Retired from the US Information Agency, Richmond has drawn on his years of service overseas to write about cross-cultural communications. Here he advises visitors to the US on peculiarities they are l
Some fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, gove
There is much discussion these days about Public Diplomacy – communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats – but little information about what it actual
The fourth edition of this guide to understanding Russian culture has been revised to include recent events such as the Georgian invasion of 2008, policy changes since 2003 and new developments in thi
The U.S.-USSR Cultural Agreement signed at the Geneva summit in 1985 signalled the resumption of a broad range of cultural exchanges suspended in 1980 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Mr. Ric
Intercultural communications specialist Richmond, a veteran of the US Foreign Service; and African affairs specialist Gestrin, a veteran of UNICEF and USAID, offer a guide for people who will be going
