Alexander Torshin, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Federation Council (the upper house of Russia’s parliament) visited DC in early March. While in Washington, AFPC hosted a University Club dinner in honor of the Chairman.

As part of its two-decade tradition of organizing fact-finding missions to Russia, the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) sponsored a December 15-19 visit of senior American statesmen led by four former Under Secretaries of State: Paula Dobriansky, Robert Joseph, Richard McCormack and William Schneider.  Also joining the trip was former Assistant Secretary of Defense Mary Beth Long, as well as AFPC President  Herman Pirchner, Vice President Ilan Berman, and Senior Associate Wayne Merry.

On Monday, October 4, 2010, AFPC hosted a dinner with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.  The Kremlin’s envoy to the U.S. since 2008, Kislyak previously served as deputy minister of foreign affairs, as well as Russia’s permanent representative to NATO in Brussels

Lawrence Haas, senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, called the resolution negotiated with China and Russia a “Pyrrhic victory” for the Obama administration that will do little to achieve its aim of preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

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On Thursday, December 10th, AFPC Vice President Ilan Berman was interviewed on the Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom" program on the most recent, failed test of Russia's Bulava ICBM, and the implications for U.S.-Russian relations.

On Monday, October 5th, AFPC President Herman Pirchner, Jr. will speak at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Kennan Institute in Washington, DC on "The Uncertain Future: Sino-Russian Relations in the 21st Century."

On February 9, 2009, the American Foreign Policy Council convened a Capitol Hill conference on U.S. policy toward Russia. The high-profile event featured presentations by AFPC President Herman Pirchner, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer, former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Army War College Professor Stephen Blank, and AFPC Senior Associate E. Wayne Merry.

On Tuesday February 3, AFPC hosted a small working luncheon with Mr. Victor Suvorov. Suvorov, a former Soviet army officer who served in military intelligence, defected in 1978 to the United Kingdom. He is the author of eighteen books that have been translated into more than twenty languages. His better known works included: Inside the Aquarium: the Making of a Top Soviet Spy and Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?

The Fall 2008 issue of Demokratizatsiya, the scholarly journal of post-Soviet democratization, carried AFPC President Herman Pirchner”s 14 page article, “The Uncertain Future Sino-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century”.

On September 16, 2008, AFPC Senior Associate E. Wayne Merry spoke before the Arkansas Committee on Foreign Relations on the subject of the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia, and the future of U.S. policy in the Caucasus. His presentation was showcased the following day in a feature article by the Arkansas News Bureau.