Civil G8 - Russian NGO site in English & Russian

At the NGO initiative there was created National Working Group of the Civil G8 project in Russia. The main aim of the nongovernmental organizations who launched this "Civil G8-2006" project is to preserve the most positive, achieved during the previous years in the sphere of interaction with the Group of Eight (G8) and to try to put this interaction to a new level. The "Civil G8-2006" is meant for discussion of the issues on the agenda of the G8 Summit by the civil society organizations' representatives from various countries as well as by those interested from business and governmental spheres. The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has expressed his readiness to develop the dialogue with the Russian and international civil society during the Russian presidency.