Она еще вернется!
Feb. 29th, 2016 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urpflanzeВот так сама Ш.Теннисон описывает свой контакт с ФМС(http://ccisf.org/st-petersburg-moscow-volgograd-february-2016/). Ни слова не пишет о судебном процессе и наложенном штрафе, зато поминает, что известила об инциденте В.Познера и Е.Гонтмахера..
"Ted visited the huge Motherland statue on Mamaev Hill and the Panorama of WWII. He then took a helicopter ride over the city. Hard to believe that millions of souls perished over these few square miles in 1942-43.
We attended a packed Volgograd Rotary Club at noon on Feb. 16th.
While I was addressing the club, three unknown Russians with a video camera showed up saying they wanted an interview. Quickly it developed into their insistence I and Ted to come with them to the city’s Immigration offices. Their charge? We had the wrong kind of visas (mine had been used for 2.5 years with no problems). We took it in stride, were whizzed away in separate cars and ended up in an old Soviet building where the halls were lined with many youthful Asians sitting on the floors/asleep on chairs, perhaps waiting for immigration papers? The investigation took some four hours during which thumb, finger and palm prints of both hands were taken. (I looked like I’d fallen hands-first in a tar pit!) Finally the goo came off. In the process, we began friendly discussions with the three men and two women who were carrying out our investigation. Soon I was kindly joking with them in my inadequate Russian language. It’s a long story but not sinister at all. By the end we were shaking hands and smiling at each other as we parted around 9 pm. Looking back it turned out to be interesting and fun. Fortunately, we had a copy of my book in Russian language with us — and gave it to the person taking our history. We were then released to the Rotarians waiting for us outside in the cold night. Soon we were on our way to a delightful Russian restaurant, Greta (owned by CCI Fellow, Oxanna Malashkina), where a tableful of us gathered to try to figure out what had happened and why.
The next morning I got an email from Inna Schabina in Moscow, saying she’d seen on TV that we had been picked up and arrested. Journalists took the opportunity to fashion a sensational article saying that I had the wrong visa, that I worked for U.S. State Department (wrong), was funded by them (wrong) and that I had a long history that included NGO anti-Russia activities!!! (super wrong). I chuckled at the charges, sent a request for a meeting at the San Francisco Russian Consulate upon arrival back at SF, apprised Vladimir Pozner and Evgeny Gontmakher by email and continued my day including drafting this letter to you.
Later I learned this happened just prior to Feb 19 when numerous other foreign NGOs around the country were called in for questioning regarding their “anti-Russia” work. Some of the most egregious were closed down. Apparently the interviewers in our case decided we were Americans of goodwill just trying to find a way to build bridges with Russian citizens.
Tomorrow we fly to Moscow, catch a plane to St. Petersburg, then a Finnair plane to JFK and home to San Francisco."
"Ted visited the huge Motherland statue on Mamaev Hill and the Panorama of WWII. He then took a helicopter ride over the city. Hard to believe that millions of souls perished over these few square miles in 1942-43.
We attended a packed Volgograd Rotary Club at noon on Feb. 16th.
While I was addressing the club, three unknown Russians with a video camera showed up saying they wanted an interview. Quickly it developed into their insistence I and Ted to come with them to the city’s Immigration offices. Their charge? We had the wrong kind of visas (mine had been used for 2.5 years with no problems). We took it in stride, were whizzed away in separate cars and ended up in an old Soviet building where the halls were lined with many youthful Asians sitting on the floors/asleep on chairs, perhaps waiting for immigration papers? The investigation took some four hours during which thumb, finger and palm prints of both hands were taken. (I looked like I’d fallen hands-first in a tar pit!) Finally the goo came off. In the process, we began friendly discussions with the three men and two women who were carrying out our investigation. Soon I was kindly joking with them in my inadequate Russian language. It’s a long story but not sinister at all. By the end we were shaking hands and smiling at each other as we parted around 9 pm. Looking back it turned out to be interesting and fun. Fortunately, we had a copy of my book in Russian language with us — and gave it to the person taking our history. We were then released to the Rotarians waiting for us outside in the cold night. Soon we were on our way to a delightful Russian restaurant, Greta (owned by CCI Fellow, Oxanna Malashkina), where a tableful of us gathered to try to figure out what had happened and why.
The next morning I got an email from Inna Schabina in Moscow, saying she’d seen on TV that we had been picked up and arrested. Journalists took the opportunity to fashion a sensational article saying that I had the wrong visa, that I worked for U.S. State Department (wrong), was funded by them (wrong) and that I had a long history that included NGO anti-Russia activities!!! (super wrong). I chuckled at the charges, sent a request for a meeting at the San Francisco Russian Consulate upon arrival back at SF, apprised Vladimir Pozner and Evgeny Gontmakher by email and continued my day including drafting this letter to you.
Later I learned this happened just prior to Feb 19 when numerous other foreign NGOs around the country were called in for questioning regarding their “anti-Russia” work. Some of the most egregious were closed down. Apparently the interviewers in our case decided we were Americans of goodwill just trying to find a way to build bridges with Russian citizens.
Tomorrow we fly to Moscow, catch a plane to St. Petersburg, then a Finnair plane to JFK and home to San Francisco."
