Let's give You our invitations from Russian Fund for support of compatriots abroad "Compatriot and Motherland". 
We inform You that on the Fund's basis the complex of actions, devoted to the development of economic relations between Russian businessmen and compatriots from different countries, will take place at the year 2003. 

We consider that national and economic revival of Russia can't occur without its integration to world's economic community, without tight ties of all compatriots from our common motherland independently from their nowadays place of living. 

Fund "Compatriots and Motherland" invites Your firm (organization, association) to take part at the Business Forum "Compatriot and Motherland: Russia and diasporas (economic projects) " for the developing and strengthening of such cooperation.

This action will take place at Zermatt, October 2003 (Switzerland). Its aim is the construction and development of reliable long-term contacts with representatives from Russian-speaking diasporas. Also our goal consists in finding common interests and possibility of their realization by real bargains or preparation of common projects.

There is a serious interest nowadays to the assistance from our compatriots abroad to the penetration of Russian business to the international markets of the globe. Such partners permit not only widen, specify and deepen our performances about specific of these or those foreign markets, but also help us avoid typical errors at economic activity, presence of which consist in absence of Russians partners corresponding international business experience. 

We suppose, that our agreement to Your participation at Forum and Fund's activity will have for You real interest. We hope, that realization of Forum will promote Your ideas and production at international markets by the help of "diasporas entry".

In its activity Fund follows the Conception of Russian Federation's support to the compatriots abroad at the modern stage. V.V.Putin signed this Conception at his edict from August 30, 2001.
Our Fund was founded in October 2001 by the initiative of some public organizations and representatives of culture (popular artists М.А.Uljanov and N.А.Petrov, deputy of Statу Duma S.S.Govoruhin, honored representative of art S.I.Bjelza and others).

The participants of our Fund are: holding "Oil alliance", Russian cardiologists Association, "Rus-Farma" company, "Imperio Trast" company, Association of businessmen "Compatriots", "Renaissance Insurance" company, Schchikinazot Ltd, Tulskoe OKBA Ltd, Brizbank.
There are members from the Fund's Board of Trustees: Ministry of Education of Russian Federation; The Ministry of Press, TV, Radio and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation; "Prosveshcheniye" Unitary State Publishing House.

The idea of organization the Business Forum "Compatriot and Motherland: Russia and diasporas (economic projects)" was supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation, Russian Center of International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (RCISCC). Nowadays Fund leads active preparatory-organizational work with Department of Administration by the President of Russian Federation, Government's Commission of Russian Federation and with many others, but also very important at that sphere of activity Russian and foreign commercial, politic and public organizations. 
Zermatt's Forum will organize the series of actions by the following directions :

• economic;
• cultural;
• sportive. 
  

The participant's list of Forum's economic program is quick replenishing now by new candidates. Final list would be prepared after passing consultations at the nearest time. It can be sent by Your inquiry. 
We suppose that the creation of tight ties between our Fund and Your Firm (organization, union, association) would be very useful during the preparation for such significant action.

Yours truly, 
Chairman I.А.Sokolov