Примерно в это же время Сандерс начал переговоры с Ярославлем об установление статуса городов-побратимов. В 1988 он поедет в Ярославль на свой медовый месяц.
In December 1987, the records show, Mr. Sanders spoke by phone with Yuri Menshikov, the secretary of the Soviet sister-city organization in Moscow. In a follow-up letter later that month, Mr. Sanders said he had received word that Yaroslavl would be an ideal partner. He proposed leading a Burlington delegation to Yaroslavl to lay the foundation for a sister-city relationship. He suggested arriving on May 9 - the day that the Soviet Union celebrated its victory over Nazi Germany - and said he was especially interested in discussing economic development, the police, winter street cleaning, libraries, and plumbing and sewer systems. “We are living through an amazing time, and I believe I am lucky to play a role in such a time,” Mr. Sanders wrote, according to a Russian version of his letter. The visit to Yaroslavl was eventually scheduled for early June, after Mr. Sanders’s 12-person delegation visited Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Mr. Sanders has referred to the trip as a “very strange honeymoon.” Just before leaving, he had married his longtime partner, Jane O’Meara Driscoll, the director of the Youth Office in Burlington City Hall, in a televised outdoor ceremony on the shore of Lake Champlain. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/bernie-sanders-soviet-russia.html
12 декабря 1987 Берни Сандерс, мэр Берлингтона, выпустил с местными музыкантами кассетный альбом “We Shall Overcome” https://jamesnapoli.atavist.com/we-shall-overcome
Примерно в это же время Сандерс начал переговоры с Ярославлем об установление статуса городов-побратимов. В 1988 он поедет в Ярославль на свой медовый месяц.
In December 1987, the records show, Mr. Sanders spoke by phone with Yuri Menshikov, the secretary of the Soviet sister-city organization in Moscow. In a follow-up letter later that month, Mr. Sanders said he had received word that Yaroslavl would be an ideal partner. He proposed leading a Burlington delegation to Yaroslavl to lay the foundation for a sister-city relationship.
He suggested arriving on May 9 - the day that the Soviet Union celebrated its victory over Nazi Germany - and said he was especially interested in discussing economic development, the police, winter street cleaning, libraries, and plumbing and sewer systems.
“We are living through an amazing time, and I believe I am lucky to play a role in such a time,” Mr. Sanders wrote, according to a Russian version of his letter.
The visit to Yaroslavl was eventually scheduled for early June, after Mr. Sanders’s 12-person delegation visited Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Mr. Sanders has referred to the trip as a “very strange honeymoon.” Just before leaving, he had married his longtime partner, Jane O’Meara Driscoll, the director of the Youth Office in Burlington City Hall, in a televised outdoor ceremony on the shore of Lake Champlain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/bernie-sanders-soviet-russia.html
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