In mid-July, DOD Defense Science Board Chairman William Schneider and American Foreign Policy Council President Herman Pirchner, Jr. traveled to Moscow as part of the ongoing Russian-American Dialogue program. There they met with Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov, the head of the Duma committee on international affairs Konstantin Kosachev, and the head of the committee on CIS affairs Anfrei Kokoshin. Meeting participants included political luminaries such as former president Boris Yeltsin’s chief of staff Sergei Filatov, perestroika architect Alexander Yakovlev and former Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh. The group also met with Russian Security Council Deputy Head Nikolai Spassky.