during this pilot trip was to build a network of contacts at government institutions, research institutes, universities and nongovernmental organizations which will facilitate the organization of a Harvard-sponsored annual summer study tour of former Soviet republics for advanced-level students of Russian specializing in political science, sociology and anthropology.

            Сurt Woolhiser and Robert Jellinek                                     Сurt Woolhiser with employees of KIF

           in the Kazan Institute of federalism