'Winter/Summer School in New York' project was established by the fund 'Days of Russia' (USA) and the International Youth Diplomacy League (Russia) in 2011. The school is supported by Russian Embassy in the USA, the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, International Affairs Committee of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Consulate General of Russia in New York, Russian Trade Department in the USA, Kissinger Associates, Inc, New York Mayor and the Congress Senators from the New York State.

The school is aimed to assist young specialists in acquiring knowledge in different spheres of international practice. Each session is supposed to have a new program in accordance with participants' interests. The students get familiar with working principles of international organizations, diplomatic representations, transnational corporations, legislative and executive bodies and media groups. Practicing businessmen, heads of prosperous companies, politicians, diplomats and mass media representatives share their experience with students in the framework of the organized meetings and discussions.

During the 15 days spent in New-York, Alena met the Russian Federation Consulate General's Vice-Councel S. Logachev, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation in the United Nations V. Chyrkin, Deputy Editor-in-chief in «Associated Press» Thomas Kent, as well as visited the excursions to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, New York stock market, UN Headquarters.

There were much more interesting meetings in the school program. The participants gained wide and sufficient knowledge about international organizations, education in US, immigration problems, information exchange, business in America. They also managed to listen to lectures of the leading specialists in the sphere of finance consulting.

Look for a more detailed story of Alena's impressions about New-York in the University newspaper.

If you are interested in joining the project, please visit http://youthdiplomacy.com/ for more information.

Translated by Daria Druschinina

Corrected by Andrey Petrochenko